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Y&R Recap – March 8 – March 12th

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Victor goes to Heather to make sure she plans to prosecute Adam. Heather, however, informs Victor that her hands are tied without evidence or a confession from Adam. Later, Victor meets with Jack to see if he cares more about beating Victor than he does about taking down Adam. Meanwhile, Heather goes to Adam to make sure he knows just how close the walls are to closing in on him. Jack and Ashley continue to wonder if Adam and Taylor stole Sharon’s baby if they should tell Sharon about their theory. Meanwhile, as Adam tries to convince Sharon to stay with him, things from the night of Sharon’s labor start to come back to her and she comes to same realization herself and asks Adam if her baby is still alive. Sharon pleads with Adam to tell her where Faith is but he chooses to save himself and Sharon realizes just how devious he truly is and leaves him. Later, Sharon tells Ashley about her theory and is stunned when Ashley immediately agrees with her and promises that they will find out what happened to Sharon’s baby. J.T. and Victoria agree to keep their divorce amicable. Later, the divorce proceedings get off to a rocky start. However, when J.T.’s lawyer starts to attack Victoria, J.T. immediately fires him and asks Victoria and Michael to reschedule for another time. Kevin continues to refuse to believe that Jana’s letter is real and Michael tries to play devil’s advocate but has to concede to Kevin’s point of view that Jana is too outspoken that Kevin wouldn’t know something this huge was wrong in their marriage. Meanwhile, Daisy snaps photos of Lauren and Paul’s kiss at Jimmy’s. Lauren brings Paul home and as they are reminiscing about the past, Paul is reminded of all the people is has let down. Lauren tries to make him feel better and before they know what is happening they fall into a kiss. Paul stops her, however, before things can get to far and realizes that Lauren is acting strange as she talks about Michael with no guilt or remorse for what they were about to do. Later, Lauren asks Michael to help Paul with Patty’s case, not mentioning anything that happened between them earlier. Jana tries to make a run for it when Daisy releases her in order for Jana to make a call to Kevin. As Kevin is trying to get Heather to help amp up the search for Jana, he gets a call from Jana herself. Jana is cold and disconnected as she tells him to stop looking for her and that their marriage is over. Kevin is devastated when he hangs up the phone. When Jana hangs up she tells Daisy that Kevin won’t give up no matter what she said, but Daisy tells her that she had better hope he does. Sharon and Ashley talk to the hospital, mental institution and morgue and learn that there is no file of Sharon giving birth or of a stillborn baby and Sharon realizes that her child is still alive. Meanwhile, Victor agrees to return Jabot back to Kay in order to secure Jack’s help in bringing down Adam. Jack tells Victor that he will do whatever it takes to make sure Adam gets what is coming to him.

Victor comes to see Sharon and Sharon tells him about her suspicions regarding Adam and her child. Victor tells her not to worry because he has a plan but he needs her help. Sharon agrees but asks that she be the one to tell Nick that their child is alive. Meanwhile, Heather approaches Rafe to talk to him about Adam wanting to know the real reasons behind all of his devious actions last summer. Later, Billy is furious when he learns that Adam was the one behind terrorizing Ashley, not Patty. Adam meets with a man named Richard Hightower at a fast food joint and Richard embraces Adam like a family member, thanking him profusely. As Adam and Richard are talking, Richard’s son comes in and Adam realizes that he can’t go through with whatever he had planned. Later, Adam returns to Sharon’s suite and finds himself completely alone. Victor goes to see Nick as he and Phyllis are leaving Victoria with the children on their way out for a date. He tells them that he confronted Adam and now he needs their help to bring Adam down. Meanwhile, Jack tells Ashley and Billy about his and Victor’s plan and although they are weary that Jack is teaming up with Victor they realize that Adam needs to be stopped. Billy offers to bring Rafe on board to help their legal cause as well. While trying to put the past behind them, Rafe and Heather both get calls from Billy and Phyllis asking them to meet them at the G.C.A.C. to discuss Adam and they realize something big is going on.

