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Alison Sweeney Dishes About Her Latest Movie, MURDER, SHE BAKED: JUST DESSERTS

- Stephanie Sloane

On March 26, the fifth installment of Alison Sweeney’s MURDER, SHE BAKED series will air on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Though it should have been business as usual for the actress to head to Vancouver to shoot the film, she was thrown an unexpected curveball last December that turned her world upside-down. “We had the whole thing all laid out to start production in two to three weeks when I was minding my own business on Christmas vacation with my friends and family and I had a skiing accident,” Sweeney explains. “As people who have followed me on social media know, it was a pretty serious accident and I tore several ligaments in my knee.”

Her experience as DAYS’s Sami suddenly factored in to her real life. “Having played tons of different ailments over the years, I’ve been in many hospital sets and wheelchairs and crutches and whatnot, so when it really happens to you, there’s this weird sense of, ‘I’ve done this before,’ ” she chuckles. “Only on the show, the prop department would take stuff away when I was done with my scenes. It sort of brought me some introspection that for the most part, I’ve been pretty healthy and I’ve worked with a lot of actors on DAYS over the years who have had various ailments in one form or another, but other than my pregnancies, I’ve never really had something I had to work around. So this was all new to me.”