Former Actress Trusted ‘God’s Plan’ After Leukemia Diagnosis

Published: October 5, 2023

Former Actress Trusted ‘God’s Plan’ After Leukemia Diagnosis

By Movieguide® Contributor

Former RESCUE ME star Natalie Archer sat down with Fox News Digital to discuss how her leukemia diagnosis changed her life.

After the actress finished RESCUE ME, she decided to pursue a music career, eventually creating a band with her husband, Kyle Archer, in Nashville.

However, when she passed out in a grocery, her life was put on pause after she received a leukemia diagnosis.

Natalie ended up at a cancer center in Nashville.

“I was there for 30 days, and I began chemotherapy, I think, within two days,” she explained. “It just … it completely changed our world. I think as much as we were so sad and devastated that we were, you know, living out this dream of ours essentially in Nashville, we were just like, ‘You know what? I think this is our sign to maybe move back to Montana.’”

From there, the two moved back to Montana, where she continued to receive treatment and learned some devastating news.

“I think I’ll never forget being in the hospital and having, like, you know, all the doctors…saying, ‘We just want you to know there’s no time to do any type of like…freezing the eggs or do anything. There’s just no time. We have to start this now,” Archer explained.

“There’s a huge chance that you’re not going to be able to have children,” the doctor told the young couple.

“I remember looking at Kyle and saying, ‘You know, as long as we have each other that it doesn’t matter,’” Natalie recalled. “We can get through it, and we will have a family one day.”

“Maybe this is God’s plan, and we’re just going to, like, shift gears, and we’ll still have our family that, you know, that we want,” she added. “And that next week we found out I was pregnant.”

The couple now share Boden, born in 2019, and Ednie, born in 2021.

While they took a break from songwriting, the couple relaunched their band Archertown in 2019.

“After our son was born, it kind of opened our minds and like really ignited the passion of creating music,” Kyle said. “I sit down and play with him, and write songs…and just, like, get back to doing what we love. That’s kind of really what kick-started it back up.”

“You go through something so big in your life, and you want to express it and write about it or whatever your outlet maybe, but we didn’t do that,” Natalie recalled. “So I think once we did it was like, oh my gosh we never wrote about any of these things.”