Melrose Place’s Amy Locane on Life After Prison: ‘I Have a Lot of Remorse’

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00:00Former Melrose Place star Amy LeCain opened up to Us Weekly about coming back from a tragic

00:05error in judgment, drinking and driving, and what she learned. Now Amy has served roughly

00:10six and a half years behind bars for a DWI crash in 2010 that killed a 60-year-old woman.

00:17She was first incarcerated from 2013 to 2015, but she was plucked from her life and again

00:23locked up from 2020 to 2024 after her first sentence was deemed too lenient. She told

00:29us in the new issue, it feels very raw to be back into society. I'm looking at the world with fresh

00:34eyes. Now during her darkest days at the correctional facility for women in Union Township,

00:39New Jersey, she looked for peace anywhere she could find it. She recalled, this bright fluorescent light

00:44gets you up at 6 or 7 a.m. so I'd get up at 5 a.m. to have my alone time. Seven days a week from noon

00:51to 6 p.m., she worked in the kitchen earning $5 a day. Her responsibilities? Cooking, feeding the

00:57masses, and cleaning hundreds of pots. For the mother of two, the most difficult thing about

01:02being incarcerated was being separated from her daughters, Paige, who is 18, and Avery,

01:08who is 16. She tells us,

01:10Teenagers don't really talk a lot, so we'd be on the phone saying nothing, but at least we're

01:15together. Amy's been sober since 2010 and leads a quiet life outside of Princeton, New Jersey. She

01:20attends a local Presbyterian church and works the front desk at a doctor's office and isn't ruling

01:26out a return to acting. And despite taking steps towards normalcy, Amy still struggles with the pain

01:32she caused her loved ones and the family of the woman who died. She tells us it's a very, very,

01:37very heavy reality to live with. Every day when I'm praying or doing daily devotionals,

01:42I try to keep her in mind.