Lucy Hale Wants To Be More Like New 'Life Sentence' Character Stella

Lucy Hale is moving on from Aria Montgomery and embracing all that Stella Abbott, her new character in CW’s Life Sentence.

“She’s been living like she was dying, because she was – she had cancer, and she’s been told she had X amount of time live, so she was making all sorts of spontaneous decisions,” she shared about Stella. “She got married, she thought life was wonderful and her family was perfect, and then in the pilot we find out she’s going to live, so she has to re-figure out everything.”

Lucy continues, “She has to figure out who she is � It’s sort of like she knew how to die, but she didn’t know how to live.”

But that is exactly why Lucy wants to be more like Stella.

“Stella makes the most of it,” she says. “I aspire to be more like her.”

“I think if everyone was like her, the world would be a much better place. She’s a fixer and she’s very optimistic and positive. I’m not always like that!”

Life Sentence, also starring Elliot Knight and Carlos PenaVega, will premiere midseason on The CW.