Ashley makes a promise to Sharon to do everything she can to help her get her child back to her. Meanwhile, Billy and Phyllis plead with Heather and Rafe for their help in making Adam pay for his crimes, no matter what. At the Abbott cabin, Sharon drops the bomb on Nick that she believes their child is still alive. Later, Victor promises that he won’t fail to protect his family from Adam again. Meanwhile, Victoria and Billy run into each other and as they are talking Billy tells Victoria about the time he saw Adam at the funeral home and they wonder where that fits into the puzzle. Sharon calls Adam to come to the cabin and she and Nick lay in wait for him to get the truth. Meanwhile, after talking to Rafe, Heather decides to help the Newmans and the Abbotts in their plan against Adam. Later, Adam arrives at the cabin to face Sharon. He pleads with her, telling her that he can change if only she will she will stay with him. Nearby, Nick sends a text to someone unseen. As Phyllis’s cell vibrates and learns that Adam is at the cabin and tells Victoria, who signals Billy and the plan is set into motion. Victor, set in shadows, at the Abbott cabin, looks at an old photo of him an Adam. As Adam continues to plead with Sharon, she tells him she is sorry just as someone clocks him over the head and falls into the snow unconscious.

As Chance works on a hit and run case, Amber and Chloe decide to go visit Cane in Immigration detention before he is deported. Meanwhile, Lily worries about what could happen to Cane if he is deported back to Australia. At Immigration, Jill and Kay promise to look out for Lily for Cane and to stick together as family until he comes back. Kay has to leave to meet Tucker and while they are alone, Cane admits to Jill that Lily gets her PET scan results today and if the results aren’t good he won’t leave the country, no matter what. As Lauren remembers her night with Paul, Daisy slips more liquid ecstasy into her drink. Michael enters and tells her that it is time they figure out what is causing all her strange symptoms. Daisy brings Lauren her coffee but Lauren decides against it and she and Michael leave as Daisy looks at the photos of her and Paul at Jimmy’s. Later, Lauren and Paul are uneasy when she and Michael meet with Paul to tell him that Michael had the court revisit “Emily’s” decision to have Patty’s committed indefinitely. As Cane and Jill say goodbye, Amber and Chloe arrive and playfully offer to do what they can to help Cane. Meanwhile, Kay meets with Tucker, who tells her he would like to make her his partner in Chancellor Industries and Kay can’t help but wonder if it’s a trick. Later, Lily overhears Jill telling Neil that Cane plans to escape if Lily’s test results come back negatively. After Lily leaves to see Cane, Jill tells Neil about her expose on Tucker and Neil wonder if her motives are as noble as Jill claims they are. Kay asks Tucker for control of her company back and wonders if things between have changed enough that he is willing to give her back what was always rightfully hers. Later, Tucker gives in and allows Kay to buy back enough stock of Chancellor to gain controlling interest. Kay embraces her son for the first time, just as Jill enters with the newest issue of Restless Style to see the hug. Alone, Lauren tells Paul that there is something really wrong with her and she doesn’t know why she acted the way she did the other night. Later, Daisy slips the photo of Lauren and Paul among Michael’s things. Meanwhile, Paul promises Lauren that he won’t say a word to Michael about what happened. As Amber and Chloe are working on their plan to help keep Cane in the country by baking him the world’s most disgusting cupcakes in order to make him sick, Chance arrives to talk to Chloe. She sees how distressed he is by this case and she decides that he needs to go home. Meanwhile, Lily opens up to Daniel about her fear of losing Cane and what he may do if her test results come back negative. Moments later, Cane calls her and, not wanting to worry him, Lily promises that her results will be positive. Later, after her cupcake plan fails, Amber tries to get Michael’s help but he tells her that Cane’s case doesn’t look good. At home, Chloe pleads with Chance to back off the Riggs case for Delia’s sake as well as her own, stating that she is falling in love with him. Chance agrees and finally tells Chloe that he loves her, who in turn tells Chance the same. Later, just as Chloe and Chance are about to make love, Chance stops it, wanting their first time to be perfect. Lily gets the results of her PET scan and they aren’t good. She calls Cane and lies to him, knowing that he would do something drastic in order to stay with her otherwise. After hanging up, Daniel wonders why she lied and she tells him that she needs his help in keeping her secret and he agrees. Meanwhile, Tucker is furious as he finishes his deal with Kay and sees the article in Restless Style, wondering if Kay has just played him.

