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Bold and the Beautiful<\/em><\/a> alum Hunter Tylo<\/a>, who played the original Taylor Hayes on the long-running soap, has opened up about her time on the show in a rare interview, revealing a storyline she once turned down.<\/p>\n Tylo has kept a low profile since her last appearance on the daytime drama series, which came in 2019. However, she recently appeared on the Unexpected Cosmology<\/em> YouTube Channel,<\/a> where she admitted to once threatening to walk off set after a scene in the script hit a little too close to home.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think people understand what they\u2019re getting into by wanting to be an actor or an actress,\u201d she said, per MichaelFairmanTV<\/a>. \u201cI have, in the past, temperamentally walked off of a set. I have refused to say things or do things because either they didn\u2019t jive with what I believe in, or I could just see how flat-out wrong it was.\u201d<\/p>\n The All My Children<\/em><\/a> actress went on to share how she lost her son, Mickey, in October 2007. Mickey died at 19 years old when he suffered an epileptic fit and fell into their home swimming pool. When Tylo\u2019s onscreen daughter Phoebe (MacKenzie Mauzy) died in a car crash in a December 2008 episode, the similarities became too much to handle.<\/p>\n \u201cThey [the writers] will start taking your real life, and then they\u2019ll write it into the story. So, you get to live it twice,\u201d Tylo stated before opening up about her son\u2019s tragic passing.<\/p>\n \u201cThe next thing I know in the script, one of my daughters dies. She gets hit and killed in a car wreck,\u201d she continued. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018What? I can\u2019t do that. I can\u2019t do this!\u2019 This only happened like three weeks ago or two or whatever, however long it was. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n Tylo added that she started to turn up later and later to set, explaining, \u201cMy body was saying, \u2018Don\u2019t do this. Do not relive this because you\u2019re going to have to use real life to get the tears to flow. You\u2019re going to have a meltdown or something.’\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere were a lot of people talking who were bad mouthing me\u2026 \u2018Look at her. She\u2019s late to the set all the time. Look at her. She\u2019s just acting like a drama queen,’\u201d the Days of Our Lives<\/em><\/a> alum recalled.<\/p>\n Tylo revealed how there was one scene in particular that she refused to do. \u201cThey wrote a scene where I\u2019m supposed to go to the morgue to identify my daughter, which everybody knows what a parent would really have to do. I did have to go through that,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd they wanted me to reenact it, live it, and do this whole thing of grieving and holding her body and her toes and her hands, and kissing their head like you do,\u201d Tylo continued. \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to do that. I said, \u2018I don\u2019t care. Fire me. Goodbye. This ain\u2019t happening. I mean, it\u2019s not for sale. My pain is not for sale, okay?’\u201d<\/p>\n Sharing her advice for those thinking about a career in acting, Tylo warned, \u201cIt\u2019s not all roses. It\u2019s not all flashy cars and limos and gowns and red carpets and lights are flashing and everybody loves you. It\u2019s not. Sometimes people hate your guts and sometimes you\u2019re doing stuff that is extremely traumatizing to yourself. So that\u2019s my two cents.\u201d<\/p>\n