Kim Cattrall says she prioritized her role as Samantha on Sex and the City over having children. 
 
 The actress, 61, opened up about having considered motherhood during an appearance on Monday’s episode of Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, saying that after she got married to her third husband Mark Levinson in 1998, she thought about starting IVF treatments but decided against it because of the hectic shooting schedule for SATC — which premiered that June. 
 
 “I thought to myself, ‘Wow, I have 19-hour days on this series. … My Monday morning would start at 4:45 a.m. and go to one or two in the morning. How could I possibly continue to do that, especially in my early 40s?’ ” she said. “And then I realized what a commitment it was just to the [IVF] procedures.” 
 
 “I thought, ‘I don’t think it is going to happen.’ It was the first moment — it was extraordinary — in my life where I thought, ‘Maybe I’m just not going to do this,’” she added. 
 
 Cynthia Nixon (left), Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Sarah Jessica Parker. Khloe Kardashian/Snapchat 
 
 Asked whether she feels maternal, Cattrall replied, “Yes, I think it’s part of being a woman to have that. But obviously fate, timing, luck, destiny, I don’t know.” 
 
 That instinct inspired her to mentor young actresses. 
 
 “I thought I have a place to be a mom here, not a biological mom but a mom and an auntie and a friend. And that has really given me so much, as much as I give I get two-fold back,” she continued. 
 
 Also in the interview, Cattrall said that she was “never friends” with her SATC costars. “We’ve never been friends,” she said. “We’ve been colleagues and in some way, it’s a very healthy place to be.” 
 
 The actress addressed reports that her demands led studio Warner Bros. to kill Sex and the City 3, which she called “ridiculous.” 
 
 “I never asked for any money,” Cattrall said. “I never asked for any projects, to be thought of as some kind of diva is absolutely ridiculous.” 
 
 Cynthia Nixon (left), Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Sarah Jessica Parker. Khloe Kardashian/Snapchat 
 
 However, sources have told PEOPLE that Cattrall made “outrageous demands” to re-board the movie franchise. 
 
 Cattrall “was dragging her feet all summer and cast and crew members had put their lives on hold to get ready to shoot the movie,” said one source. “Then when she made outrageous demands, the studio had enough and pulled the plug. Her demand for them to buy her films in development and to give her a TV deal are what broke the camel’s back for them.” 
 
 Rumors that Samantha (Cattrall), Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) were reuniting for a new film — which would follow 2008’s Sex and the City and 2010’s Sex and the City 2 — had long swirled, with fans hoping to see the fierce foursome reunited again. 
 
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 But after almost eight years of encouraging words from actors, Parker told Extra on Sept. 28 that any possibility of a third movie is officially “over.” 
 
 As previously reported, Cattrall also called out Parker — who would have been a producer on the film — while appearing on the ITV series. 
 
 Kim Cattrall (left) and Sarah Jessica Parker. Khloe Kardashian/Snapchat 
 
 “And this is really where I take to task the people from Sex and the City and specifically Sarah Jessica Parker in that I think she could have been nicer,” she said in previously released footage from the sit-down. 
 
 The interview airs in its entirety on Monday night in the United Kingdom. ||||| Kim Cattrall is not friends with her “Sex and the City” castmates. 
 
 “We’ve never been friends. We’ve been colleagues and in some ways it’s a very healthy place to be because then you have a clear line between your professional life and relationship and your personal,” the 61-year-old told Piers Morgan in an interview for ITV. 
 
 Though there has been buzz for years that Cattrall didn’t get along with co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, the apparent quarrel resurfaced recently when it was confirmed that a third “SATC” film was no longer in the works. 
 
 That news prompted the Daily Mail to report that it was Cattrall’s “outrageous demands” that halted the third installment, which Cattrall has vehemently denied. “I never asked for any money, I never asked for any projects. To be thought of as some kind of diva is ridiculous,” Cattrall told Morgan. 
 
 After the Mail report, a source told Page Six, “It’s no secret Kim isn’t a fan of Sarah Jessica Parker and [producer] Michael Patrick King,” citing another reason why the film was canceled less than a week before shooting was slated to start earlier this month. 
 
 During Cattrall’s sit-down with Morgan — which is airing in full Monday night in the UK — she also says she’s been saying “no” to a third installment for almost a year. 
 
 If there’s one person from the cast Cattrall blames for her negative press, it’s Carrie Bradshaw herself. 
 
 “This is really where I take to task the people from ‘Sex and the City,’ specifically Sarah Jessica Parker, is that I think she could’ve been nicer. I really think she could have been nicer,” Cattrall said. 
 
 But the show’s other stars aren’t excluded from Cattrall’s disappointment either. 
 
 “Nobody ever picks up the phone and tries to contact you and say, ‘How you doing?’ That would have been the way to handle it,” the actress said. “This is, it feels like, a toxic relationship.”
– Actress Kim Cattrall says she seriously considered having children back in the late 1990s but decided instead to focus on the then-new HBO series Sex and the City. Appearing on Monday's episode of Piers Morgan's Life Stories, Cattrall admitted that she contemplated starting IVF treatments after marrying Mark Levinson in 1998, the same year SATC premiered, People reports. “I thought to myself, ‘Wow, I have 19-hour days on this series. … My Monday morning would start at 4:45am and go to 1 or 2 in the morning. How could I possibly continue to do that, especially in my early 40s?' I thought, 'I don't think it is going to happen.'" Cattrall also told Morgan she has "never been friends" with her SATC castmates. Cattrall's confessions come a month after her co-star Sarah Jessica Parker confirmed that there would not be a third Sex and the City movie, and rumors started circulating that the movie was called off due to Cattrall's "outrageous demands." But Cattrall told Morgan those rumors aren't true, Page Six reports. "To be thought of as some kind of diva is ridiculous,” she said. Instead, Cattrall said she has been saying "no" to a third installment in the series for a year and that she believes Parker should be blamed for her negative press. "I really think she could have been nicer,” she said.