As Chance works on a hit and run case, Amber and Chloe decide to go visit Cane in Immigration detention before he is deported. Meanwhile, Lily worries about what could happen to Cane if he is deported back to Australia. At Immigration, Jill and Kay promise to look out for Lily for Cane and to stick together as family until he comes back. Kay has to leave to meet Tucker and while they are alone, Cane admits to Jill that Lily gets her PET scan results today and if the results aren’t good he won’t leave the country, no matter what. As Lauren remembers her night with Paul, Daisy slips more liquid ecstasy into her drink. Michael enters and tells her that it is time they figure out what is causing all her strange symptoms. Daisy brings Lauren her coffee but Lauren decides against it and she and Michael leave as Daisy looks at the photos of her and Paul at Jimmy’s. Later, Lauren and Paul are uneasy when she and Michael meet with Paul to tell him that Michael had the court revisit “Emily’s” decision to have Patty’s committed indefinitely. As Cane and Jill say goodbye, Amber and Chloe arrive and playfully offer to do what they can to help Cane. Meanwhile, Kay meets with Tucker, who tells her he would like to make her his partner in Chancellor Industries and Kay can’t help but wonder if it’s a trick. Later, Lily overhears Jill telling Neil that Cane plans to escape if Lily’s test results come back negatively. After Lily leaves to see Cane, Jill tells Neil about her expose on Tucker and Neil wonder if her motives are as noble as Jill claims they are. Kay asks Tucker for control of her company back and wonders if things between have changed enough that he is willing to give her back what was always rightfully hers. Later, Tucker gives in and allows Kay to buy back enough stock of Chancellor to gain controlling interest. Kay embraces her son for the first time, just as Jill enters with the newest issue of Restless Style to see the hug. Alone, Lauren tells Paul that there is something really wrong with her and she doesn’t know why she acted the way she did the other night. Later, Daisy slips the photo of Lauren and Paul among Michael’s things. Meanwhile, Paul promises Lauren that he won’t say a word to Michael about what happened. As Amber and Chloe are working on their plan to help keep Cane in the country by baking him the world’s most disgusting cupcakes in order to make him sick, Chance arrives to talk to Chloe. She sees how distressed he is by this case and she decides that he needs to go home. Meanwhile, Lily opens up to Daniel about her fear of losing Cane and what he may do if her test results come back negative. Moments later, Cane calls her and, not wanting to worry him, Lily promises that her results will be positive. Later, after her cupcake plan fails, Amber tries to get Michael’s help but he tells her that Cane’s case doesn’t look good. At home, Chloe pleads with Chance to back off the Riggs case for Delia’s sake as well as her own, stating that she is falling in love with him. Chance agrees and finally tells Chloe that he loves her, who in turn tells Chance the same. Later, just as Chloe and Chance are about to make love, Chance stops it, wanting their first time to be perfect. Lily gets the results of her PET scan and they aren’t good. She calls Cane and lies to him, knowing that he would do something drastic in order to stay with her otherwise. After hanging up, Daniel wonders why she lied and she tells him that she needs his help in keeping her secret and he agrees. Meanwhile, Tucker is furious as he finishes his deal with Kay and sees the article in Restless Style, wondering if Kay has just played him. Nick and Billy prepare to take on their roles in this battle as everyone is polled and Adam is found unanimously guilty. He pleads with Sharon on last time for her mercy but Nick has had enough and Victor and Jack wonder if they should stop him as Adam promises that he will help Sharon find her child if she is out there. In that moment, Phyllis arrives with the truth. Phyllis tells them about the letter Taylor dictated and gives it to Ashley. Ashley tentatively reads the letter and freaks out, not believing it. As Victor reads the letter to the group, Adam jumps on it, hoping to ally himself with Ashley, promising her that she knows what happened the night he delivered Faith. However, it all comes crashing down when Ashley remembers falling down the stairs, and finally realizes that it was Adam impersonating Sabrina. Ashley recounts that night for everyone as they all slow come to the conclusion that Taylor was telling the truth and Nick and Sharon finally settle on the truth that Ashley must have their daughter. Sharon nearly faints from the enormity of their realization and Nick rushes to her side, as Ashley collapses to the floor. Phyllis slips out of the cabin, unseen and Victoria helps her get away, knowing how difficult it must have been for her to tell the truth. Victor, seeing Ashley’s pain, attacks Adam, wanting the truth once and for all but Adam continues to play the victim. Later, Nick realizes Phyllis is gone and is caught off guard when Victoria tells him that she had to leave. Meanwhile, Phyllis curses herself for pushing to figure out what Adam was up to knowing now what it could end up costing her. Ashley’s denial continues as she refuses to entertain the thought that Faith could be Sharon and Nick’s child as Victor prepares himself to lose not just one but two children. Nikki offers to let Sharon stay with her and Victor while she and Nick try to sort things out in regards to Faith. As Sharon is leaving, Adam tries one last time to reach out to her but Sharon completely shuts him out and Victor promises to deal with him. Later, Nick comes home and Phyllis steals herself for what he has to tell her. Both Ashley and Sharon remained convinced that Faith is their child. At the cabin, Adam begins to panic and while Victor and Jack aren’t aware Adam grabs the fire poker and manages to get out the door and into the woods as the men go after him.

