Melissa Claire Egan Tears Up Remembering Late Y&R Co-Star Billy Miller (Exclusiv

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00:00 --Your entire cast, everybody at YNR has very much been on our hearts this year

00:03 with the loss of Billy Miller. How are you guys doing?

00:07 --You know, I don't want to cry.

00:11 He's the greatest, and being here there are a lot of Billy memories because he

00:16 like won a hundred of these. He was so good.

00:19 --I see you smiling through the tears.

00:22 --Yeah, yeah. He was just the best and we love his sister and his mom Pat, where he

00:26 just sent them so much love. And yeah these things are a big reminder of him,

00:30 so it's it's emotional. But he his amazing work and his amazing generosity

00:34 and memory will live on forever.

00:36 --Yeah. I know that it's been a tough year. How have you as a

00:39 cast been able to bond together to really make sure that his legacy remains

00:44 intact?

00:45 --We, it's so funny you ask, we literally just had our holiday party last night

00:48 and it was a really funny video Lizzie and Amelia made and at the end was a

00:51 beautiful Billy tribute because he just means so much to every single person,

00:54 every single crew member, every single actor. Everyone's like has such a soft

00:58 spot for Billy Miller. And so we just talk about him a lot at work. We we you

01:03 know had him in the video last night. We he's just always on our minds and we're

01:06 always sharing stories because he was such a riot. He was so funny that we're

01:10 like Billy would love that. Billy would do that. Billy would think that was funny.

01:12 Like we just talk about him a lot and keep his memory alive because I know

01:14 he's he's here with us tonight for sure.

01:17 --It's just so sad and he played you know my

01:21 son-in-law on the show. He's so I knew him and I'm I'm very sad. We all are.

01:27 We're all very sad. In fact, we had our holiday party last night and they did a

01:32 video and they showed us all these pictures of everyone with him. So, but I

01:38 feel his presence too, you know? And so we have to keep going and we have to do

01:45 great and win for him. You know there was something he was a brilliant actor and

01:50 there was something about that smile and that look in his eye and I'll never

01:55 forget it. He was always kind.

01:58 --You know it's it's actually chokes me up still now.

02:00 I've known Billy since my general hospital days, so this is you know eight

02:05 years of a relationship and he's one of the best people I've ever met and such a

02:10 bright star and the world is a little dimmer without him. Billy was a light. He

02:15 will always be a light. He's the most charismatic, kind person. When I booked

02:19 Young and the Restless from GH, he was the first person that sent me well

02:22 wishes and promised to introduce me to anyone I needed to. He's missed.

02:27 --I know you're very very close as a cast. How have you guys been supporting one

02:31 another over the year?

02:33 --Um, I think everyone has just been showing up, just showing up and being

02:37 present and being their best version of themselves.

02:40 --I mean we're doing as well as can be.

02:41 It's you know it's unbelievably unfortunate and I only could wish the

02:50 best to his family and I hope that he's at peace.

02:55 He was a fun fun guy. He always had a smile on his face and I think that's

02:59 what made his character and his acting so great was that he brought himself and

03:03 that spark of fun, even when he's being serious or being you know angry or bad

03:07 kind of guy like his character was, he brought that levity and that that

03:11 light that he brought to his own life. And he was such a I just it was crazy

03:17 because before what happened to him happened, I had just looked up some of

03:21 his past episodes because I wasn't feeling really good about some of the

03:24 work I've been doing and I wanted to watch someone that I really admired to

03:27 kind of study you know and and yeah he was he was one of the best.

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