Sophia Michaels
Kim Cattrall admitted that she sacrificed her personal life to advance her career. In an interview with news.com.au, she confessed that her commitment to “Sex and the City” was why her marriage with Mark Levinson ended in divorce. The two married in 1998, and by the time the series ended, they announced that they were parting ways.
“It [Sex and the City] cost me my marriage, because I was never home,” she told the outlet. “I was never there and my husband got lonely and upset and competitive, and it was really difficult, it was really hard… You end up spending more time with my ‘Sex and the City’ family than I did with my real family.”
While Cattrall didn’t divulge any more details about their split, in an interview with Piers Morgan the following year, she revealed she sacrificed one more thing to fulfill her “SATC” duties: Becoming a mother. As the actor recalled, the shooting schedule was so grueling that she couldn’t find a reasonable workaround to conceive (they were considering IVF), let alone raise a child. “I thought to myself, ‘Wow, I have 19-hour days on this series.’ My Monday morning would start at 4:45 a.m. and go to one or two in the morning. How could I possibly continue to do that, especially in my early 40s?” she recalled (via People). “I thought, ‘I don’t think it is going to happen.’ It was the first moment — it was extraordinary — in my life where I thought, ‘Maybe I’m just not going to do this.'”
