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The Young and the Hung Star Files Law Suit
Topic Started: Feb 12 2015, 01:07 PM (139 Views)
Katherine Chancellor
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UPDATE, Wednesday 4:09 p.m.: CBS has responded to Rowell’s lawsuit, telling TheWrap in a statement that the suit has “no merit” and that they will “vigorously defend” the case.

“We were disappointed to learn that, after leaving the cast of “The Young and the Restless” on her own initiative, Ms. Rowell has attempted to rewrite that history through lawyers’ letters and a lawsuit that has no merit. We harbor no ill will toward Ms. Rowell, but we will vigorously defend this case,” CBS said.

Previously….

“The Young and the Restless” may be done with Drucilla, but the actress who played her isn’t done with the show. At least from a legal standpoint.

Victoria Rowell, who played Drucilla Barber Walters on the daytime soap, has filed suit against CBS and Sony Pictures, claiming that she wasn’t re-hired in retaliation for her “public and private complaints regarding the lack of diversity in front of and behind the camera on the show.”

Rowell, who joined “Y&R” in 1990, claims she “reluctantly left the show in 2007 after facing years of racial discrimination” and sought to either return to the soap or join its sister series “The Bold and the Beautiful,” beginning in 2010. However, according to a press release issued Wednesday, her requests have been denied “by those in charge of hiring at Sony and at Bell-Phillip Television Production Inc., with CBS’s CEO allegedly pulling their strings.”

The actress notably went off on a Twitter tirade in March 2014, saying that the show has a distressing lack of African-Americans in key positions.

“Young & Restless on air for 40 years, loyally watched by their absolute competitive-edge audience (blacks) & not ONE black Exec PRODUCER?” Rowell tweeted at the time.

“ONE black writer in 40 years on a program overwhelmingly watched by African Americans,” she added.
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Brendad Ickson
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Um... Drucilla honey, if I remember correctly, Phyllis shoved you over the edge, down a cliff and you drowned in the river below. As in DEAD. AS. A. DOOR. NAIL. Dead Drucilla, sweetie.

Maybe that's why you weren't hired back.
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Tybee
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I'm just amazed any of the suds are still on. Is "As The Stomach Turns" still running?
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Brendad Ickson
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Well hello..... I'm pushing 70 or more. How do I look?

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Edited by Tybee, Feb 12 2015, 07:27 PM.
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Tybee
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What a strange creature she is. Poor thing seems so deluded that she actually believes she's a major celebrity, and lives in that fantasy world 24/7.
Edited by Tybee, Feb 13 2015, 05:41 AM.
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Erna
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we hate fish
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