Scott Clifton (Liam, B&B) “Learning about my grandfather, my dad’s dad. When my dad was like nine years old, his father, who was a traveling salesman, just disappeared one day and never came home again. Nobody knew what happened. When I was a little older, my father hired a detective to find out what happened to his father. It turns out that this man was known across the country as ‘Jake the Fake’. He was a legitimate con artist, and he would marry someone, have kids, start a family, do his con and when the walls started closing in, he would skip town, start a new family and [assume] a new identity. That’s pretty soapy.”
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Cady McClain (Jennifer, DAYS) “I was hit with a kidney infection while I was at work [as ALL MY CHILDREN’s Dixie], and they had to have an ambulance come in and take me out of there. And it just felt like, ‘How much soapier can you get? I’m on a soap and then you have to have an ambulance come and roll me out on a gurney.’ It was pretty, pretty ridiculous. I was really embarrassed.”
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Patrika Darbo (Nancy, DAYS) “My husband [Rolf] picking up my pantyhose in a parking lot and then asking me out on a date. I was doing a [play], and my pantyhose fell out of my bag. He was the stage manager, and he came running across the lot waving my pantyhose at me going, ‘You dropped these. Would you like to go out Friday night?’ I thought, ‘What kind of person does he think I am … a cheap slut? This is awful.’ ”
Kathleen Gati (Obrecht, GH) “About 30 years ago, I was living in Manhattan on the fifth floor of a walk-up building. My neighbor called me frantically to say there were people in my apartment. I immediately called the police. The place was a disaster — clothes everywhere, drawers opened and ransacked. But we found no sign of a forced entry. I checked everything, and nothing seemed to be missing. I thanked them and they left. But after looking around a little bit longer, I realized that I had made that big mess in the morning when I had rushed to get ready for work! My neighbor must have heard someone on the roof.”
Camryn Grimes (Mariah, Y&R) “I once feverishly confessed my love to someone in the rain on a New York summer night, which ended with a passionate kiss that I pulled away from as I whisked myself into a taxi and wordlessly fled.”
Heather Tom (Katie, B&B) “I met a woman in a mall one time and she was with a guy and she said, ‘I am going through the same exact thing that Katie is going through right now. My husband just can’t stop thinking about my sister,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, wow. Okay.’ And she said, ‘Well, it’s alright as long as everyone is happy.’ And what I was thinking was, her husband is standing right next to her with this look on his face and I said something like, ‘See, we are not that far off. Many people are going through the same thing.’ ”