Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless, General Hospital, and many more have shocked audiences when deciding to leave.Alison Sweeney, for example, surprised longtime Days of Our Lives fans in 2014 when she announced that after 21 years on the soap opera, she’d be exiting.“I’ve been on Days of Our Lives since I was 16 years old, and I have never had more than a two-week vacation in that whole time,” the actress, who joined Days in 1993, said on The Ellen