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"    Taye Diggs digs deep on finding happiness after divorce and playing a grief-stricken cop on his gripping new TNT show, Murder in the First. REDBOOK: You&amp;#039;re no cop, but you have fought crime. Didn&amp;#039;t you tackle someone who broke into your house? He didn&amp;#039;t quite enter, but he was trying to. My little one [son Walker] was home, so my Papa Bear instinct took over and I gave chase. I was cool in the moment, but afterward I realized what could have happened\u2014that&amp;#039;s when fear set in. RB: Your character, Terry, has a terminally ill wife, and in the first episode he loses it at work. Have you ever struggled to keep it together on the job? Goodness, yes. I&amp;#039;m a happy person, but when I&amp;#039;m confronted with hardships, I&amp;#039;m consumed. I need to learn to channel [my emotions] properly. RB: The Internet practically broke when the end of your 10-year marriage with Idina Menzel was announced. Were you surprised that everyone was so heartbroken? I&amp;#039;d be lying if I said there weren&amp;#039;t times when I thought, Oh, man, people are going to trip out [if we split]. Maybe they thought it was cute that we met in Rent. There weren&amp;#039;t a lot of couples like us in the theater community\u2014and I know there aren&amp;#039;t a lot of performers as talented as she is\u2026 and then you have the whole mixed [race] thing. It was easy for people to root for us. Right now, we&amp;#039;re still trying to figure out a lot of stuff because we&amp;#039;re on different coasts and our son is getting older. RB: That&amp;#039;s right, Walker is 4. What&amp;#039;s the best part of parenting him, and what&amp;#039;s the most challenging? The best is seeing the expression on his face when I pick him up from school\u2014the way he says &amp;quot;Daddy&amp;quot; is unrivaled by anything. Then the toughest\u2026 well, lately, it&amp;#039;s leaving for work when I know I have to be away from him for more than a few days. And just the vulnerability. It&amp;#039;s weird: You can do whatever with your own life, but when it comes to someone else&amp;#039;s, who is your blood, it&amp;#039;s a level of vulnerability that I wasn&amp;#039;t\u2014that I&amp;#039;m still not\u2014prepared for. RB: When you last visited REDBOOK, Walker was super into dinosaurs. Is that still true? Oh, 100 percent! The only way he&amp;#039;ll play sports is if we pretend the ball is a dinosaur egg. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve got to get the egg to the mother!&amp;quot; He has to act it out. \u2014As told to Kate Sullivan "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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