With Maya on a ventilator for five days, “the whole time, you’re just kind of keeping her asleep, almost like a seduced coma,” he explained. “Me and Taylor, we got to have talks that we normally wouldn’t have.”
The gist of their conversations, he continued, “was like, ‘OK, the little things that we used to worry about, all that stuff, let’s push that to the side. We know what we want. We want this family to work. We want to be there for our girls.”
While it’d be hard to find the silver lining in every parent’s worst nightmare, noted Wharton, “If there was ever, like, a little diamond in the rough or blessing in disguise, it would be that, that me and Taylor did reconnect, and we did decide that, okay, we both have to put time into each other as well.”