Earlier this year, Lisa Edelstein found herself in a unique scenario: On May 25, she was marrying artist Robert Russell, and the next day she was driving to Vancouver to play a newly single woman in Bravo's "Girlfriends' Guide To Divorce."

Luckily for Edelstein, portraying a divorcee taught her a lot about being a newlywed, she told HuffPost Live's Josh Zepps on Thursday.

"It really planted a seed to remind myself on a daily basis not to take my husband for granted, not to take our relationship for granted, to really remember that anything can end," she said.

That reminder is important because divorce is becoming more and more common in American life, Edelstein added. And she has been touched by it too.

"My husband was in the middle of a divorce when I met him, so I have walked through divorce from that point of view. I have stepchildren, so learning how to have an alternative family is something you're really not trained for," she said.