After Ripa introduced the role of Hayley Vaughan to viewers, she quickly became one of the most popular characters on the soap opera.
[2] On April 14, 2011, after the impending cancellation of All My Children, Live with Regis and Kelly honored the character of Hayley with a special video montage,[3] as Ripa felt saddened by the loss of the series.
Arlene, unable to let her daughter take the blame for her crime, confessed and went to jail for her role in the scheme.
Hayley and Brian got engaged, but her ever-controlling father, Adam, saw to it that this relationship came to an abrupt end.
Hayley slowly turned against nearly everyone who loved her, due to Will's manipulations and staunchly defended him when Gloria Marsh accused him of rape.
Adam turned over the CEO position of Enchantment to Hayley as a consolation prize in order to control her.
Tanner arrived in Pine Valley from Texas and immediately accepted a job as a waiter at Holidays.
Determined to win her over, he tried everything in his power to break up Mateo and Hayley – including paying an actor to impersonate his alcoholic father.
He convinced Hayley to fly with him under the guise of surprising Mateo while he was in Texas, but instead he faked a forced emergency landing near a cave in Virginia where he drugged and raped her.
When Erica visited Enchantment and saw how poorly it was being run by the management team Hayley had installed, she made an offer to buy back the cosmetics company.
Life was blissful for Hayley and Mateo until tragedy entered their lives once more in the form of Jim Thompson.
Jim, a surviving passenger on the airplane flight that took Maria Santos Grey's life, created a phony relationship with Brooke English in hopes of hiding the fact that he was responsible for the plane's destruction.
In retribution, Lee kidnapped Hayley, hid her in carnival tent, and tattooed her shoulder with a rose using lead-base paint.
Mateo came to her rescue, but Hayley was left unable to have children because of a dangerously high level of lead in her blood.
Hayley's relationship with Mateo was furthered strained when she championed Ryan Lavery in his quest to prove his innocence of a rape charge.
She found herself jailed for aiding and abetting Ryan – an action that puts Mateo's custody of Max in jeopardy.
Hayley found her desire to take a drink becoming unbearable because of the stress of having to put her life on hold.
Hayley initially doubted the claim, but Raquel continually reminded her that Mateo had also lied about being previously married.
Arlene declined the offer, but after she miscarried she called Hayley to Chandler Mansion with the claim that she had reconsidered.
He tracked her down to an exotic island in the Caribbean and hauled her back to Pine Valley just in time to prevent Hayley from confessing in court that she had killed Arlene.
On August 29, Hayley delivered a healthy baby boy, whom they named Lorenzo, or "Enzo," after some brief complications.
Now free from the drug trafficking, Mateo and Hayley were able to return to the more important things in life – like raising their son.
Life took an unexpected turn in late 2002 when Hayley was told that there was an interest in syndicating her Wave talk show.
She explained that she'd missed her Uncle Stuart's funeral because she'd been in a remote region of Australia at the time working.
Enzo was a teenager and Max had been sent to a boarding school in Utah because he'd started hanging out with the wrong crowd and butting heads with Mateo.
Hayley did a bit of head butting of her own: she strongly disapproved of her father's new wife, Annie Chandler.