Access: “People really love your character, and the love for her has really grown over the years and especially [with] your work last season too, in the Lizzie episode. What has it been like to feel that outpouring from people — of love for this character and respect for your performance?” Melissa: “It’s an amazing feeling, and [I’m] just floored with gratitude and it makes me… I’ve said it before how real Carol is to me, and I know women like her, very close to me and it kind of — it makes me feel very happy and grateful that people see something in her that they can relate to, and it makes the world feel a whole lot smaller to me. I love intimacy and that kind of understanding — when you have an understanding toward someone who you are perhaps very different from, you realize we all have a lot more in common than we like to think, and then — at times – [more than] we could imagine, and I just love the feeling that it makes people closer and it makes this big world feel a lot smaller. And enough can’t be said about just the voice of the fans and how much love is generated and how much good energy comes my way from it.”