14-07-2025
The Bold and The Beautiful's Rebecca Budig Reveals Which Soap Exit Affected Her Most
The Bold and The Beautiful's Rebecca Budig Reveals Which Soap Exit Affected Her Most originally appeared on Daytime Confidential.
Rebecca Budig (Taylor, The Bold and the Beautiful) sat down with NBC Montana to chat about her decades of experience on soap operas, as part of promoting her new sudser-centric podcast, Soapy. Budig has come and gone from several daytime dramas over the years, but which exit impacted her the most? Her answer may surprise you.
Budig revealed that her departure from the role of Hayden Barnes on General Hospital affected her most. She explained:
I would instantly go to [All My Children's] Greenlee, but I think General Hospital playing Hayden. I was going through so much in my own life because I was like postpartum depression and anxiety, and then I worked with Michael [Easton, Finn], who encouraged me to write about it. And then I wrote it, and I shot a short film.
The Guiding Light alum added that she suffered from postpartum depression and anxiety until her daughter, Charlotte, was between three-and-a-half and four years old. Budig welcomed her only child with husband Michael Benson in 2014.
This story was originally reported by Daytime Confidential on Jul 14, 2025, where it first appeared.
