The dramatic fight for life of Sarah Hyland
We remember her as the carefree teenager Haley from the series Modern Family, but Sarah Hyland, is completely different behind the cameras
We remember her as the carefree, often reckless teenager Haley Dunphy from the series "Modern Family", but Sarah Hyland, the American actress who became famous for that role, is completely different behind the cameras. She seems too serious considering the fact that already in her early thirties she achieved what many fail to do for the rest of their lives. According to her fans, she should enjoy a life in which everything came together like in a fairy tale…
However, in the ''Quitters'' podcast Actress Julie Bowen, who played the role of Haley's mother Claire Dunphy in the hit series, told what the second page of her story about the rise in the entertainment industry looks like and why she left the impression of being too serious on the set during the filming of the series.
The reason is a severe disease, congenital dysplasia of the kidneys (they are underdeveloped) with which she has been struggling since she was little.
As she grew older, her health problems became more severe and her pain worse. Namely, due to vital organs that never worked properly, the whole organism suffered the consequences. In order to keep her alive, doctors operated on her fifteen times, two of which were kidney transplants.
There was a situation when the disease exhausted the young actress so much and it hurt so much that she was lying on the set with warm compresses in a critical place. When she had to repeat the scene, Julie Bowen would approach the curled-up and exhausted Sarah.
The young actress added that she could not stay awake for eight hours continuously during the filming due to exhaustion. She functioned on the set by laying her head on the table as soon as she finished the scene and falling asleep immediately. They would wake her up before the new scene, and she, acting like a carefree and wiggly teenager, would heroically, without complaints, do her part until a new break and opportunity for rest.
It was the same when she went on dialysis for a year, three times a week because her condition worsened so much that there was no other way. Namely, her body rejected the kidney that was given to her in 2011, when she was 21, by her father, also an actor. Doctors had to remove the previously transplanted organ, and dialysis saved her life. The incredibly brave actress overcame that as well. She struggled with health without a word of complaint on the set.
Fortunately, she did not put her black thoughts into action. She spoke publicly about impaired mental health in 2019, while recently in a podcast by Julie Bowen, she told how she got out of an unenviable situation.
What followed the public confession surprised her greatly: strangers showered her with letters of support, thanking her for sharing her grief and helping them cope more easily with their own health problems.
That is why she was much more careful before the second transplant: she had to focus all her strength on herself instead of giving statements that a new challenge awaits her. Everything went well, and her body accepted the donated kidney that time.
Today, she says she learned the lesson that she should never give up on herself, and in return, she got a more fulfilled life than she had hoped for in her wildest dreams.
