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Over the past year, Samms has been facing an all-too-real, albeit less outlandish,drama of her own. A year after contracting COVID, the actress continues to suffer from symptoms, including shortness of breath, and she battles fatigue so debilitating that getting out of bed can be a challenge. “It’s so hard for me to catch my breath, to feel enough oxygen is in me,” Samms, 60, tells PEOPLE. “And that horrible sensation is constant.”
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While the show’s famous catfights and shoulder pads are unlikely to make an appearance, Samms promises lots of behind-the-scenes dish, including details about that iconic mudfight between Fallon and Sammy Jo. “Heather and I will definitely be talking about that. It was no fun at all,” she says. “After it was all over, nobody would even let us in their car to take us to their showers, so they had to put us in the back of a truck.”
While she hopes the reunion will be a fun retrospective, she admits that two of her biggest fans might not be watching. “I have two lovely kids who have no clue about my career,” Samms says of her son, Cameron, 24, a medical student, and her daughter, Micha, 22, a math major at university. Her kids, she says, have never seen her work on Dynasty, or onGeneral Hospital, where she’s played Holly Sutton on and off since 1982. “They couldn’t be more supportive of me, but they have no interest [in my acting], which I think is a sign that I’m their mom,” says Samms, wholeft Hollywoodfor her native England in 1995 to have a family. “That’s the role that they wanted for me and see me in and that’s obviously the most important role that I could have for them.”
If they did catch a Dynasty episode, “I think they’d be horrified,” she says, laughing. “I don’t know that I want them seeing all of those steamy scenes! And the outrageous clothes, the size of the hair— they’d laugh.”
Tickets to the Dynasty Reunion long-haul COVID fundraiser are available atDynastyReunion.com
source: people.com
