Drucilla Winters' Photo Scrapbook | Played by: Victoria Rowell

Actress History: Victoria Rowell (1994-1996; 1996-2000; 2002-2007)
Kent Masters King (2000)
Dawn McMillan (1996)

Occupation: Director of Newman Enterprises Consolidated Cosmetics Division
Former Spokesmodel for Jabot Cosmetics Tuvia line
Former Top Paris fashion model
Former ballerina, gave up for modeling
Former photographer's assistant
Worked in the Jabot Cosmetics mailroom

Resided at: A highrise apartment at 345 Ashland, Apt. 321

Spouse: Neil Winters (married until her death)

Past Marriages:

1. Neil Winters (divorced; first time)

Relatives: Walter Barber (father)
Lillie Belle Barber (mother)
Olivia Barber (sister)
Nathan Oliver Hastings Jr. (nephew)
Mamie Johnson (aunt)

Children: Lily Winters (daughter with Malcolm)
Devon Hamilton (son by adoption)

Friends: Sharon Abbott, Victor Newman, Lauren Fenmore Baldwin, Michael Baldwin, Jack Abbott, Kay Chancellor, Jill Abbott, Nikki Newman

Enemies: Brad Carlton, Daniel Romalotti, Yolanda Hamilton, David Chow, Carmen Mesta (desceased), Phyllis Newman

Reputation in town: Speaking her mind, not backing down from a challenge.
The beloved Winters matriarch.

Most Memorable Scenes: Her unfortunate death over the cliff, believing that she was seeing the deceased Carmen Mesta. Revealing to Nathan Hastings that she couldn't read. Being stuck in an elevator with her nemeisis, Phyllis Abbott, and getting drunk on a bottle of tequila.

Unforgettable Lines: "Wild horses couldn't pull me out of Genoa City right now." "That woman should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town. Sharon, do not let that two-bit whore destroy your marriage."

Young and Restless Character History:

Drucilla Winters showed up in Genoa City in 1990. Living on the streets with a life filled with crime, Dru was caught pick pocketing Detective Nathan Hastings. Although Nathan let her go, Dru knew she needed to change her ways and turned to her Aunt Mamie for help. John Abbott allowed Dru to move into the Abbott mansion, gave her a job in the Jabot mailroom and she was on her way to a new life.

However, soon after, Nathan caught Dru shoplifting at Fenmore's, but convinced a judge to release Dru into his custody instead of going to jail. Seeing as Nathan had been from the streets, too, he taught Dru how to read, write and to act properly in society. Just as Dru had fallen in love with Nathan, she found out that her uppity, flawless sister Olivia was his girlfriend! Although their relationship was filled with jealousy and envy, Dru and Olivia became close throughout the years.

Dru soon fell in love with Jabot executive trainee Neil Winters and became Jabots new model. Although the couple was mismatched, Neil and Dru went on to marry. While Neil was out of town, his brother Malcolm stopped in to check up on a sick Dru. Heavily medicated, Dru thought Malcolm was Neil, Malcolm thought Dru wanted him, and the two slept together! After Dru became pregnant, Malcolm and Dru agreed that the baby was Neil's and swore to take their secret to the grave.

When Lily was born, Neil expected Dru to become a stay-at-home mom. However, Dru went right back to modeling. After months of arguing and trying to make their marriage work, Dru took Lily to Paris and filed for divorce. Years later, Dru and Lily briefly came back to Genoa City so Dru could denote her bone marrow to save Olivia from a disease, then returned to Paris.

It wasn't until 2002 when Dru and Lily returned home for good to help Neil who had become a full blown alcoholic after Malcolm was presumed dead as a result of a car accident in Kenya. Dru convinced Neil to go to rehab, took a job at Jabot, and turned down her boyfriend Wesley's marriage proposal to make a life in GC with Neil and Lily. When things didn't work out at Jabot, Dru climbed aboard at Newman Enterprises with Neil and the couple soon remarried.

For a while, Dru and Neil were swamped with work, leaving Lily with a lot of time to get into trouble. Although Lily ran into the arms of Kevin Fisher, who ended up using her, Neil and Dru were able to work together and save their daughter from losing more than her virginity. Dru went on to help out troubled teen Devon Hamilton, and convinced Neil to become Devon's foster parents.

Miraculously, Neil's brother Malcolm returned from the dead after surviving the car accident, which everyone thought had been his demise. After much protest from Dru, Malcolm demanded a paternity test on Lily, which proved her to be Malcolm's biological daughter. Again, they agreed to keep the secret from Neil. To make matters worse, Lily ran off and married Daniel Romalotti!

While arguing with nemesis Phyllis Abbott about Phyllis finding out that Lily was Malcolm's daughter, Lily overheard and was crushed! Dru's relationship with Lily was damaged and after Neil found out, he and Dru separated. In 2006, Dru briefly moved in with her best-friend Sharon Newman who was also going through a separation. Thinking her relationship with Neil would benefit by giving him some space, never did Dru think that Neil would run into the arms of another woman.

Dru followed Neil and Carmen Mesta around and even caught the two kissing! Dru later ended up in jail after breaking into Carmen's room and cutting up all of her clothes. Although Dru was sentenced to probation and had a restraining order against her, Dru couldn't take Carmen's taunting attitude and assaulted her at Newman, which in turn cost Dru her job. In the middle of the mess, Devon came down with meningitis and as a result became deaf.

Neil soon saw a different side to Carmen and thought better of pursuing their relationship and went back to Dru, blaming himself for her legal troubles where Carmen was concerned. It wouldn't be long before Neil found Carmen dead behind his club with people looking to Dru as a suspect! Although the Winters have pulled together, the murder of Carmen still lingers over their heads.

In January 2007, Carmen's ex-lover, David Chow showed up in town, determined to make sure that Dru paid for Carmen's murder! Immediately after his arrival, Dru's apartment was ransacked and her clothes were found ripped to shreds all over her living room! Dru had fight, to not only prove her innocence in the murder of Carmen Mesta, but also to prove that David Chow is out to frame her!

After Sharon asked Dru to be her maid of honor at her upcoming wedding to Jack Abbott, Dru accompanied her and their mutual enemy Phyllis to a cliff side photo shoot for NVP. When Phyllis decided to reveal Sharon's affair with Brad Carlton to their friends and family, Drucilla made it her business to interfere, grabbing Phyllis's cell phone from her, causing Sharon and Drucilla to fall into the water below. As Lily and her then-husband, Phyllis' son Daniel, looked on, Phyllis fell back to the ground with her phone in hand. However, Drucilla fell over the cliff to her apparent death. A nearly dead Sharon, who fell from the cliff with her, was eventually pulled from the freezing water, and was taken to the hospital to recover. After search and rescue found Drucilla's jacket, the police reclassified the rescue attempt to a recovery operation searching for Dru's body. Drucilla died from the fall from the cliff. Her body was never recovered, and on April 6, 2007, she was presumed dead.

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