Fans of The Bold and the Beautiful have long wondered what happened to Hunter Tylo, who was last seen as Dr. Taylor Hayes in 2019. Now, Tylo is finally breaking her silence about what happened, and the reasons behind her decision to walk away.

The actress spoke with The Unexpected Cosmology Podcast, while there she shared why she left the show, and hasn’t returned. “I’ve wanted to come back and talk to my fans for a long time.” The actress began, “They [The Bold and the Beautiful] ask me to come back around 2021, and I said no, I’m just not going to do that right now.”

She then shared how she was given an ultimatum by the show. “They said if you don’t [return] then we are going to recast you.” To which she quickly replied, “I said alright.”

The actress the explained how she knew her replacement. “So, they did. Actually with a friend of mine, Krista Allen, we have the same manager, Mark Galler.”

“I don’t know if they thought it would make me mad,” The actress continued, “but I said have fun, get ready for the roller-coaster ride, because it’s not fun all the time.” The actress shared how hard being on a soap can be saying, “You are non-stop expected to cry, you are in constant trauma when you are doing these shows. You end up living two lives. It’s very very stressful.”

Later in the interview Tylo said, “The reason I’m not doing it [The Bold and the Beautiful] anymore is because the influence that I had on people by continuing to play these same storylines. I would ask [the show] could we do something different? Can my character be this or that or positive? Let’s show her counseling someone in a session and they change their life for the better. All I do is cry, scream, yell, slap people across the face, wish them dead. Say I hate your guts to people, shove them over a balcony, run them over with a car. Why would anyone want to do that for very long, except for money.”