This week's issue of Soap Opera Digest reports that Michelle Ray Smith -who has played Ava Peralta Lewis on Guiding Light since 2005 - has been let go from the series.

There have been rumors circulating around the Internet for months of Smith's departure; her character will not be recast

We'll have more information on this story as it breaks, but the actress' final schedule air date on Guiding Light is July 28.