 After 8 seasons and the 1st 2 episodes of Season 9,  Jane Wyman (qv)s health was in a crisis, so she had to leave the  show knowing that she was following her doctors advice. The  doctors told her that she wouldve either been paralyzed or had  found dead, if she were to keep working, therefore, the producers  put Angela in a coma, for almost the entire season. But came back  (against her doctors advice) for the last three episodes and wrote  an incredible soliloquy as to who left Tuscany Valley.