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Andrea Evans was a major soap star on One Life to Live when her life was upended by a stalker

Evans spoke to PEOPLE about the harrowing ordeal in a 1993 cover story

Evans — who died in 2023 — left acting because of the stalker, eventually returning to television

Andrea Evans was just 20 years old when she landed her breakout role as Tina Clayton on ABC's One Life to Live. But her acting dreams were put on hold when a stalker began to threaten her life.

Evans — who died in 2023 at age 66 — described her ordeal to PEOPLE correspondent Maria Eftimiades for a 1993 cover story.

Thirty-four years old at the time of the story, Evans spoke about how the situation began in July 1987, when she took her parents to a taping of Regis Philbin's The Morning Show .

"I had appeare

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