Crystal Chappell

Yeah.

So, um, yeah, it was, it-- That's why Lawrence and I were cast on "Bold and the Beautiful," is because when we were leaving "Guiding Light," my mom, of all people, was like, "You guys should make something else." And Issa Rae had just started doing "Awkward Black Girl." Crystal Chappell was doing "Venice." And so we were like-

Hmm.

"Well, okay."

And Rinna's perspective is not isolated.

It is corroborated by his prior co-star, Crystal Chappell.

In her own memoir, The Perfect Art of Imperfection, Chappell wrote that from the moment he arrived on set, he presented as an aggressive, mean-spirited bully.

She summarized her experience by stating simply, I was afraid of him.