The author of Heated Rivalry has revealed the success of the TV adaptation has resulted in her receiving specialist help with her Parkinson's disease.
Rachel Reid, 45, was diagnosed with the condition in the summer of 2023, around the same time she was approached about adapting her book series for the screen.
Heated Rivalry, which centres on an illicit same-sex relationship between two ice hockey players, has become one of the most talked-about new TV shows of recent weeks.
In an interview with Variety, the Canadian author explained that a Parkinson's expert contacted her after hearing about her diagnosis in a publicity interview for the series.
The subsequent appointment she has secured with a neurologist, Reid said, "could change things for me, because I'm not really getting the treatment that I should be getting".
