Daytime Emmy-nominated actress Haley Pullos recently turned herself in to the Los Angeles County jail system to complete her 90-day sentence after causing a freeway crash in 2023.
Pullos pleaded no contest to a DUI charge related to the hit-and-run crash she caused on a Pasadena freeway in April 2023. After completing 90 days in jail, she will be sentenced to five years of probation and 200 community hours. service. She will also be ordered to pay the victim $8,000 in restitution.
Mark Daniel Melnick, Pullos’ attorney, said People“Haley is very grateful to the court for a minimum sentence and for recognizing her remorse and the progress she has made in her sobriety.”
General Hospital Actress Nancy Lee Grahn defended Pullos on social media following his sentencing. “As Haley’s TV mom, I can say some truth about her, as I have loved her since she was a little girl. “She made a HUGE mistake, she knows it, she acknowledges it and she has spent the last year doing EVERYTHING imaginable to take responsibility,” she said. wrote.
According to the police report obtained by TMZ, Pullos caused a head-on collision on a motorway after jumping the barrier into oncoming traffic. She had also been involved in a hit-and-run earlier that night. The other driver suffered serious injuries, but no fatalities were reported.
When first responders arrived, they found marijuana edibles and tequila inside his car.
Police also said he showed “clear signs” of being under the influence, noting “the smell of alcohol on his breath, slurred speech and watery eyes.”
At that time, Pullos announced that he would be taking a break General Hospital to recover from a car accident, although he did not reveal the circumstances.
She was charged with felony DUI, felony driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.08% causing injury and misdemeanor hit and run resulting in property damage, according to Entertainment Weekly.
“Charging Haley Pullos with felony DUI causing injury underscores the seriousness of this alleged crime,” a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office said in a statement, according to People.
Pullos pleaded not guilty, but ultimately reached a deal to have one of the DUI charges and the misdemeanor hit-and-run charge dropped.
Pullos rose to fame playing Molly Lansing-Davis in General Hospitalwhich she first joined in 2009. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for her performance in 2015.
The role has since been recast. Holiday Mia Kriegel replaced her after the accident and, later, Brooke Anne Smith. Kristen Vaganos has since taken over.
