Kathryn Hays has passed away at 88 years old. The soap opera icon was best known for playing Kim Sullivan on As the World Turns for 38 years.
Hays died in Fairfield, CT on March 25, per TV Line. Her longtime on-screen husband Don Hastings — known to the audience as Bob Hughes — released a statement after news broke of her passing. “Our relationship as Bob and Kim was as close as Kathryn and my relationship, except we were not married,” the 88-year-old actor said. “We were more like brother and sister and we were great friends.
Our biggest squabble was that she always wanted to rehearse and I wanted to take a nap. This is a huge loss to all who knew her,” he also said, fondly remembering Kathryn.
Learn more about the soap opera legend here. Related Gallery 1. She Was On ‘As The World Turns’ Kathryn made her debut on As The World Turns in 1972, and remained in the role of Kim Sullivan for 54 years — until the show ended in 2010. “I always say … it was the longest job I ever had,” she said in 2020, while on YouTube talk show The Locher Room. “Actors never have long jobs like that.
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