While Taylor was married to Ridge in 1994, she headed to the Middle East for a business trip. But the plane went down and she was believed to be dead because her baggage was recovered. Everyone had a funeral for her back home, but it turned out that after Taylor exited the plane during a layover, she was mugged in the airport, robbed of everything, and ended up with amnesia. When she woke up, she found herself at a palace belonging to Prince Omar Rashid (Kabir Bedi) of Morocco.
Although Taylor's identity was discovered, Omar had fallen in love with her and kept it a secret. He also learned that Ridge had married Brooke Logan, thinking Taylor was dead. Omar renamed her "Laila," and asked her to marry him. However, Taylor found a file about herself, causing her memories return, but she was now a prisoner of the Prince. After their marriage, Omar invited Brooke and Ridge to visit him and made Taylor secretly observe their happiness through a two-way mirror in a soundproof room.
Jack Hamilton (Chris Robinson), Taylor's father, had a heart attack, so the Prince reluctantly let her visit him, surprising everyone that she was alive. Omar had secretly followed her and saw she was taking care of Ridge, who was blinded in an accident. Although he insisted that Taylor was his wife, a court decided that she was still married to Ridge, so Omar unwillingly went back home to Morocco.
