‘One Life to Live’s Kassie DePaiva Looks Back at Blair & Todd’s ‘Heartbreaking’ Ending

Kassie DePaiva was already known to soap audiences as Guiding Light‘s Chelsea Reardon when the opportunity to play Blair Cramer on One Life to Live came her way in 1993. “I had left Guiding Light in ’91, gone out to Los Angeles to try to make my way and maybe do some nighttime stuff,” she recalls. “In that time period, I had auditioned and screen-tested for a part on Another World — I think it was a character named Amanda — but I didn’t get it. And then this audition for Blair came up and I thought, ‘Oh, wow, this would be great. Do I want to move back to New York?’ Yes, I wanted to, because I was not in a good place in my personal life with a marriage and I just wanted to work.”