Sad News: Billy Miller Died on Friday

I'm not doing Top Ten Tuesday today because I am so upset at the passing of Billy Miller. If you didn't know him, he was on Y&R for awhile as Billy Abbott and on GH as Jason Morgan/Drew Cain. He did such a great job on there, but they let him go. After giving him the part of Jason Morgan, they asked the original actor Steve Burton to return to the role. That left Billy hanging. He said it was okay because they offered to let him help create his new character, but they never went anywhere with it. They stuck him behind a desk so he was just playing Billy Abbott again. Worse yet, they took away his on-screen wife Sam McCall even though both actors thought they should stay in a relationship. They had her throw him over for Jason. Eventually, they put him in an elevator never to be seen again. The characters mention he died in a plane crash, but no one seems to give a crap! This upset me so much that I had trouble watching the show after that.

Now they have another actor in the role of Drew Cain, and they had no problem at all giving him a lover and a storyline. That just burns me. No one on there seemed to care when Drew Cain supposedly died, but when he resurfaces with a new actor playing him, these same characters are gushing over him and acting like they care. Oh please. Eye-roll.

Billy Miller's mother sent out a statement to let everyone know that her son was in a deep depression and couldn't go on. That is so terribly sad. If someone with a great career, money, and tons of people that loved him couldn't go on, what about the rest of us?