"I couldn't understand how they could work around the fact that she could do that to her children" the actress explained.In September 2015, Treadwell-Collins said to the "Daily Mirror" that the story was inspired by the real life John Darwin disappearance where John—also known as the Canoe man—with the help of his wife Anne faked his death in a canoe accident in March 2002 in order to claim the insurance.