Days of Our Lives Spoilers: All About Abigail’s Past Mental Issues And Trauma

Days of Our Lives star AnnaLynne McCord, who plays the new Abigail on the hit Peacock soap, recently opened up about a very difficult subject for her character. Keep reading below for everything you need to know.

Days of Our Lives Spoilers: All About Abigail’s Past Mental Issues And Trauma

Speaking to Soap Opera Digest in a new interview, the actress was asked about playing Abigail and all of the mystery that is currently surrounding her character. 

AnnaLynne admitted that it’s been interesting trying to incorporate the character’s past mental issues and trauma into the current storyline.

She said, “I speak out a lot about mental health, and I’ve dealt with dissociation, severe dissociation, to the point of having what’s called DID [dissociative identity disorder]”

“Then I found out that Abigail had that too. I was like, ‘Okay. Abigail and I get each other.’ I was diagnosed with that, and I’m grateful to have reached what’s called fusion, where my parts came back together.”

“But during that time, you’re so numb. I would describe it to people. I’d be like, “I knew something was wrong, but my screen was blank.” That’s what happened. In my mind, my screen would go blank.”

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AnnaLynne also said that fans are going to be seeing a little bit of herself in this new version of Abigail as well.

She said, “I brought that into the scenes during the early moments with Chad and Jack and everyone, because the Abigail who can’t remember her life would’ve been a lot the way AnnaLynne was in her life when she couldn’t remember her story.”

“I didn’t remember certain things that had happened to me when I was a child. When I would get into conflict, I would sometimes freeze and everything would go blank. I’ve incorporated that quite a bit into the early storyline of Abigail’s journey, because I lived it.”

“I give her these quiet moments where you see she has a little bit of anxiety rising. And in the moments where everyone’s there, a lot of times I have her freeze and experience what it’s like to be in dissociation, which is that you don’t really know where you are in space or time.”

Of course, fans will have to tune in each and every day to find out what will happen next. Days of Our Lives airs weekdays on the Peacock streaming network.

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