Here’s What Rebecca Budig Almost Did Before Being Cast on Bold and the Beautiful

It was big news when Rebecca Budig returned to daytime television last month. That’s when she started airing as a recast Dr. Taylor Hayes on The Bold and the Beautiful. The last time she was on a daytime drama was three years ago when she appeared on General Hospital as Violet’s mom, Hayden Barnes. During her break from soaps, she formed a plan that could have changed the whole scope of her life.

Psych 101

Budig recently reunited with an important person from her past, her ex-husband Bob Guiney. Yes, the podcast host formerly known as Bachelor Bob. Budig and Guiney were married for six years, from 2004 – 2010. The two have kept in touch over the years, and they had a wonderful time catching up earlier this month on Guiney’s Almost Famous podcast.

When they discussed the actress’s break between soaps, she told Guiney and his fellow Bachelor franchise co-host Trista Sutter (the OG Bachelorette) about what she was close to doing with her downtime.

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“I told my agency I can’t leave town. My husband has a full-time job,” the wife and mom explained to Guiney and Sutter. “And I was like, I’m here. And as you know, nothing shoots in LA, so I’ve been basically doing nothing. Going to acting class, whatever. I was going to go back to school, study psychology, and finally get my degree. And then this show came along.”

Little did she know that she would ultimately play a therapist on B&B. Dr. Taylor Hayes, after all, is a renowned psychiatrist who uses her considerable skills to help her kids with their dramatic lives and people in underserved communities around the world. For now, playing a doctor on TV will do. But the former All My Children actor isn’t giving up on her school dreams.

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“I play a psychiatrist, and I’ve always gone to therapy for whatever, for years, and I’m interested in it, and I believe in it,” Budig told the Almost Famous hosts. “I was going to go — I still might, actually, because I never got my degree, and I want it, so… I’ve gotta study something.”