‘One Life to Live’ star Kassie DePavia recalls ‘gut punch’ of soap’s cancellation

It’s been more than a decade for A life to live finished his 43 -year -old race on ABC, and star Kassie Depavia still feels the bite.

“It was a punch,” Depavia told Remind magazine on Tuesday. The original actress and singer of Kentucky, 64, played on day soap as a 1993 Blair Cramer until her cancellation in 2012, and in 2013, resumed her role during the few months of the Production Park production company tried to relaunch the program as a 30 -minute daily web series. Loved for her fiery and unpredictable personality, wild scenarios and his controversial relationships with characters played by Roger Howarth and James Depavia, which she married in 1996.

A life to live Provided that a regular house has a rare thing for an actor who works – for two decades. It was not only that ABC canceled the series, but how she was canceled that injured her.

“We were brought to the scene of The viewand it was A life to live And All my childrenWe were fully expecting them to do the announcement that All my children was canceled, but then they did both and it was just horrible, “recalls Depavia.” And then we had to return to the set and the work, and I just remember going down in my dressing room and calling my mother. It was really sad, and it was so weird that he was canceled. It was going so well and our figures were really good. I didn’t understand it and I missed it. I had to cry. It took me two years to overcome this, to cry this loss. “”

As Blair, Depavia had endured things that most of the actors could not even imagine in a role: surviving a brush with Irish terrorists, giving birth after surviving a car accident, shooting a lover and covering the crime with another. But the loss of A life to live He himself was brutal.

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However, Depavia considers herself “a lucky and lucky girl to enter this part”, and her career continued to flourish after the closing of the history book on this chapter in the history of soap. She even obtained recognition from the Emmy for her role as Eve Donovan, on which she played Days of our lives From 2014 to 2010, and again in 2023.

Even harder than leaving Oltl Briefly replied his character to help his old flame successfully move to a new soap.

“When A life to live finished and they took me to General hospital For these three or four days to break Todd and Blair so that Todd can be with Carly, it was the most heartbreaking thing I have ever done, “said Depavia.

Like Depavia, Howarth has resumed her character in the short term Oltl Web revival. But before that, his character crossed the great divide into soap General hospitalAnd Depavia was exploited to help facilitate the transition by turning a breaking scene on several episodes.

“I felt that I had worked 20 years to build this brand, and you will give me three days to be upset in Todd, and that will be that? It would never happen. Not in a million years. So, it was difficult,” she explained.

Depavia had the chance to play Blair once again, when in 2023, General hospital invited the actress to a guest location as a blair.