“As The World Turns” and “The Younger and the Stressed” alum Colleen Zenk was arrested final month in Naples, Florida, and charged with DUI leading to harm to property or particular person of one other, and DUI with a blood alcohol degree of 0.15 or higher, which is above the authorized restrict of 0.08.
In accordance with data obtained by Cleaning soap Opera Community from the Collier County Sheriff’s Workplace and the County Clerk’s Workplace, Zenk was booked on Could 15, 2026, at 7:35 p.m. EDT on two misdemeanor fees, every with a $1,000 bond.
The dispatch report notes the actress was a celebration to a crash involving two automobiles, with a witness indicating they noticed Zenk backing out of a handicap parking spot when her automobile struck one other automobile parked proper subsequent to it. The witness additional claimed that Zenk continued to again out after the crash and commenced to go away the scene, however they had been in a position to cease her just a few ft down the highway. The witness alleged that they noticed Zenk stumble as she exited her automobile.
After being suggested that the crash investigation was over, a DUI investigation commenced with the arresting officer noting that Zenk revealed she had been at Bar Tulia, the place she stated she said she had two wine cups whereas there. After answering “sure” when requested if she’d be keen to carry out area sobriety workouts, the officer indicated they noticed Zenk having problem balancing herself as she exited her automobile and, whereas strolling to the sidewalk she was requested to go to. Zenk was then requested to carry out the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus train, during which she was to comply with the tip of the officer’s pen together with her eyes with out transferring her head.
The officer said Zenk’s eyes made “speedy, repetitive and uncontrollable facet to facet actions when the tip of my pen reached an approximate 45-degree angle together with her face.” Zenk carried out the second check, the Stroll and Flip train, which the officer defined to her, and she or he responded “sure” when requested if she understood. The officer then said they noticed Zenk unable to “preserve her arms towards her physique as I informed her to do,” and that she took “greater than the 9 steps I defined to her to take going ahead after which 9 extra coming again on the road.” The officer continued with their report, indicating that “Colleen at any level throughout this train walked utilizing the ‘heel to toe’ methodology I had defined to her. The road I used to this excercise was a dividing white line on a parking house.” Lastly, Zenk was to carry out the One-Leg Stand train, with the officer observing her “swaying backward and forward” and her not having the ability to “preserve her arms to her sides as I had defined,” together with her swaying “a lot that I believed she was going to fall to the bottom.”
Following the Discipline Sobriety Workouts, a proper assertion from the witness, and one other officer on the scene, Zenk was positioned underneath arrest with the aforementioned fees of DUI leading to harm to property or particular person of one other, and DUI with a blood alcohol degree of 0.15 or higher. Zenk supplied two breath samples, with the primary yielding a BAC of 0.206 and the second a BAC of 0.192.
Zenk bonded out on Could 16, 2026, with a court docket date set for June 10, 2026. Though she didn’t seem in particular person on the listening to after submitting a Waiver of Look at Non-Necessary Court docket Appearances, she pled not responsible by way of her lawyer, with a continuance scheduled for July 29, 2026, for pre-trial.
This marks Zenk’s third DUI arrest since April 1, 2010, when the actress was pulled over by police in Wilton, Connecticut, for erratic driving and crossing into the oncoming lane of visitors, leading to fees of DUI and improper lane utilization. On Could 28, 2017, Zenk was charged with a DUI, marking her first offense and arrest in Collier County.
On November 17, 2023, Zenk returned to daytime for the primary time greater than 13 years following the cancellation of “As The World Turns,” the place she had portrayed Barbara Ryan since 1978, with a job on “The Younger and the Stressed.”
On the long-running cleaning soap opera, the three-time Emmy nominee performed Jordan Howard, the devious aunt who exploited Claire Newman’s (Hayley Erin) insecurities, terrorized the Newman and Howard households, and teamed up with Ian Ward (Ray Sensible).
Zenk made her final look on the January 24, 2025 episode, when her character drank the poisoned tea given to her by Claire.
