Jane Seymour has shared that her latest Hallmark project mirrors her own experience of finding love.

The actress, stars in Twelve Dates ’Til Christmas based on Jenni Bayliss’ 2020 novel as a widow who unexpectedly finds romance with Mac, a divorcee.

Speaking with People Magazine, Jane shared that the character’s journey resonated with her personal life.

She said, “I felt that when I read this. I went, ‘Okay, I know who Evelyn is.’ That dynamic about two older people finding one another is very much my story.”

Adding, “And the nervousness of — what is it? How do you deal with this? What do you do at this time in your life? It’s something I know.”

Jane Seymour has been married four times previously before meeting John Zambetti in 2023 after their sons introduced them. “I think the Hallmark audience, a lot of them are my age, and they’re vicariously living through this,” she noted, adding, “They’re going, ‘Oh my goodness, that could actually happen.'”

She went on to note, “They know in real life, it actually has happened to me, and then they’re even more kind of interested. ‘Oh, I wonder what that would be like.'”

“I can relate to it differently. I’ve never lost anyone who died on me, but my partner, his wife died, so I can relate to it because I know what I see him go through,” Jane Seymour noted of her character being widow.

Episodes of Twelve Dates ‘Til Christmas premieres on Fridays on Hallmark.