I used to watch Y&R every weekday, but got away from it and started watching again when Cassie was in the hospital. My question is how did Katherine become Jill's mother?
2006-09-23 16:30:06 · 5 answers · asked by Sonya 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
Out of the blue in 2003, Jill's mother Liz showed up in Genoa City from her home in England with the news that Liz was to undergo brain surgery, and knowing she may not survive, felt it was time to admit to Jill that she was adopted. All she knew was that her husband Bill brought Jill home wrapped in a blanket as a baby. Jill was fraught with needing to know who she really is. Larry and John are doing their best to let her know that she is the same person no matter what her parentage, and they do care. The night before Liz's surgery, brothers Snapper and Greg showed up too, not seen in Genoa City in 20 years. Liz survived her surgery. After a aborted attempts to con and steal her birth certificate from the hospital records by Jill then Larry, Jill's friend, banker Frederick Hodges, contacted a search agency. They were able to arrange a meeting between Jill and her birth mother, the always-tipsy, crusty, down-on-her-luck, Charlotte Ramsey. Liz gave her blessing to the meeting while Kay fumed at how Jill was so quick to abandon Liz. Jill and Charlotte were becoming close, while John Abbott was getting suspicious that Charlotte was more interested in Jill's money. John realized that he used to date Charlotte's sister Eileen in high school, and without telling Kay why quizzed her for what she knew about the family. Kay, after much agonizing, revealed the story of how she had once helped Eileen's sister Charlotte get an illegal abortion which she nearly died from which left her unable to have more children. John did the math and realized that there was no way then that Charlotte could be Jill's mother. John confronted Charlotte who broke down and revealed that she and Katherine "ran the town together" during a year of separation from Kay's first husband Gary who took young Brock to Europe. During that time, Kay got pregnant by Gary's golfing buddy Arthur Hendricks. To protect the reputation of the young Katherine Shepard, Charlotte agreed to take Kay's newborn baby girl to a place to be adopted in exchange for a lot of cash and a promise to disappear. The agency refused to take the child without a name on a birth certificate, so to protect young socialite Kay, Charlotte had used her own name. Charlotte went to Kay to tell her story before John did. Kay had a stroke when she realized that the baby she gave up many years ago was now her own worst enemy Jill ! Charlotte told poor Elizabeth the truth and abruptly left town, leaving her to tell Jill that her nemesis Kay is her birth mother and Brock that the young girl he once married in Jill, but fortunately never consummated, was actually his half sister. And worst of all, Mac and Billy who are about to be married, had to be told that they are actually cousins! Mac and Billy both left town on their own, devastated by the news. Jill was left to care for Kay who could not move or talk from the stroke. As Kay got better, she didn't let Jill know, testing her to see if just maybe she might care for her like a mother. But eventually Kay showed Jill she was nearly back to normal, and thanks to the influence of Larry, Jill was able to begin to come to grips with how she really feels about Kay. Jill and Kay fought over the disruption of having Esther around, so Kay and Esther moved into the Genoa City Hotel to give Jill some space. Jill then became so obnoxious to Larry she drove him away too. Jill is very much alone and turning to the bottle a little too often. Her only friend appears to be the shady strip club owner, Bobby Marcino.
2006-09-23 17:14:02 · answer #1 · answered by ladyluck527@sbcglobal.net 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Katherine got pregnant when she was young. She gave the child up for adoption. It was Jill. Katherine did not know that Jill was the child that she gave away for years. Katherine knew she was Jill's mother before Jill found out she was Katherine's daughter.
2006-09-23 23:42:32 · answer #2 · answered by BUPPY'S MEME 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Liz told Jill right before Billy and Mac were to be married, and that Katherine was her mother!
2006-09-24 13:35:05 · answer #3 · answered by pam d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She gave a baby up for adoption when she was young. Jill went to look for her mother and, to funny, huh.
2006-09-23 23:38:58 · answer #4 · answered by tinamaries43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah thats what i like to know? i've read it on soap tv mag i didn't know they were mother and daughter..how funny is that?..lol they fought one another and thier living togather
2006-09-23 23:42:21 · answer #5 · answered by favsweetcake 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