Soap Opera Weekly
July 30, 2002
Doing Some Cell-Searching

Although ONE LIFE TO LIVE’s Lindsay is thrilled to break out of Statesville this week, Catherine Hickland enjoyed life in the pokey.

“Everything was easier for me in prison,” she laughs. “It’s a small cell. I could only wander so much.” Despite the occasional scuffle with Tillie, the work was actually less taxing. “Up until [Lindsay’s imprisonment], I hadn’t had a break in four years. I’ve had a chance to take a breath and find out who I am again outside of work, which is really healthy. When your show is your whole life, which it is when you’re here every [day], you forget a lot of things. You lose perspective on reality. This character is hard to play; she’s complicated and highly charged emotionally. It’s tiring.”

There is a downside to being locked up—and now, on the run. “I feel mousy,” Hickland confesses. “I don’t put the glamour makeup on, and my hair looks heinous. I feel unattractive and not myself. So it will be good to put on my high heels and some shiny lip gloss. It’s the girly things I miss.”

Working with men again will be nice too, right? “Who needs that?” she chuckles. “I don’t care about the ‘men’ part because mine are never right.