Sarah Hyland claims that despite suffering from gout, Modern Family producers ‘insisted’ she wear high heels for a scene.
As a youngster, the Love Island presenter, who portrayed Hayley Dunphy in the ABC sitcom, was diagnosed with renal dysplasia, which means that the kidney does not fully mature in the womb, and required two transplants.
Sarah, 32, remembers having to push a car with co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who portrayed Mitchell Pritchett, on set while suffering from gout and on dialysis.Sarah Hyland claims that despite suffering from gout, Modern Family producers ‘insisted’ she wear high heels for a scene.
As a youngster, the Love Island presenter, who portrayed Hayley Dunphy in the ABC sitcom, was diagnosed with renal dysplasia, which means that the kidney does not fully mature in the womb, and required two transplants.
Sarah, 32, remembers having to push a car with co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who portrayed Mitchell Pritchett, on set while suffering from gout and on dialysis.
‘It was wild,’ she said. ‘[Modern Family bosses] put me in high heels. They had not established my outfit yet, and they insisted that I was wearing heels.
‘And there are pictures of me on the internet in crutches.’
Sarah told Jesse on his Dinner’s On Me podcast she was diagnosed with gout, which is a type of arthritis that causes sudden and severe joint pain, after being put on special pills to help ease water retention.
The Dirty Dancing star also recalled another Modern Family shoot in which she was in “severe agony” and “barely able to walk” due to “rejection” from the dialysis treatment she was undergoing for her disease.
Explaining that ‘there wasn’t enough time’ to go back to her trailer in between takes, she said: ‘I found a little corner, I sat in a chair… and I was just kind of curled up into a ball.’
Sarah praised Jesse and the rest of the staff for checking in with her and asking if she needed anything that day.
She commented: ‘I don’t remember a lot of filming, because I was always focused on essentially just surviving and knowing my lines and being there 100% when they yelled action — and then immediately collapsing when they yelled cut.’
The Wedding Year actress blamed her ‘workhorse mentality’ for coping with the pain, adding: ‘You don’t know when the next job is going to be, and if you don’t work hard and if you complain, you get the boot.’
She discouraged people from adopting her ‘unhealthy’ work ethic, but said it was the ‘only way’ she could cope with her misery.
Jesse was among the guests at Sarah’s wedding to her lover Wells Adams in 2022, following a protracted delay due to Covid.
Created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, Modern Family aired on ABC for 11 seasons from 2009 until 2020.
Source My Celebrity Life.
