Andrea Evans' face and name are instantly recognizable to soap fans everywhere.

Even still, Evans reveled in her personal life away from the cameras.

“[The fear] forever changed me.

Andrea Evans posing

There’s no way it could not,” Evans toldPeoplein 2008.

“I prayed a lot.

It was a lot of baby steps.”

Young Andrea Evans posing

“Things have come full circle,” the actor remarked at the time.

“It’s time to give the audience what they want.

And it’s time for me to get closure on why I left in the first place.”

Andrea Evans posing

… And on a professional level, I want them to see how funny I can be."