The heartbreak has come full circle — and this time, it’s final. After a year of renewed hope and the promise of a future with Ridge Forrester, Taylor Hayes is walking away… for good.

In one of the most emotional exits The Bold and the Beautiful has seen in recent years, Taylor’s story reaches a painful crescendo as Ridge shatters their engagement in Italy. What was supposed to be a celebratory chapter in their decades-long saga turns into a cruel déjà vu. After rescuing Brooke from a terrifying accident at the fashion event, Ridge does what fans both feared and expected: he proposes to Brooke — again. And this time, he doesn’t even hesitate.

Taylor, blindsided, barely has time to catch her breath before the news makes its way across oceans and hearts. She returns to Los Angeles not with a ring and a future, but with the bitter taste of betrayal and public humiliation. This isn’t just about love lost — it’s about dignity stripped away in front of the entire world.

Rebecca Budig, who stepped into the role of Taylor Hayes with grace, intensity, and warmth, now delivers her final scenes with the same quiet power she’s brought to the character for the past year. From fiery confrontations with Brooke to tender moments with Steffy and Thomas, Budig’s Taylor was a force — resilient, maternal, and vulnerable in equal measure.

But the woman we see now is broken. And she’s done playing the martyr.

In a devastating yet dignified move, Taylor informs Eric Forrester that she’s leaving — not for a break, not to regroup, but permanently. “Tell them I need peace,” she says softly, and just like that, the woman who fought so hard for love slips away from Forester Creations and into the unknown.

She doesn’t say goodbye with fanfare or fury. No shouting matches, no last-minute pleas. Just the quiet grace of someone who has finally learned her worth, even if the man she loved never did.

The impact of Taylor’s departure ripples far beyond the walls of Forester. With her exit, the love triangle that defined the show for decades is now unbalanced — Ridge and Brooke, for the moment, stand unchallenged. But can their reunion withstand the guilt of the past and the absence of the one woman who always tried to do right, even when it hurt?

As for Steffy and Thomas, losing their mother again — this time by her own choice — may shake their foundations. And for fans who had come to admire Budig’s fresh take on Taylor, this goodbye feels all too real.

Is Taylor truly gone forever? Or is this just the calm before another storm?

And most importantly… did Ridge truly make the right choice?