When executives at CBS were seeking a girl to play Jane's Medicine \Woman character, as a child, they chose Katie.

So that Shaun didn't feel left out she let him dress in costume on set.
Jane laughs as she explains, "Shaun is the one most likely to be an actor. He loves acting and he's always putting on puppet shows, doing imitationsplaying instruments, and generally showing off... it's terrible."

"Although Katie was very excited to work on the show- when she grows up she is more interested in being a soccer player! She's an excellent player and it's not out of the realm of possibility, that by the time she is older, there might be a ladies professional league."

Jane called 'time' on her 10 year marriage to property developer,
Flynn, 42,last summer after she discovered to her horror that he had squandered all her money. She says, "I have debts to pay. We were heavily invested in realestate but unfortunately real estate isn't selling and the banks are demanding that they be paid."

"Im the one that has to work flat out to dig us out of trouble."
I had no idea what was happening until I finally discovered how bad the situation was. But I'm not the sort of person who lies down with their arms and legs in the air screaming 'it's not fair'

"When the chips are down, I get going. I realized I had financial responsibilities. David had no way of making money, so it was
down to me. I'm not bitter towards him, I'm not that sort of person."

"Life goes on and he sees our children every day. He lives less
than a milefrom our house in Santa Barbara and he has breakfast
with us every morning. We still do a lot of things as a family-David and I believe this is very important for the kids."

"I am really very proud of how David and I have handled things.
This is not some horrible big fight. This is two people trying to cope with change."

© Hello Magazine March 21, 1992

 

 

 

 

Following her enormously successful mini series Memories of Midnight, Jane threw herself into a frighteningly hectic schedule she says. "I often work a lot, but since all the trouble happened last year, I have had to work especially hard and I did three films between the summer and Christmas.

It looks as if I may be working pretty much constantly for the rest of the year. If Medicine Woman is a success, the network plans to make it into a weekly series starting this fall.

"It was strange, Jane recalls, when they heard that I was interested in the part, they gave me twelve hours to decide. So I potentially committed five years of my life on a snap decision. But I really identified with it because I'm a doctor's daughter."

Jane has also just sealed the deals on two more television films to be made in the next 5 months."In May, I'll be doing a kind of steamy psychological thriller called Sunstroke, which I found and submitted to the USA network. Then in June and July, the Disney channel are doing their version of Heidi- and I'm going to play the governess. Hopefully after that, I'll be busy on the Medicine Woman series."

Jane admits with the banks' constant demands loominig over her she has not spent too much time weighing up the pros and cons of the projects she has agreed to. "Because of the necessity to make money, I haven't really had the luxury of choice," she says.

"From the start, I took the attitude that I had to work that day and every day to pay off my debts. But the interesting thing is that a lot of the things I've done have been incredibly successful- especially, Memories of Midnight. So maybe it was just as well that I wasn't able to take parts purely on the grounds of my own artistic judgements."

Although Jane has learned to shrug off the more exaggerated reports about her life, she never ceases to worry about the effect the headlines have on her children.  "It's crazy what the papers say about me sometimes," says the angry actress, who since moving to America in 1976 has suffered the slings and arrows of the tabloid press on both sides of the Atlantic.

"In the floods they had me nearly dead. I can't stop them if this is how they think they sell papers. When they lie, I'd like to be able to sue. But sometimes it gets so out of hand, I dont' know where to start!"

"This whole thing with the divorce has become completely insane. It really hurts my kids, and nothing upsets me more than to see my kids upset."

But all in all the elegant Ms. Seymour, who despite her 16 years in California still has a perfect English accent, is not complaining. Far from it.

"I do feel I have triumphed over adversity," she says. I am happy, my kids seems happy and I'm branching off into new directions that I wouldn't have dreamed of a year ago. "

"I should be executive producing-Sunstroke and CBS have told me that if the Medicine Woman series goes ahead, I'll be directing some of the episodes. I have come through some very difficult times- but out of adversity some really wonderful things have happened."