General Hospital star Haley Pullos has been jailed for three months after pleading no contest to a DUI charge resulting from a car accident that occurred when she drove the wrong way on a Los Angeles freeway while drunk and high.
The 25-year-old actress will also have to serve five years of probation, 200 hours of community service and pay more than $8,000 in restitution to the injured driver whose car she crashed.
Pullos, who prosecutors told the court had a blood alcohol level of 0.25 percent, more than three times the legal limit, originally pleaded not guilty to two counts of DUI and another count of hit-and-run after the April 2023 accident.
But in a deal with the Los Angeles district attorney on Monday, she changed her no-contest plea to one DUI, and in exchange, the district attorney dropped the other one plus the hit-and-run.
Haley Pullos, 25, was charged with DUI following a crash that police say occurred while she was driving the wrong way on a Pasadena freeway.
Marijuana edibles and tequila bottles were found during a search of Pullos’s white 2019 Ford, photos of which show severe damage in the crash.
The actress was sentenced to three months in jail after pleading no contest, will have to serve five years of probation and pay more than $8,000 in restitution. She is pictured earlier this month outside court, hugging her mother and looking emotional.
Pullos, wearing a beige jacket and blouse and tan pants, told Pasadena Court Judge Terry Smerling, “Yes, your honor,” when asked if he understood that the consequences of pleading no contest carry the same weight as a guilty plea. .
And she showed little emotion as sheriff’s deputies handcuffed her hands behind her back and led her to the cells while her mother, Judy Pullos, sobbed.
Assistant District Attorney Melany Avanessians, explaining the plea agreement in court Monday, said that after Pullos has served three months in jail, he will return to court for a sentencing hearing on July 29.
Pullos wore an ankle brace for several weeks after the accident.
At that hearing, she will be placed on probation for five years, begin serving 200 hours of community service and have her driver’s license suspended for one year.
He will also be ordered to remain – for a period yet to be determined – in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program that he has been attending for several months.
Pullos, who has played Molly Lansing-Davis on the popular daytime soap opera since she was 11, was also ordered Monday to pay $8,260 in restitution to Courtney Wilder, 23, whose car she crashed head-on on Highway 134 Fortune. in Pasadena in April 2023.
Wilder, who was taken in critical condition to a local hospital to undergo emergency surgery, is now suing the actress in civil court, seeking damages for negligence.
Pullos was charged with a first count of felony DUI causing injury and a second count of driving with a blood alcohol content greater than 0.08 causing injury. The first charge was the one that was dismissed in the deal.
A hit-and-run charge resulting from Pullos crashing into a parked car just before the crash on the freeway was also dismissed. But even though prosecutors dropped that charge, he will still have to pay restitution to the owner of the car he damaged.
Police say Pullos, who was taken from General Hospital a month after the crash, drove her white 2019 Ford Fusion westbound on eastbound Highway 134 and crashed into Wilder’s Kia that was traveling east at 60 mph. .
Both cars were completely destroyed and when first responders arrived, police say, Pullos couldn’t get out of her car, so firefighters had to use the jaws of life to pull her out.
Several mini bottles of tequila and edible marijuana wrappers were found in his car.
And police at the scene reported that he smelled of alcohol, was slurring his speech and had glassy eyes.
After the crash, the California Highway Patrol and Pasadena firefighters released photos of what happened, showing Pullos and the 23-year-old victim’s cars completely destroyed and dumped along the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
Pullos was charged with a first count of felony DUI causing injury and a second count of driving with a blood alcohol content greater than 0.08 causing injury. The first charge was the one that was dismissed in the deal.
The injured driver, Wilder, accused Pullos in his lawsuit of “attacking” and abusing first responders in a “rage” at the crash scene, and even hitting and yelling at a firefighter for touching his expensive designer shirt.
“Haley Pullos acted maliciously and without any regard for the safety of others, as evidenced by her anger when first responders removed her from her vehicle,” Wilder said in a written statement to the court.
‘She acted maliciously by attacking officers and shouting profanities in front of witnesses and directed at those who were trying to help her.
‘In her rage, Haley Pullos punched a firefighter and yelled at him to get his hands off her ‘damn $400 shirt.’
‘Despite causing two accidents, one of which resulted in serious and life-threatening injuries, he cared more about his expensive clothing than the safety and well-being of the victim of his reckless, intentional and despicable conduct.
‘As further evidence of her abhorrent behavior, Haley Pullos continued to fight medical staff and was forced to be sedated.
“Not only was he driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, but he was drinking behind the wheel, as evidenced by the edible wrappers and empty alcohol bottles found in his vehicle.”
Pullos had played Molly Lansing-Davis on the popular daytime soap opera since she was 11 years old.
Pullos, who was discovered by DailyMail.com checking into a luxury rehab center in Malibu a few weeks after the accident, is fighting Wilder’s civil lawsuit against her, insisting it was he who was at fault, not her.
And he asks the judge to dismiss the lawsuit and order Wilder to pay his legal fees.
In January, Wilder added Pasadena’s No Comment Lounge, where Pullos was working as a hostess the night of the accident, as a defendant in her civil lawsuit, accusing the popular nightspot of plying her with alcohol and then letting her drive herself home.
Wilder is also suing the California State Department of Transportation, alleging that the road where the accident occurred is in “dangerous conditions.”
