Ashley’s trip to Spain may last quite some time, according to A Million Little Things creator/executive producer DJ Nash and star Christina Ochoa.
In Thursday’s episode, Ochoa’s character was seen making a tearful goodbye phone call to Gary, then boarding a plane to Spain using the ticket Jon bought her before he died. Earlier in the episode, she’d come clean to Delilah & Co. about the secret she’d been keeping: Jon had taken out a secret life insurance policy — with the guys and Barbara Morgan, whoever she is, as beneficiaries — and Ash had been using that money to pay down Jon’s real estate debts.
Ashley’s exit sure made it seem like Ochoa, a series regular, was leaving the show. But that’s not the case, Nash told TVLine this week.
Nash continued: “Good or bad, our show is a soap. On some great soaps, things happen and people come back.” And given that the drama has a history of switcheroos — such as in the premiere, when Rome’s suicide attempt was interrupted by Jon’s actually going through with the act — “We sent [Ashley] away,” Nash said, “but maybe she comes back knowing a lot of Spanish.” (Fun fact: In real life, Ochoa is fluent in the language.)
“I think it’s a pretty safe bet to say that Ashley is not completely out of the picture,” Ochoa said. Still, don’t expect Ash to jet back to Boston anytime soon: “As for the rest of this season,” Ochoa added, “she’s not going to be in it.” —With reporting by Michael Ausiello and Matt Webb Mitovich
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