‘The Young and the Restless’ (Y&R) spoilers tells that if there’s one great thing about working on a daytime television show for many long years, it’s the fact that you get two sets of parents: your real life, biological parents and of course, your on-screen television parents.
Y&R star Beth Maitland (Tracey Abbott) knows this well, as she recently paid tribute to her on-screen mother, Marla Adams (Dina Abbott). Here’s what she has to say.
‘The Young and the Restless’ Spoilers: Beth Maitland Pays Tribute To Her Y&R Mother
Genoa City recently mourned the life of Dina Abbott, who passed away from complications related to Alzheimer’s. Marla Adams has played the role on and off since 1983. Speaking to TV Insider in a new interview, Beth admits that Dina’s passing would be inevitable, as her character, Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) and Ashley Abbott (Eileen Davidson) all came together to mourn the loss of their mother.
Beth puts it this way, “It is complicated. It’s an interesting requirement of the Abbott children, the ones who are Dina’s children, to find a way to navigate their feelings. When they were children, Dina left them with no explanation and returned from time to time to bring nothing but pain, continued rejection, and continued complications. Dina lived a very self-motivated life and wasn’t willing to sacrifice any of that for her three offspring. It was a difficult pill to swallow, not just from the 1980s when she first came back, but as her children continued on with life. Traci asked herself, ‘How do you be a mother when the one you had was a poor example?’”
Beth also hinted now that Dina is gone, there’s a chance that her character will rise up to be the more maternal figure for everyone in the family.
She said, “She’s the ‘auntie’ everyone goes to. She came by that either being raised by wolves – or John Abbott (Jerry Douglas). The children had to find a way to be alone. They had John and [family housekeeper] Mamie (Veronica Redd) and other loving examples, but those characters had to find a way to be a parent without having had that example. Then, Dina comes back, broken. We asked, ‘Do we sink to her level and send her away or do we be the people we’ve become and live by our father’s example?’ That’s the key to this story – forgiveness.”
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