When Jane and Jarnes met 14 years ago, gelling their two families could have been complicated and messy, but she insists it went smoothly."We all went out to a baseball game and afterwards played ball in the park," she recalls.

"I looked at ]ames and thought, 'This is amazing - this is what it's supposed to be like.' He's been a hands-on parental figure since the day he met them."

The secret to their success as a couple is, she believes, that she and James are "tre partners." I'd been badly burnt before." she admits.

"But from the moment I met him it was right and it's been right ever since. We're very much a team, whether it's raising the kids, being responsible for the house, or work. I support We're very much a team, whether it's raising the kids, being responsible for the house, or work. I support his dreams, passions and aspirations and he supports mine."

James also helped save her, from near bankruptcy. In January 1991, Jane's messy divorce from David Flynn left her penniless. "When my marriage ended I found out that I had five lawsuits with banks and was in so much debt, I'd never heard of a number that large - all because of things David had done that I knew nothing about. He was my business ,manager and my husband, so I'd trusted him."

Desperate, out of work and with two small children to support. she rang her agent. "I was terrified. I said, 'I need to work vesterdav.' So he called up all the networks and said, Jane will do anything - what do you have?'- And she was offered Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.


"It saved my life, literally." she says of the popular. award-winning show in which she starred for seven years.

She met James a month after her divorce. when he directed her in the film Sunstroke. He immediately took her financial matters in hand. "I didn't know how to handle any of it." admits Jane. "I'd be on the set of Dr. Quinn at seven in the morning, in my costume, sitting on a wagon and holding a horse. Somebody would walk up and say,

"Are you Jane Seymour?' and I'd say, 'Yes,` and he'd say, 'I'm serving you court papers.' The assistant director would call James, who'd pick up the papers, call the lawyers and say, 'What do we do now?' He gave up a year of his life to sort it all out. I never had to declare bankruptcy and I paid everybody off."