SoAlderson was recast as Kiki Jerome, the daughter of mafioso Ava Jerome (Maura West).
Eddie had played Matthew Buchanan on “OLTL,” and the siblings were very close in real life.
And I didn’t want anyone else to hold him.
I didn’t want anyone else to change his diapers.
Like, I was just obsessed with him."
When his heart started racing while he was relaxing, his mother made a doctor’s appointment.
The doctors found a large mass on his chest, eventually determining it was Hodgkin’s Lymphoma stage 4.
“And then,” she went on, “He had six months of chemo.
Every two weeks he had three hours of chemotherapy.
But he didn’t lose his hair, he was still feeling good, it was great.
[After] six months … didn’t work.”
Alderson and her brother opted to enjoy their lives and remain positive.
“We really tried to lean into the positive.
What saved him is Keytrudo, which is a drug that’s for lung cancer.
It’s not even a chemotherapy.
It’s kind of a last ditch effort to save him.
And it did, and now he’s been cancer free for five years,” she explained.
