Hello and welcome to Soap Dirt, the latest in television entertainment news. Hey Y&R fans, Belinda from Soap Dirt here, and I want to talk about Ashley Abbott and the literal just crazy things going on with her right now. She is in a mental health spiral, and we now have an official diagnosis confirmed by actress Eileen Davidson, although her character hasn’t seen a doctor to diagnose her, but we know what it is. Let’s unpack and talk about what it means, but please subscribe first if you have not already.
So apparently they’ve been planning this mental health crisis as a slow burn for quite a while, way back to when Ashley and Tucker went on their Paris honeymoon. Eileen Davidson mentioned she and head writer showrunner Josh Griffith talked about kind of doing an homage back to her mental health issues in the 80s when she had a couple of nervous breakdowns, and this time things seem to be so much worse. Eileen said that they kind of approached this to do it in a more subtle way, especially in the beginning.