Man, everybody needs a Sugar in their life. You may not remember the Bold & Beautiful baddie when her name pops up again — and we’d bet a toe that it will — but once you find out that it was she who died at the wrong end of Steffy’s kitchen knife, not her monster-in-law, you’ll never forget her again.

It was 21 years ago that we met the character, who never had a last name. (Maybe because with a first one like Sugar, who needs it?) Brought in to play out her short arc was soap legend Robin Mattson, whose bad-girl roles include Heather Webber on General Hospital, Gina Capwell on Santa Barbara and “Janet From Another Planet” Green on All My Children. Needless to say, she slayed as the tough chick who’d become Sheila’s accomplice in a mad plot to to get Ridge Forrester’s biodad Massimo Marone to fork over $100M for the dressmaker’s safe return.

Sugar was sweet on Ridge’s half brother, Nick.

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We don’t need to tell you that the mad plot failed, do we? Good.

Gullible Sugar thought that Sheila was not only a criminal mastermind but her bestie. How wrong she was. Though Sheila promised Sugar that they’d soon be starring in their own personal version of Absolutely Fabulous, their days filled with hot guys and cold drinks, the psycho broke her vow. (Shocking, right?) What’s more, Sheila set up Sugar to undergo plastic surgery to turn her into an exact replica of her!

Displeased with her extreme makeover, Sugar sought revenge on her “best gal pal” by crossing over to Young & Restless and stabbing Scotty Grainger, the now-grown son that Sheila had stolen as a newborn from his real mom, Lauren Fenmore. This didn’t go super well for Sugar, who wound up being sent back to the very place that she’d met Sheila: prison.

What can we say? Mattson has a “type.”

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Unless we’re not better detectives than Deputy Chief Baker — and we’re pretty sure we are — eventually, it will be discovered that it was Sugar that Steffy fatally stabbed, not Sheila. Why would Sugar stalk the daughter-in-law who hates Sheila as much as she does? You’ll recall that Sheila recently said that she’d been meeting with someone from her past. We’re guessing that that was Sugar, and that, having read the writing on the wall, Sheila spun a tall tale about how close she and Steffy were. “I don’t know what I’d do if I ever lost her,” we can just imagine Sheila saying.

Seizing upon that idea and running with it, Sugar might have decided to do to Steffy what she didn’t manage to do to Scott: kill her as payback for Sheila’s beyond shoddy treatment. Unfortunately for Sugar, Steffy is mega-rich, so she sprang for the extra sharp Ginsu knives, one of which stopped her attacker’s heart from beating. Only later — weeks from now, we reckon — will anyone think to check the feet of the deceased and notice that they have 10 toes, not the nine that Sheila infamously has since she pretended to have been eaten by a bear in 2022.