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Y&R’s Eileen Davidson Delivers the ‘Power Performance of the Week’

Taking on a DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) storyline on the soaps can be extraordinarily challenging for the performer who is tasked with making a clear distinction and delineation between the various alters of their character.

However, the other trick to playing this kind of story, is often having the various alters trying to hide the fact from those they know and love of what is truly going on with them, so as not to tip them off, as to what is happening to them as they battle for control of a person’s psyche.

The gold standard is One Life to Live icon Erika Slezak’s (ex-Viki) Emmy-winning and gut-wrenching and riveting DID storyline where we met Tori, Niki (although we met her earlier in the life of the show), Tommy, Princess, Jean and even her father, Victor.

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Now in 2024, The Young and the Restless’ Eileen Davidson is playing out a new DID storyline for the first time as Ashley Abbott. We knew decades ago that Ashley had a breakdown and has suffered psychological issues, but this has taken it to a new level. And, let’s be real, if you are going to give someone currently on a soap a DID story, who better than Davidson, who is used to playing multiple characters at one time as she did on Days of our Lives. Although on DAYS, each of the characters were their own distinct person, while now on Y&R, Ashley’s alters are fighting for control of her being,

Last week, on the Thursday, April 12th episode of the CBS soap opera, Davidson truly got to shine, as in front of the Abbott family and through what was supposed to be an intervention (they hadn’t figure out what the hell was happening to her), Ashley was flipping from alter to alter. We know there is Ms. Abbott, and Ash thus far, but there is said to be one more alter a-coming.

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In the key scenes, Davidson’s internal struggle was played pretty masterfully in a scene where she literally is in a tug of war with her alters and flings herself on the couch, while Jack (Peter Bergman), Diane (Susan Walters), Billy (Jason Thompson) and Traci (Beth Maitland) look on. Of course, there are the soap trope scenes of alters in handcuffs while the other is on the loose. And leave it to Billy to figure out Ashley is suffering from DID from his past experience.

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While this all seemed to spring from Ashley’s messy relationship with Tucker (Trevor St. John) and a throw back to an old car accident where she lost her unborn baby, is there some other underlying issue in Ashley’s past that was even more traumatizing that will be revealed as another trigger for this massive personality split? We shall see.

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In the meantime, Michael Fairman TV names Eileen Davidson’s work the Power Performance of the Week, and rest assured, come 2025, Davidson will find herself going for the third Daytime Emmy win as Lead Actress for this storyline.

So, let us know, what did you think of Eileen’s performance? Are you enjoying Ashley’s DID storyline? What do you think will happen to her next? Comment below.

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THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: “Sugar Sugar! Oh, Honey Honey”

The Bold and the Beautiful revealed at the end of the Friday April 13th episode what many viewers had guessed, that it wasn’t Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) who died when Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) stabbed her, but it had to her doppelgänger, Sugar, or at least it seems that way.

Deacon (Sean Kanan) has been beside himself since seeing what was supposed to be Sheila’s body being cremated, but revealing the body had ten toes and not nine, and we all know Sheila had cut off her toe, so she only had nine.

While explaining his thoughts that she is alive to Finn (Tanner Novlan) and then trying later to explain to Ridge (Thorsten Kaye), Deacon is more convinced that something is wrong here. Meanwhile, Finn went to talk to Steffy about Deacon’s theory, which stuns her, as she believed she killed Sheila in self-defense.

