An actor who hasn’t been onscreen since 2014 said, “As a mother now, there are many roles I won’t do.”

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He continued, "This was after I thought I was doing pretty good, and mom was like, 'Nope.' So I went to this school, and I was there studying, and I was getting a qualification to become a carpenter. And the crazy thing about the course was it was for people trying to turn their lives around. You know, there's a lot of ex-cons and some tough people in there, and they're all, like, swapping stories and stuff, and then I'm like, 'Yeah, there was this one time on set when my coffee was cold, man, and it was really tough.' And yeah, I didn't finish the course."

"I love the learning curve of becoming a producer. I'm no stranger to hard work. I've always sort of lived by this idea that hard work is good work. I really enjoyed it, but then again, the show did break me. There did come a time where I was sort of like, 'I need to have a break.' I disappeared. I went to Mexico for a week and had some time on a beach. And I'm now taking a year off, and that is a result of how difficult this show was," Tom concluded.

She continued, "When you work in something like healthcare, and I think it's any profession really, where you're just exposed to so many different walks of life, is the world gets much bigger, and I think that's something that with the, and let's be, I mean, I was not by any means Miley or Selena or any of these huge people who really had a very easy way of getting stuck in a bubble and a big fight to not. Right? But I still, even when Wizards ended, I needed to be humbled. I needed to be taken down a few pegs. Granted, God did that, we can stop now, 'cause I got sick with type 1 diabetes when I was 20. 

[The] show ended when I was 18, so I got two years out of it, and then I was in and out of hospitals for four years. That inspired me to get my nursing degree, and then it just, all of that gave me so much perspective, and then working the pandemic, I mean, you know. You do not sweat the small stuff. The entertainment industry stuff, like, I'll have my actor friends spin out about like, 'Oh, I didn't get a call back, or this happened,' and I'm like, 'Doesn't fucking matter. You're alive. You're getting to do what you love. You're alive. You're healthy, and you don't know how much time you have.' It makes all this stuff so small and so much easier to digest because you've digested such bigger, harder things. You know, it's like exposure therapy."

She continued, "But the level of this and the pride with which I had the ability to say, 'I graduated with honors from this esteemed place,' coming from the entertainment industry, I was able to have my own opinions. And I don't think I had them before."

She continued, "When you're making a movie, it's a perfect excuse. They own you. You're there for 12 hours a day. For months on end, you have no time for anything else. I realized I handed off parts of my life to all these other people, and they took it.

I had to basically take it back and take responsibility for my own life. That's my job. There's a lot of things I had to iron out, a lot of relationships I had to repair, a lot of relationships I had to build that were absent in my life."

"So it's just a different time in my life now. Now I'm here and this is the most fulfilling thing that I've ever done in my life. [To] have a family and be married and have our little nucleus of a family. It's just completely the best thing. ... I don't have what it takes to give making a movie what it needs to be made. All of my energy is here," she added.

She continued acting and also welcomed two more kids.

In 2024, Eva published her debut children's book, Desi, Mami, and the Never-Ending Worries.