Kiele Sanchez spoke to HollywoodReporter.com about her miscarriage. The actress and her husband-actor Zach Gilford announced on October 9, 2015, that they had lost their baby.
Sanchez said that her return to the Kingdom series and her decision to write the ordeal into Kingdom’s storyline, has helped her heal. “It was a few weeks after losing my pregnancy. I was in New York and was supposed to start shooting the next season of Kingdom in a few weeks. I couldn’t imagine it. The amount of pain I felt consumed me. Every day it bit at me. Chewed on me. Swallowed me. I felt heavy and hollow. I got a call from Byron Balasco, the creator of the show. He said, ‘I love you. I’m sorry. How are you?’ I said, ‘I’m hopeless. I’m infinitely sad. I’m on the ground’. He said, ‘I haven’t written a word. I’ll do whatever you want’, and something inside me twisted. We had filmed the last season with my character, Lisa, pregnant, so she either has the baby or she doesn’t. Both seemed merciless. I told him, ‘I’m at my lowest. I can’t imagine playing anything other than where I’m at. If I can turn this into...something.’ He asked if I was sure and I said, ‘let’s lean in’,” Kiele revealed.