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At Il Giardino, Deacon looks at his phone then slams it down. He flashes back to the body going into the crematorium oven saying to himself, “Maybe I’m not going crazy. Maybe that wasn’t you. And if that wasn’t you, maybe you’re out there. Maybe you need my help.”

Deacon gets on Sheila’s laptop and tries to find something that might help him figure out where Sheila has gone. He looks at her text message communications and sees a section from an unknown number. He opens the messages, and Deacon reads that they’re from someone named “Sugar.”  That person said she was going to find Sheila. In the messages, Sheila made it clear she wanted no part of her. But it could be that Sheila met up with Sugar, or was forced too?

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In a quick history lesson about the character of Sugar: she was originally played by Robin Mattson on B&B, and was a former prison warden who helped Sheila escape and then joined her in kidnapping Ridge Forrester to hold him for ransom. A twisted plot ensued, where flames engulfed the foundry they were at and Ridge was presumed dead. Meanwhile, Sheila and Sugar disappeared with Massimo and Sheila’s baby, Diana.

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Fast forward to 2006, Sheila returned to Genoa City to go after Lauren Fenmore (Tracey E. Bregman) again and was arrested for attacking Scott Grainger (Peter Barton). In a shocker, when Lauren went to visit Sheila in the slammer, she learned that the woman behind bars was actually Sugar, who had been given plastic surgery and now looks exactly like Sheila.

Now the questions become, did Sheila know that Sugar was going to attack Steffy? Did they have a plan and it went awry, or was Sheila hoping she could get rid of both Sugar and Steffy, by having her daughter-in-law sent to prison for her “murder”? Or, is Sheila out there somewhere in trouble?

Share your theories via the comment section below, and if you knew all along that it would be revealed that Sugar is the person who actually died and not Sheila. But first, check out next week on B&B where Deacon gets a visit from Lauren.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Drew and Nina Get Physical; Were You Surprised or Did You Expect it to Happen?

On the Tuesday, April 9th episode of General Hospital, Drew (Cameron Mathison) and Nina’s (Cynthia Watros) explosive relationship just turned up the heat another notch.

In story, Nina who was responsible (although she doesn’t see it that way) for Drew being sent to prison for insider trading when she tipped off the SEC, let out her feelings to him about how to get back in the good graces of her daughter, Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) and Michael (Chad Duell). In doing so, she asks him for his help with it.

For months, the two have had nothing short of contentious moments, where Drew has not let Nina off the hook for what he did to him, or to his ex Carly (Laura Wright). Fast-forward and when alone in the Crimson office, Nina brings up wanting to stick it to Carly again.

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As they banter back and forth, Drew can’t figure out why he should help Nina at all with any of her manipulations. Suddenly, as he tried to exit, his shirt rips and exposes his bare chest and abs, and Nina get quite an eyeful. From there, things become physical and before you know it, Drew and Nina are making out and having their version of hate-sex.

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Cameron Mathison spoke to Soap Opera Digest on the shocking turn events, sharing, “I didn’t see it coming at all. I really didn’t. I think the audience did. Cynthia did some appearances and I guess the audience was ‘You and Drew, there’s some sexy chemistry there.’ I was like, ‘Wait, what? Really?’ I didn’t even get it. So I love it that it was very unexpected. The writers saw it, too. And, I love that it’s not a typical way for two people to be … physical. I was gonna say intimate, but there’s not a lot of intimacy there. And then as soon as it’s over, it’s back to arguing and giving each other crap again. It was really cute and really well done.”

As the fallout for their office room romp will air on the Wednesday April 10th episode, just how will the two deal with the fact that they had this fiery passionate moment in the weeks and months ahead? Will this be Nina’s new plot to get at Carly to be seen with her ex? Will Drew and Nina never speak of this again? (Well, this is a soap opera, after all, that’s pretty doubtful), or is this part of a major reset for some of the characters on the canvas now that Patrick Mulcahey and Elizabeth Korte are co-head writing the show?

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Speaking on the aftermath of the tryst, Mathison added, “The two of them are both like, all right, let’s forget about that and move on. It’s like a weird kind of aggression attraction. There’s obviously attraction there, but I don’t think either of them expected it, and I think they’re both totally shocked and surprised by it. I think Drew gets a kick out of it whereas Nina is a little embarrassed by it.”

Now let us know, did you see this coming? Did you think Drew and Nina would have sex? What do you think of the story turn? Comment below.

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