The Girl Who Has Everything
Though Abby Newman (Hayley Erin here) was born on Easy Street to not one but two fabulously wealthy parents, her life was one hard knock after another.
A Love to Last a Lifetime… or Two: The Romance of Young & Restless’ Chance and Abby [PHOTOS]
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‘Don’t Leave Home Without Your Floaties’
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI First Abby (Darcy Rose Byrnes here) lost stepdad Brad Carlton (Don Diamont, now Bold & Beautiful playboy Bill Spencer) to a freak drowning accident.
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Maybe Just Stay On Dry Land?
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI Then Abby lost half sister Colleen to yet another freak drowning accident (at which point she was reunited with Dad, who’d apparently been hanging out underwater all that time like a super-ripped Casper). Despite all that waterborne tragedy, Abby was bound and determined to get…
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Wet and Wild
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI Instead of just enjoying being richer than the rest us put together, Abby (then Emme Rylan) endeavored to become Genoa City’s own Paris Hilton. It didn’t go super well. On the plus side, the self-proclaimed Naked Heiress was never without a date on a Saturday night.
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Meanwhile, On the Other Side of the Canvas…
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI Virginal Chance (then John Driscoll) was finding out just how much women love a man in uniform. Though his heart belonged to Chloe Mitchell, he loaned out his body to Heather Stevens for just long enough to get his marriage plans shot down.
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‘OK, Mom, That’s Enough Pictures… Seriously’
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI Abby (now Melissa Ordway) finally retired her little black book in 2015 when she tied the knot with handsome doctor Stitch Rayburn. If only he hadn’t been as attracted to the mother of the bride as he was to the bride herself. And if only he hadn’t had an unstable son who caused Abby to miscarry. And if only… Yeah, you get the idea. If only the deck hadn’t been stacked so high against their marriage succeeding.
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Did Somebody Order a Superman…
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI … ’cause that was what Abby got when action figure Chance Chancellor (then Donny Boaz) saved her from a hostage situation at the Grand Phoenix, the hotel that she owned with half brother Nick’s on-again/off-again lovers, Chelsea Lawson and Phyllis Summers. (That’s Abby turning away in the back; she couldn’t bear to watch for fear that blood would be spilled on her freshly polished lobby floor.)
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Keep Your Friends Close…
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI … and your enemy’s boyfriend closer? For a hot minute, it looked like Phyllis was going to take that approach to Abby’s beau. He was, as you can see, a man she could really look up to. But he soon made it clear that Victor and Ashley’s daughter was the only affluent knockout with whom he wanted to canoodle.
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Fire and Ice
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI After a romantic ice-skating date, Chance and Abby decided to thaw out by making love for the first time. The one problem? Picking a room out of the many in her hotel in which to seal the deal.
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The Unsexiest Kinda Bedroom Scene
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Of all the potential obstacles there were to Abby’s relationship with Chance, one she never anticipated was his history with her half brother, Adam — a history that wound up getting her new honey shot. Upon recovering from his injury, Chance decided that he wanted to spend the rest of his life — however long or short that might be — with Abby. Do we really need to tell you that she accepted his proposal?
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Don’t Mind If ‘I Do’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI When Abby tied the knot with Chance (then Justin Gaston, Ordway’s real-life spouse), it was an eleganza extravaganza, the wedding of the century, nuptials so lavish, they wouldn’t be topped for… “Oo, Ashland Locke and Victoria Newman are getting hitched?!? Now, this will be something to see!”
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‘First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then… ’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Immediately, Abby and Chance wanted to start a family. “Not so fast,” said viewers the fates. She soon learned that she couldn’t conceive. What’s more, Kids ’R’ Us doesn’t actually sell kids. So Mariah Copeland was recruited to act as the couple’s surrogate.
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‘You Want My *What*?’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Again, Abby and Chance thought that they were the fast track to parenthood. “Not so fast,” viewers the fates again told them. Turned out, he had too few swimmers to really make a splash, so to speak. So Devon Hamilton was recruited to make a, uh, donation to the cause.
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You’ve Gotta Be ‘Kidding’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Though Chance was called off on a top-secret mission, Abby went full-steam ahead with their baby-making plans, shower and all. Thankfully, everything went totally smoothly from that point on. As if! Everything went to hell in a handbasket. It wasn’t even a very nice basket.
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‘Are You at All Claustrophobic?’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Bad enough that Abby had to handle all of her and Chance’s great expectations on her own, but then a very-preggers Mariah went missing and was eventually revealed to have been kidnapped by Stitch, of all people. Somehow, in his twisted mind, he thought he could impress his ex by rescuing Mariah from… um… himself. Yeah, not a great plan, buddy.
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‘It’s Push, Abby, Not Pull… Never Pull’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Just in time for Bowie Dominic to make his debut, Mariah was found and helped through labor by Abby and Devon. They also finally got her out of the orange sweater she’d been wearing for weeks. (Whew.)
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A Dream Shattered… or *Was* It?
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI No sooner than Abby had mastered the art of wrapping Dominic in so many blankets, you could hardly tell there was a baby in there, she was informed that Chance had been killed in the line of duty. In other words, she’d gone from newlywed to single parent in the time it takes us to add one plus one. With a calculator.
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Life After Love
Image Credit: CBS screenshot Since Chance’s body was never found following his supposed death, Abby refused to believe that he was really, much less most sincerely, gone. Instead, she bided her time, taking off for Italy, where he was “killed,” and talking to a box of his belongings — you know, as one will.
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Hey, Good-Lookin’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI It would soon turn out that Abby’s skepticism was well-founded, as her “late” husband would be returned to her with a new face (that of Conner Floyd).
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‘Say What Now?’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI There was just one teensy problem. Chance refused to go home with Abby. He wanted to finish the mission that he’d already started. Which, if we were her, would have been our cue to say, “Uh, what about the mission you and I already started? His name’s Dominic, by the way.”
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Cheer Ye, Cheer Ye
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Eventually, Chance did wing his way back to Genoa City. But he brought with him more man pain than brown sweaters — and he had a lot of those. Still, Abby stood by him, suggesting counseling, antidepressants, laughing gas… whatever it took to perk up her hunky Debbie Downer.
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‘OK, But Seriously — Where’s the Baby?’
Image Credit: © Howard Wise/jpistudios.com By and by, Chance began to seem more like his old self. He and Abby even weathered the storm of a blink-and-you-missed-it health scare for Dominic like he’d just had the hiccups. In the background, however, real trouble was brewing.
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And *This* Is Why You Always Knock
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI What are the odds? Chance walked in on Abby “rearranging the sofa cushions” with Devon at the exact same moment as his girlfriend, Amanda Sinclair. Their reaction to the tawdry tableau could be best summed up by Bon Jovi: Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame; darlin’, you give love a bad name.
