However, she left the series after season five, when her character was run over by a car. Everyone assumed she was dead, but in 2009, Sydney came back for the "Melrose Place" reboot.

Savant — who, in a “Melrose Place”-worthy plot twist, married Leighton in 1998 and welcomed two children with her — was appreciative of how important the role was, according to Thorne-Smith.

If you tuned in every week to see what Billy, Jake, Jo, Jane, Michael, Sydney, and Alison were up to, who was dating whom, who stabbed whom in the back, and who stole a husband or blackmailed ...