Krista Allen gets candid about her departure from Brave and beautiful.
The 52-year-old soap actress, who played Dr. Taylor Hayes for two years on the daytime drama, shared her thoughts on being axed from the show.
“I have no idea what’s going on,” Allen told PEOPLE of the show’s producers’ decision while attending the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards.
She noted, however, that she had known for “a long time” that she would be off the show, but CBS “never announced it.”
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“The contract was rejected, which is so crazy. It’s like, make sense of it,” the actress said of her dating.
Krista Allen in ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ on CBS.
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Allen, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in a daytime drama series at the Daytime Emmy Awards, said it was bittersweet to receive the nomination and announce the news that she would not be returning.
Deadline previously reported that Allen was told in October that her contract for the series would not be renewed. The last appearance on the show was on November 8.
Alen recalled that she was speechless when she heard the news.
“I didn’t know what to say, so I didn’t say anything. But yeah, there’s no better time than now,” she told PEOPLE.
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As for what’s next for her, the Emmy nominee teased that she might trade a screenplay for a writing pen.
“I think I could write a book,” Allen declared.
“It’s based on a true story… About a woman who takes on a role on a soap opera and against all odds ends up winning a fan base and being nominated for an Emmy,” she explained. “And then there’s a lot of drama going on backstage, and she has to find her way.”
She noted that the book will primarily be written for her own enjoyment – and will even have aspects of a daytime soap.
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“I think I could write something really fun, make it really dramatic and really soapy,” Allen said. “I think I could make a fun book and turn it into an actual soap opera because it kind of feels like that.”
“But yeah, it could be fun,” she added. “Could be a fun thing to do.”
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