Sexy Soap Star Catherine Hickland offers the 30-Day Heartbreak Cure

Since 1998, Catherine Hickland has been scheming and seducing as the devious yet disturbed Lindsay Rappaport on ABC's One Life to Live. I think the reason people can relate to her, said the daytime siren, despite the fact that she's crazy, is that she is a person who is looking for someone to love her. Like her naughty anti-heroine character, Catherine also has had her share of relationship problems, and she offers her daytime fans The 30-Day Heartbreak Cure, which is also the name of her book.

"In 30 days", she tells TV Guide, "I will have you back out there really living in the world without the anger and blame that can keep you prisoner in a bad relationship years after it's over. You will be able to put down your emotional baggage and be free."

The book doesn't come out until December 30, but it is available for pre-order online at Amazon.

Catherine has been known for her marriage to David Hasselhoff. The pair first met when the Hoff was the Knight Rider during the 1980s, where she had a recurring role as his love interest during her stint on ABC's Capitol from 1983-87. They married in 1984 but divorced five years later. "It was my decision to marry David", she said, "and I take full responsibility for my share in the disaster it became. I grew up surrendered by chaos and dysfunction, and I'd simply re-created it."

After her divorce from the Hoff, Catherine moved to Italy to mend her broken heart. Once coming back to the States, she met an actor with a familiar name connected to the Hoff -- Michael E. Knight, who plays Tad Martin on All My Children. The two became friends, and that led to romance. They married in 1992, and Catherine returned to ABC Daytime with roles on Loving, spinoff The City, and currently One Life to Live. However, in 2005, Catherine and Michael separated after 13 years of marriage.

"We are not officially divorced, but it's just a technicality - in our minds we are divorced; we just haven't done the paperwork" she states. "When Michael and I split up, I wanted to do it with much love, dignity and honor as we could. It's been an awesome experience, because he's turned out to be the best friend I've ever had, and he'd say the same thing about me."

The 30-Day Heartbreak Cure offers the lovelorn day-to-day wisdom on how to get move on with your life after a bad breakup; even writing the book has help Catherine, who's now in the middle of writing a second one. "Look at it this way", she goes on, "you only have to follow these rules for thirty days. There's nothing you can't handle for thirty days, except feel like you're feeling today.

"I couldn't have written it until now, but it's the healing calendar I wish I'd had a long time ago."

Garrett Godwin writes for NewsBlaze from Michigan. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.