BONNIE BURROUGHS ON GH EXIT
Soap Opera Digest|October 16, 2023
Bonnie Burroughs, who joined the GH ranks as Gladys in July 2019, made her final appearance last week when Sonny sent his cousin back to Bridgeport.
BONNIE BURROUGHS ON GH EXIT

“She definitely had something coming,” acknowledges Burroughs of her scheming alter ego. She sensed that Gladys might not be long for the canvas “when I got the script where she was coming clean with Sasha and genuinely apologizing — and then turned her into the cops. I thought, ‘Oh, no! That’s terrible!’ ” On set, she got confirmation from Executive Producer Frank Valentini that Gladys’s comeuppance was on the nigh, and that she would soon be shooting her final show. “I’m glad I did get that heads-up, because if I hadn’t, when I got the script for the last episode, it would have hit me harder,” she explains.

While Burroughs is sad to be leaving GH, calling it “my favorite job I’ve ever had,” she understands that her exit is storyline-dictated. “That is something that is really a positive aspect about me digesting this,” she says. “I’m convinced there wasn’t anything I did wrong and I’m not second-guessing anything I did. Frank basically said so in as many words. He said, ‘You were only supposed to be here for a few days, and you’ve been here for four years!’ The whole thing was a gift. So even as I grieve, if that’s not too dramatic of a word to use, I just keep remembering that [the job coming to an end] doesn’t take away from the joy of all the time that I got to be there. I just loved every second of it, and that is not diminished by the fact that Gladys is gone.”

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