… I also got to see first hand what happens to your body when you don’t take care of it. It was a turning point for me. I started to feel like I’ve got to do something because I was physically in a lot of pain. It hurt to lay on my stomach and I slept on my stomach. It hurt to sit in certain chairs and climb up the stairs.”
“I was like, ‘Okay, but I’m 27. I can’t live like this at 27.’ So finally one day I was at home in the middle of the afternoon and I got up and said I’m going to go do something and I put on the only sneakers I had. They were these old beat up shoes and were totally inappropriate for any working out but those were all I had and I decided I’d walk my subdivision. I came back and decided I’d do it the next day and the next day and that started my transformation.”
Co-stars for the show were quick to send their condolences upon hearing the news.
‘This is Us’ co-star Mandy Moore wrote on Twitter, “Sending love and light to @JasFly’s family and loved ones.”
Fellow co-star Susan Kelechi Watson wrote, “Incredibly shocked and saddened to have just received this news. Blessed Light, fly with the angels.”