Darla Einstein Forrester is a fictional character from the

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The Bold and the Beautiful ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' (often referred to as ''B&B'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. It premiered on March 23, 1987, as a sister show to the Bells' other soap opera ''The Yo ...

'', played by

Schae Harrison Schae Harrison (born Deborah Schaeffer; April 27, 1962) is an American actress. She played Darla Einstein-Forrester on the American daytime soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' from 1989–2006. She reprised the role briefly in 2007, 2014, ...

from 1989 to July 18, 2006; also appearing as a ghost in July 2007, March, April, and November 2014, and in June and July 2015.

Casting

Harrison debuted in the role in January 1989, and departed in July 2006, when her character was killed off after being accidentally run over by Taylor Hayes, but made additional appearances in July 2007 as a ghost. On January 29, 2014, Michael Logan from ''

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'' reported that Harrison had reprised her role and would be returning to the show. A representative for the show said Harrison would feature in three episodes airing from March 18. The episodes saw Darla appear to her now-teenage daughter Aly (Ashlyn Pearce) as a ghost. She made additional appearances in November of the same year. In May 2015, Harrison confirmed via

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that she would be returning as Darla again as a ghost. Harrison said that she had an "awesome story line".

Storylines

Darla was born and raised in

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s, and the amount of time she spent shuffling from one place to another had a permanent impact on how she viewed herself. Regardless of how hard she tried, she couldn't stop herself from worrying that she would always be found lacking in some way. Darla occasionally appears to Aly in a cloud-like circle, and the two carry on conversations. Only Aly can see her, but she has the power to make her presence known to others, in subtle ways.

Reception

During a feature on what storylines were working and not working for the show, a ''Soap World'' reporter thought Darla's return to help out Aly was "a disaster". The reporter wondered why the producers brought back a popular character if they were not going to use all of her, saying "forcing a fun and effervescent actress like Schae Harrison to play a 'dismembered floating head' is stupid."

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