However, it wasn’t always like that.
In fact,Nikki’s scandalous pastis something that viewers still remember most about her.
At the time, she was young and impressionable and coxed into performing at The Bayou strip club.

It wasn’t all bad, though.
The Bayou is where she met Victor for the first time and left him captivated by her.
Instead, an alternative idea was ultimately deemed too risque for daytime television.

However, that story arc almost never came to fruition.
She said, “I got called to [producer] John Conboy’s office.
‘What would you think of Nikki being a mud wrestler?’
I was so thrilled.
Scott went into further detail about the preparation for the potential mud wrestling storyline.
It’s hard to believe now, but it was very popular!
So Roberta [Leighton, Casey Reed] and I would go.
We would go there every night!
That was not the original plan.”