Things got emotional during the premiere of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County. One of the show's stars, Aspyn Ovard, shared in the episode that her daughter has terminal cancer.
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The show premiered yesterday, Nov. 12, on Hulu. The 30-year-old Ovard has three daughters with her ex-husband, Parker Ferris. She did not reveal which child, Cove, 7, Lola, 5, or Elle, 2, received the diagnosis.
"Everything happened just so out of nowhere," Ovard said. "One day she was OK, and the next day she wasn't."
The YouTube star added that she and Ferris have been living in fear for over three years that their daughter could die from the disease.
"At the hospital, we were like, 'It has to be fine,'" she said. "You can't fathom they're actually gonna tell you that your baby has cancer, and that it's terminal and she could be gone in a month."
Aspyn Ovard Says Talking About the Diagnosis Is "Triggering"
Later in the episode of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, Ovard said her daughter had "another stable scan. However, she added that it's "unusual for a child with this kind of cancer to have this much time."
She did not share any further details about her daughter's diagnosis.
Ovard and the 31-year-old Ferris were high school sweethearts. They were engaged in 2015. But Ovard filed for divorce in 2014 after discovering that Ferris had been drinking behind her back. Her father died from alcoholism, leading her to oppose drinking.
Ovard, who is now in a throuple with a married couple, said her marriage wasn't in a place to survive the heartbreaking diagnosis.
"We weren't even going to make it through before this happened," she said. "It's just so toxic and hard, and through all of it I feel like I still just tried to take care of him because I know how hard he's grieving."
In the second episode of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, Ovard admitted she doesn't talk about her daughter's diagnosis because it's "triggering and traumatizing."
"I've set boundaries from the beginning," she said. "If I make an effort to put myself out there and do things and be around people, I just want to be distracted and I want to feel as normal as I can because I don't ever get to feel that way anymore."
