Soap actress Melody Scott Thomas is back at The Young & the Restless (weekdays, e.tv, 16:40) after a major 5 month absence because the soap produced by Sony didn't want to pay her. What followed was plummeting ratings for the most popular soap in America on the CBS network.
The news that the very popular Melody Scott Thomas was gone from The Young & the Restless broke in June after she was already gone for the month of May. Now she's back in Genoa City as Nikki newman after 5 months after Sony asked her to return and she signed a new contract.
''They have come around and suddenly appreciate me again in the way that [Y&R creator] Bill Bell did back in the old days,'' Melody Scott Thomas told TV Guide. She said she doesn't know what happened regarding Sony who stopped using her since the end of April, saying ''Sony would have to tell you, but they won't.''
''I don't want to be the one speculating why they did what they did and why they finally came to me when they did, other than to say I'm very happy to have this whole ugly five months done and over. Strange things happen in this business. I don't know that we ever really know exactly why things go down the way they do. I just know it was never my decision to be gone,'' Melody Scott Thomas told TV Guide.
