We’d say that The Young and the Restless never should have killed off Drucilla Winters on April 4,
2007 — except that death means next to nothing in Genoa City. Right, Diane Jenkins?
And how many times has Adam Newman risen from the grave now? What we will say instead is that it isn’t high time,
it’s past time, that the CBS soap went ahead and resurrected the character Victoria Rowell had played off and on since 1990.
We understand. It’s complicated, given the actress’ since-settled lawsuit alleging that she wasn’t considered for rehiring based on her advocacy on behalf of African-Americans both on screen and behind the scenes. There’s a lot of bad blood there.
Yet Rowell seems to still be willing to return to Genoa City. In fact, in 2020, she told Soaps.com that while Dru’s tumble from a cliff might have been fateful, it was certainly not fatal. “She never died,” insisted the actress. What happened to her “was left nebulous and open-ended.”
No, no, Dru, let them work out their shizz. You go the Frozen route and “Let It Go.”
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Heaven knows Young & Restless could do with a jolt of the electricity that Rowell brought to bear. And to have Dru back in their midst — and no doubt reeling from the revelation that her “widower” Neil is no longer among us — would lead to a seismic shift in the priorities of her impetuous children, Lily and Devon.
