Aspyn Ovard explains why she waited three years to share her daughter’s cancer diagnosis
'The internet has kind of been like the last piece of normalcy that I’ve had in my life'
Aspyn Ovard sadly shared during the premiere episode of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County that her daughter has terminal cancer. She’s now opened up about why she chose to share the news now, three years after her daughters diagnosis.
Speaking to People, Aspyn shared: “Yeah, I’ve definitely had a really hard last few years. And I think that, you know, people in my real life know that.I’ve shared my normal content, like as normal as I could, for the last few years.
“The internet has kind of been like the last piece of normalcy that I’ve had in my life. And I kind of have just known that I can’t always keep it that way. So being able to kind of hand my story over and have help and kind of like crafting that and just showing like what my life actually looks like took some weight off of me, even though it is like a very heavy thing to share.”
She added: “It was definitely a big decision and something that I’m just hoping that I kind of feel good about in the end, because I just haven’t really known how to share my life.”
Speaking to Us Weekly, Aspyn Ovard explained that she originally wasn’t going to share her daughter’s cancer diagnosis on the show, saying: “Initially, I wasn’t going to share a lot of things that are going on in my life. Including my relationship.
“I’ve been very private for the last few years so I was thinking that maybe I could get away with doing this and still staying private. But I think that this is definitely just a different experience than me sharing my life through my own content. It was kind of like going big or going home in a way.”
She continued: “I had a lot of reassurance from production that they would be very respectful of my life and my story. I got to have a hand in crafting my story and the way that they put everything together. So they made me feel very comfortable and OK with sharing everything that I did.”
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