Abby Newman on The Young & The Restless has had a dramatic life starting

from conception! After being born in 2000, the character was played by

a couple of pairs of twins until 2003 when Darcy Rose Byrnes took over

to play her as a child. In 2008, Abby was SORASed to a teen and played by Hayley Erin, but in 2010, Marcy Rylan (now known as Emme Rylan) stepped in as she was aged to an adult. Upon her departure from Y&R in 2013, Melissa Ordway stepped into the role and continues to play Abby to this day.

Desperate to have Victor Newman‘s child, Ashley Abbott stole his sperm from Diane Jenkins, who had swiped it from a fertility lab. Originally, Abby believed her father to be Brad Carlton, but accidentally learned the truth when she overheard her mother’s confession. The child traveled with her mother to work for Jabot in Hong Kong, and Forrester Creations in Los Angeles, and as a teenager, found herself the sole beneficiary of the Carlton estate after the deaths of Brad and his daughter, Colleen. Rebelling against her parents, she pursued Ryder Callahan and unknowingly assisted him in one of his evil schemes with his sister, Daisy Carter.

Continuing to act out, Abby wanted to start her own reality series, THE NAKED HEIRESS, and to fund it, tried both suing her parents for her inheritance and blackmailing Billy and Victoria! Abby recorded herself having sex with Daniel Romalotti for her show, but it was actually his fathering a child with Daisy that led to their breakup. Still desperate for attention, Abby took a bubble bath in the Chancellor pool during a Fourth of July party and rode a horse through the Genoa City Athletic Club while completely naked! Then she resumed her lawsuit against Victor, and this time was joined by siblings Victoria and Nick, earning them each a hefty sum.

After finding Tucker McCall with Diane, Abby was disgusted when he proposed to Ashley and arranged for her mother to catch her fiancé with the other woman. But on the way, Abby crashed into Tucker’s car, seriously injuring him! Ashley took the blame for the accident, but Tucker soon recalled what had happened. He forgave Abby and they agreed to keep it between them, but Diane threatened to expose the truth. So after Diane was found dead, Abby was one of the many suspects.

Following a short-lived relationship with Carmine Basco that only served to get her into more trouble, Abby took some time away from Genoa City to grow up a little. She sparked a brief relationship with GCPD officer Alex Chavez and went to work at Jabot with Jack. After splitting with Alex, Abby was drawn to Tyler Michaelson and they became engaged. But his ex, Mariah Copeland, ultimately managed to come between them and they split up. During a Valentine’s Day party when all the young guests were drugged, Austin was murdered, and to protect Summer Newman, Abby helped everyone cover up the crime. During the investigation to find the real killer, Summer was furious to find out that Abby had been having an affair with Austin.

Abby next got involved with Ben “Stitch” Rayburn, a handsome doctor, and when Newman and Jabot dissolved their merger, chose to work with the Newman side of her family. Although drawn to Ashley, Stitch proposed to Abby. The engagement stumbled when Abby learned Stitch and Ashley had confessed their feelings for each other, but they both promised she shouldn’t worry about it. Abby and Stitch were married on New Year’s Eve and took a tropical honeymoon. But when they came home, they had to take in his son, Max, whose mother had recently died. Max blamed Abby for his mother’s death, and went out of his way to cause problems for her, eventually causing her to fall down the stairs and miscarry her unborn baby!

The increasingly unstable Max was eventually hospitalized and a brain tumor removed. With his son in a long-term care facility, Stitch became withdrawn and distant towards Abby. and though they tried to pretend things were okay, the couple eventually divorced. Moving on with her life, Abby began working closely with Victor at Newman Enterprises and wanted to launch her own business. She began dating Zack, who had developed a dating app, but at their launch party, it was revealed he was using the app as a front for a sex ring! He threatened to kill Scott and Abby, and while the pair were locked up together, they comforted each other and had sex.