Young and Restless’s Devon Married Hilary On Her Deathbed And Other Big Moments From July 26

In 2010, One Life To Live's Evangeline Williamson (Renee Elise Goldsberry) was taken off life support and passed away. She had lingered in a coma since 2007, when Goldsberry left the show. Her sister, Layla Williamson, and Layla's husband-to-be, Cristian Vega, had traveled to Baltimore to share the news of their engagement with Layla's mother, and they learned that Evangeline had been rehospitalized and was being kept alive by machines. When the family learned that Evangeline had signed a living will, indicating she did not want to be sustained by artificial means, her mother made the decision to turn the life support system off.

In 2016, General Hospital’s Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) assured daughter Kristina (then-Lexi Ainsworth) of his love after a candid talk about her sexual orientation. She admitted that she had fallen for her female professor, Parker, and Sonny gently asked, “What are you afraid of, Kristina? That I wasn’t gonna love you anymore? That I was gonna turn my back on you?” She nodded tearfully and he told her, "You are my daughter. No question. No matter what.”

In 2017, Days of Our Lives's Abigail (Marci Miller) angrily confronted her lying husband, Dario (Jordi Vilasuso), for manipulating her into marrying him, complete with a slap across the face!

In 2018, Young and Restless's Devon (Bryton James) and Hilary (Mishael Morgan) remarried on her deathbed. The tragic turn was scripted when Morgan decided to leave the show after a five-year run. In advance of her exit, Y&R reunited "Hevon," but a dramatic car accident left Hilary critically injured with not much time left. Devon insisted on making her his wife, again. In her hospital room, the bride and groom exchanged vows made even more moving by the urgency of the moment. She passed away in her husband’s loving embrace on the following episode.

In 2022, Robert Newman ended his Daytime Emmy-nominated run as Ashland Locke on Young and Restless. The character had followed his ex, Victoria (Amelia Heinle), to her home in the midst of a storm and raged at her for destroying his life. Ashland became menacing and threatened Victoria, so she wielded a fire poker to defend herself. Her brother Nick (Joshua Morrow) arrived on the scene and quickly got physical with Ashland. He decked the villain, who fell and hit his head on the fireplace hearth. As blood poured from his head, Nick and Victoria tried to resuscitate him, but couldn't find a pulse. In his exit interview with Soap Opera Digest, Newman noted, "I really liked playing the character. I worked really hard to keep him from being a one-trick pony bad guy, you know? When I approach a character, I am looking for the human being inside that character.... I do think that good people are capable of doing bad things and with Ashland Locke, I was really fascinated with the story of a man who’s done these terrible things in his life and is now trying to reform himself and seek redemption. I was very interested in that story. The problem in Genoa City is, even if Locke finds his redemption and turns himself around, why would you stay in a town where everybody hates you so much, you know? Even I could see that as a problem for the character. He’s not really connected to any family there — he’s not a Newman or an Abbott, except through Victoria, and by the time we finish with Victoria, he’s done with her, he’s been conned twice by her. I just didn’t see any reason for him to exist any further in that town."