Exclusive: Debbi Morgan Finally Talks about Her Hush-Hush Role round the Youthful as well as the Restless

Debbi Morgan There will soon be plenty of Harmony in Genoa City... and several folks won't appreciate it one bit. Emmy-winning phenom Debbi Morgan - formerly Dr. Angie Hubbard on my small Children - will join The Youthful as well as the Restless on Friday, October 7 since the ne'er-do-well, drug-addict mother of Devon Hamilton (Bryton James). Fans are actually familiar with Morgan's character, who was simply formerly known to as Yolanda when the role was carried out by Chene Lawson (2005-06). Nowadays, Yolanda is becoming in the crack, named herself Harmony and contains started a completely new existence just like a waitress in the Milwaukee diner. TV Guide Magazine went lower for the Y&R set to talk to Morgan about her hot new gig and, clearly, to fire place in the million-dollar question: Will she and Peter Bergman (Jack) finally circumvent compared to that interracial romance they weren't allowed to own 22 in the past on AMC?TV Guide Magazine: You have been a sizable Y&R nut, right?Morgan: I have always loved Y&R! [Laughs] It's my job to use to convey to Victoria Rowell, "Personally, i can't stand you, Vicky! If perhaps they'd eliminate you therefore i could seriously that relate because you know they'd not have access to two black divas on concurrently! Or else you is certainly going do Angie and I'll do Drucilla!" We familiar with laugh relating to this constantly. Who'd have ever thunk?TV Guide Magazine: Reveal about Harmony.Morgan: It's so nice to defend myself against a completely new group of shoes. The moment the truth is Harmony she's 180 levels from Angie. Angie was our world mother. Harmony features a real edge to her and, unlike Angie, she's no educated lady. She'd no relationship with Devon as soon as he was produced. She would be a substance abuser who gave her child for the grandmother to think about proper proper care of, then when the grandmother died, the boy fell into the promote care system. Now she will get her act together, or otherwise she's trying.TV Guide Magazine: What brings her to Genoa City? Morgan: She's not a clue what's been happening with Devon - that his father, Tucker [Stephen Nichols], might be the boy of Katherine Chancellor [Jeanne Cooper]. Really, that's still a sizable secret in Genoa City until Phyllis [Michelle Stafford] puts the story on the internet. Harmony sees what is the news around the customer's laptop while employed in the diner and comprises a beeline to Genoa City to reunite with Devon. Clearly, she doesn't get yourself a warm reception. Devon's furious they abandoned him and doesn't want anything associated with her.TV Guide Magazine: What's Tucker's reaction?Morgan: It's states Devon was the consequence of one-evening stand between Harmony and Tucker. Your evening meant the earth to her - Tucker was the adoration for her existence - nevertheless it meant so little to him he doesn't even recognize Harmony after they meet again. Not just a clue! It's as being a dagger through her heart.TV Guide Magazine: And Mrs. Chancellor?Morgan: [Laughs] Oh, sherrrd like Harmony to stay in Genoa City by herself selfish reasons. She and Tucker have been in odds and he or she desires to put it to him! Ulterior motives, baby! And Harmony knows it. She's much less stupid! I merely love that Jeanne Cooper. This type of hoot.TV Guide Magazine: How extended has Harmony been sober? Does her druggie past remain a sizable problem here? Morgan: I'd say she's been clean for your a year ago roughly and you also see her around the telephone, checking together with her sponsor. You will discover always people emotional triggers that are a hazard as a substance abuser as well as the rejection from Devon can be a large one. But she's waiting on hold and keeping strong. If you feel you're alone and possess no love within your existence you'll be able to so easily relapse, causeing this to be harder than she could ever imagine. But she is going to stay and fighting wishing her boy will sooner or later accept her.TV Guide Magazine: What's along with your character's title change?Morgan: [Executive producer-mind author] Maria Bell described she just hated the title Yolanda! And therefore, because Yolanda and Tucker both was formerly inside the music business, Maria emerged while using title Harmony. The trunk story is always that Tucker handled a rock-band inside the eighties and Yolanda will be a groupie who adopted this rock band around from city to city. She grew to become pregnant by him and was afraid to see him, so she went rather for the road manager who wound up offering her money to acquire an abortion. She only decided to be livid! When she meets tabs on Tucker in Genoa City, he claims he'd not a clue the manager did that. She's unsure if you should believe him or else. Sherrrd like to consider she's not just a little of something at the bottom of Tucker's shoe, however he really goes after her, proclaiming that she's a no-good mother.TV Guide Magazine: Therefore I guess we won't see Harmony and Tucker coming back to any kind of romance... or are we able to?Morgan: Well, through all his anger she does search for a minute of hope here or there, hope that maybe she did mean something to him. She thinks he protests a lot of! And So I am wanting we have to see with this particular a little more.Television Guide Magazine: What about Harmony and Jack Abbott? If you and Peter Bergman attempted a romance back on AMC there has been lots of complaints within the audience that Bergman wound up getting fired.Morgan: Who knows? [Laughs] Maybe Harmony will use function as black Erica Kane! People are actually connecting in the dots and so are supposing that Harmony will discover yourself with Neil [Kristoff St. John]. It might be excellent once we went somewhere unforeseen. That was this kind of factor with Peter in older times! AMC was getting everything hate mail which we understood they'd need to part ways High high cliff and Angie which in our midst might be from employment. I merely assumed it may be me, nevertheless it was Peter! He'd just purchased a condo in NY. His wife was pregnant. I used to be so shocked they did that to him. However eventually Peter calls me from La and states he'll an audition being Terry Lester's alternative on Y&R which i mentioned, "Peter, don't walk compared to that audition. F--king run! It'll be the role of your life!In . [Laughs] He notifies that story to this day!Tv Guide Magazine: Why perhaps you have jump to another cleaning cleaning soap so quickly? You are probably the rare handful of in daytime which has also juggled major films and primetime, too. Why not see what else can be obtained?Morgan: Like a lady in this business, being from the certain age group, just as one Black, the jobs just aren't there personally in considerable amounts. Although soon after I signed a couple-year deal with Y&R, my manager got a telephone call that there's interest to own me play opposite Denzel Washington inside the movie Flight, that's shooting from October to December. [Laughs] The timing could not are actually worse! But you know what happens? I'm Confident with it, because I wasn't prone to turn lower an element similar to this round the No. 1 cleaning cleaning soap! Maybe essentially reaches my twenties or my thirties I'd have held out. While not now. I needed this just before being introduced that AMC would the net now people request me essentially regret not remaining there. Certainly not! That is business.TV Guide Magazine: And, you know, these shows would drop you'll need a hot potato whether or not this suited them!Morgan: [Laughs] Ain't the reality! In my first visit to Y&R, I went into Jacob Youthful inside the hallway at CBS. We'd done AMC together which he just visited The Bold as well as the Beautiful. I hopped up into his arms which we simply howled and howled with laughter within the craziness from this all!Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!