Sabryn Genet responded to Matt Clark's return and her potential return late last year.

Soapcentral wrote an article based off her Instagram stories at the time, with her stating, "I hope Tricia stays in the loony bin forever. But if she is ever brought back, I wish they would ask me first."

https://www.soapcentral.com/young-and-restless/news-the-young-restless-alum-sabryn-genet-addresses-possible-return-tricia-dennison

50 minutes ago, Romalotti said:

Wait, WHAT? I saw the whole storyline but I don’t even remember Tricia having many scenes with Victor. I remember her connection with Matt Clark but that’s it.

Yeah, I wanna say she moved in into Victor's penthouse for a while for whatever reason. I cannot remember why, I am pretty sure..

13 minutes ago, Bright Eyes said:

Sabryn Genet responded to Matt Clark's return and her potential return late last year.

Soapcentral wrote an article based off her Instagram stories at the time, with her stating, "I hope Tricia stays in the loony bin forever. But if she is ever brought back, I wish they would ask me first."

https://www.soapcentral.com/young-and-restless/news-the-young-restless-alum-sabryn-genet-addresses-possible-return-tricia-dennison

It's a shame she never popped up on another soap opera.

I looked Sabryn up and it sounds like she got ill? with a nervous system disease and retired entirely from acting.

47 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I looked Sabryn up and it sounds like she got ill? with a nervous system disease and retired entirely from acting.

Yeah if I remember correctly, Sabryn got some kind of condition which is part of the reason she never acted on another soap.

ETA: I wanted to add it was a surgery gone wrong if I remember correctly.

Edited May 11May 11 by Taoboi

22 hours ago, titan1978 said:

One thing I will always give them is that Bill Bell/Kay Alden as HW knew how to give a psychopath a crescendo and make their ending thrilling. Even in that period in the 90’s when Bell was obsessed with Nick and Sharon, and the show got kind of boring. When they wanted a villain to go, they went out with a bang.

They really did. Matt Clark before the current bad writing. Tricia. Even Veronica 'That bitca Nikki' the Maid.

9 hours ago, Manny said:

Oh yes! Absolutely loved that scene (and the entire story that preceded it). Tricia is one of my favorite villains of all time and Sabyn Genet played her perfectly. Shame she never came back.

I remember being on pins and needles with that scene as a teenager. As I usually am with Heather Tom's Victoria. And even better was the fact we are viewers got to watch Tricia's spiral for YEARS. Hard to believe she went from being Ryan's boring wife to this force of nature. But Y&R was so good at showing how a person can gradually change over time, giving layers and storyline. Still mad she accidentally killed Tony, ending Megan and Tony who I actually liked back then. Sabyn Genet really did play it to perfection.

Within in B&B's history, I think the scene where Brooke runs through the hospital when she hears a gunshot and instinctively knows what Storm has done is iconic because it was one of the most genuinely sad scenes the show has had. I was literally crying when I first saw that and when Donna comes in and scream I was practically laid out bawling. KKL rocked that scene while saying very little and Jennifer Gareis did her share with just a scream.

On 5/12/2026 at 7:52 AM, Taoboi said:

Yeah if I remember correctly, Sabryn got some kind of condition which is part of the reason she never acted on another soap.

ETA: I wanted to add it was a surgery gone wrong if I remember correctly.

She had LASIK eye surgery on November 7th, 2001 - shortly after leaving the show (she was actually still airing til the end of the month) which may or may not have caused her to develop Dysautonomia.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMhcMy7gLtY/

1 hour ago, Dion said:

She had LASIK eye surgery on November 7th, 2001 - shortly after leaving the show (she was actually still airing til the end of the month) which may or may not have caused her to develop Dysautonomia.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMhcMy7gLtY/

Thank you for this. It's been so long I could not remember the details @carolineg

10 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

Thank you for this. It's been so long I could not remember the details @carolineg

Oh that's too bad. I hope she's doing well now.

I didn't start looking up soap operas until the 2010s and I'm a younger millennial. But objectively it's insane how the Robin and Stone having AIDS storyline has impacted Generation X.

