Sarah Hyland On Fighting Through Kidney Disease & Mental Health Struggles
02.03.2022 - 06:25
/ etcanada.com
Sarah Hyland is opening up about her health struggles.
Joining “Modern Family” co-star Julie Bown on the “Quitters” podcast, Hyland looked back at her second kidney transplant and how her kidney dysplasia caused her to not even remember shooting certain episodes as she was just so tired.
“I’m well,” Hyland said of what she currently feels. “Everything’s stable. I haven’t left the house in a very long time right now, but everything is stable as of now.”
“There are some episodes of ‘Modern Family’ where I do not remember filming because I was asleep,” she said. “Dead ass asleep. The episode where Haley asked [Luke for] money and he’s like, ‘Don’t worry, I’ve got it on ice.’ It’s in the freezer or something. The entire episode I was asleep.”
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“You have to be a certain level of sick in order to receive a transplant. I was reaching that certain level of sick,” she said prior to her first transplant. “I was not able to be awake for eight hours at a time. I was so exhausted.”
Hyland would be asleep on set and right before they would call “action” she would walk on set, say her lines and then go back to sleep.
Bowen also recalled how much pain Hyland was in.
“I will never forget ‘What’s The Plan, Phil?’ Griffith Park,” Bowen said. “It was cold. Wearing a Haley special — like a Vegas skirt. The sun had set… She’s a small girl to begin with and she had kidney issues.”
They needed one more take so Bowen went to get to see if Hyland who was in pain could do one more round. Bowen said Hyland got up “like a robot” to do the scene. “She [was] in a lot of pain, but you’d always turn it on when you needed to take care of