23 hours ago, melanatedbtgfan said:

I didn't start looking up soap operas until the 2010s and I'm a younger millennial. But objectively it's insane how the Robin and Stone having AIDS storyline has impacted Generation X.

It’s one of those things where you legit had to be there. Although watching it now it still is heartbreaking in the classic young tragic love kind of way.

I was a teenager. I grew up with Robin, who was unique at the time for being allowed to age and stay on the show after her parents were killed off. The meds for HIV were new, and for many people they just didn’t work. It would be a couple more years before the real world science made it manageable, and nothing like the meds we have now. There had been other AIDS stories, but this one was unique because it was Robin Scorpio and GH still had a strong pop culture impact. We saw Stone decline in a very realistic way, from one medical issue to another because soaps have so many episodes. They stayed the course through falling ratings and actually having Robin be HIV+, and that was a big risk back then that no soap would do today. It was hard to watch, it also full of heart and community.

At the time, Stone/Robin on GH, Jeanie Boulet on ER, and Pedro on The Real World had an actual impact on American culture when it came to people living with HIV. Pedro being a real person telling his story and then dying had actual policy ramifications. President Clinton made a speech about his impact. Less than 10 years before that people in Reagan’s WH publicly mocked gay men dying from AIDS. Those stories were huge in what they did off the shows.

I never thought that we would ever be at risk of the kind of apathy that allowed Gay men to just die like that again, and yet here we are with research and funding being cut for PREP programs and other HIV programs. They cut all the international programs that helped with AIDS in other countries. But the cruelty is the point.

Edited 15 hours ago15 hr by titan1978

I, too, remember Pedro and the impact he continues to have on a generation that still remembers when an HIV diagnosis was an automatic death sentence. It's sad what "The Real World" would devolve into in the years to come, but Pedro's story might have been the show's and MTV's bravest hour.

Edited 14 hours ago14 hr by Khan

Robin and Pedro on top of each other were extremely visible and important. I remember just where I was for both as a very young tween. And yes, what we're living through now is very hard to imagine vs. the open and increasingly progressive discourse then, let alone 15+ years ago.

14 hours ago, Khan said:

I, too, remember Pedro and the impact he continues to have on a generation that still remembers when an HIV diagnosis was an automatic death sentence. It's sad what "The Real World" would devolve into in the years to come, but Pedro's story might have been the show's and MTV's bravest hour.

As an adult I often look back at MTV and The Real World of that era as being to only places I saw other young LGBTQ folks just existing and not being a stereotype. MTV did a lot to help LGBTQ+ folks have more mainstream lives. In other media of the era we had films/tv with gay men dying, same sex kissing with women mostly for the straight male gaze, and people being made fun of. Paul Lynde and Liberace come to mind. And even with catty Paul Lynde I see a lot of anger in his performances as a gay clown on game shows. MTV showed us living and having fun, falling in love, etc. I know people learned a lot from Pedro and then a few seasons later Danny being involved with an active duty military man, because of don’t ask don’t tell. It was a different kind of reality tv back then!

13 hours ago, Vee said:

Robin and Pedro on top of each other were extremely visible and important. I remember just where I was for both as a very young tween. And yes, what we're living through now is very hard to imagine vs. the open and increasingly progressive discourse then, let alone 15+ years ago.

I remember very vividly where I was when I learned Kurt Cobain had died, and when I saw the breaking news on MTV that Pedro had passed away.

Because we have been online during the slow decline of the soap genre I think people forget, or newer fans just don’t know, that soaps used to be very impactful and much more mainstream than they have been since the 2000’s. Robin Scorpio contracting HIV was a huge deal, and the GH of that era was still very popular with pop culture.

I’m really sad for these young LGBTQIA kids right now. They grew up in a more open and accepting environment, and they are now the first generation of gay folks that are losing rights instead of gaining them. I was a teen in the 90’s, I know what it was like to live under this stuff before and fight your way through it. But we had community then, we had bars and neighborhoods where we could be safe together. That’s all been gentrified away in most places.

Edited 45 minutes ago45 min by titan1978