Emily Stewart
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| Portrayed by | Janine Sagan (mid 1970s) Pat Reynolds (mid 1970s) Jenny Harris (1975-1979) Marissa Morell (1979) Colleen McDermott (1986-1987) Melanie Smith (1987-1990; 1992) Kelley Menighan Hensley (1992-) (27 March 2007 on Y&R) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Emily Stewart (formerly: Snyder, Munson and Ryan) is a fictional character on the daytime soap opera As the World Turns. She has been portrayed by Kelley Menighan Hensley since July 1992.
Kelley Menighan Hensley took over the role of Emily Stewart in July 1992. Ten years laser, the actress received her first Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress.
Awards and Acclaim
Daytime Emmys Nomination, Outstanding Supporting Actress (2002) --Kelley Menighan Hensley
Daytime Emmys Pre-Nomination, Outstanding Supporting Actress (2006, 2007, 2008) --Kelley Menighan Hensley
Soap Opera Digest Awards Winner, Best Supporting Actress (1998) --Kelley Menighan Hensley
Character History
Emily Stewart was born to Dan and Susan Stewart. Emily's parents divorced shortly after she was born; her mother sent her to live with her father. When Dan became afraid that Susan was going to take Emily back, he fled the country with her. When he returned with Emily, there was a custody battle, which Susan lost. Emily spent most of her childhood shuffled between her father and alcoholic mother. When Emily was about 8 years old, her father died. That same year, Susan left town with Emily.
Emily returned to town at the age of 17 and became involved with James Stenbeck. When she tried to break her ties to James, he blackmailed her by threatening to frame her for murder. Emily soon found herself pregnant with James's child. To give the child a name, she married Holden Snyder. Emily miscarried the baby and Holden divorced her when he learned she lied about the child's paternity. As she was dating a mobster named Brock Lombard, Emily, in an effort to annoy Barbara Ryan, offered her son, Paul Stenbeck a summer job. Although Barbara tried to put a stop to it, Emily forced her to keep quiet by threatening to reveal Barbara's secret--that her husband, Hal Munson, was the father of Margo Hughes's baby. In the meantime, Emily and Paul were becoming close. Then one night, after one of Emily and Brock's big blow-ups Paul came over and found her inconsolable. His comfort led to a kiss ... and another ... until Emily took Paul's virginity. After that, a lovesick Paul started sending Em flowers and romantic notes, but she told him that what they had was a one-night stand and resumed her affair with Brock. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to anyone, James was back and lurking around Oakdale. When he discovered that Emily was involved with his son, he became enraged and attacked. Luckily for Emily, Paul arrived and needing to protect her from James's wrath, Paul grabbed a gun (given to Emily by Brock Lombard) shot his father dead.
Over the next several years, Emily chased after several men. All the men she fell for were either taken, deceitful, or both. One such man was Craig Montgomery, her boss at Montgomery & Associates. However, Emily had competition in the form of Ellie Snyder, who Craig was attracted to. Hoping for an advantage, Emily did some digging and found some interesting tidbits about Ellie's past. Unfortunately, Ellie told Craig all about her past before Emily had a chance. Very soon after, Emily began a flirtation with her client, Brock Lombard, who was pursuing his old lover, Ellie. However, when Brock learned about her affair with James Stenbeck, he angrily denounced her as a slut and went back to pursuing Ellie. Soon after, a repentent Brock, eager to break away from his mobster family, returned to Emily and asked for forgiveness. After a tense confrontation the pair ended up making love and began a passionate affair. When Brock's father, Philip, tried to threaten Emily into staying away from his son, Brock turned around and threatened to turn state’s evidence if Emily was harmed. Not long after, Emily confessed to Brock the reason that James had died--she’d slept with his teenaged son, Paul. To her surprise, Brock was forgiving and informed her that he was planning on divorcing his wife in secret so that he and Emily could be together. Unfortunately, not long after Brock was found dead. Although Emily was convinced Ellie was the killer, the true murderer turned out to be Philip (who had put an unsuccessful hit on both Emily and Ellie)
Finally, Emily did manage to find true love with Royce Keller, a renowned architect. At that time, Emily had started working on an account while working at Lucinda's former company, Walsh Enterprises (now being run by Lucinda's stepchildren, Connor and Evan Walsh), For, of all people, Lucinda's new son-in-law, Damian Grimaldi. Damian Grimaldi ran his family's company, Kingsley-Malta and his new wife, Lucinda's adopted daughter, Lily Walsh Grimaldi had convinced her husband to move the company headquarters to Oakdale from Malta (the original owner of the Kingsley cosmetics division, Patricia Kingsley also influenced Damian's decision.) Damian set up a contest between Emily and Lucinda's longtime right hand man, Kirk Anderson (who was at loggerheads with WorldWide's new attorney, Scott), as to who would handle the Kingsley-Malta account in Oakdale and Emily won the contest. Unfortunately this put Royce uncomfortably in the middle, since Royce was still working on the construction design for WorldWide's new building. As if things weren't bad enough, Royce became a bit verbally abusive to Emily over the situation with Kingsley-Malta. Then Royce's former fiancée, Cynthia Linders showed up in town and started pulling Emily aside at Lisa's restaurant the Mona Lisa, telling Emily that Royce in their relationship was much more than verbally abusive, but was also physically abusive. Royce tried to reassure Emily that Cynthia was overblowing the nature of their relationship, but than one evening Emily would get a call from Cynthia to come over to her suite at the Lakeview and Cynthia dropped the bombshell on Emily that she and Royce were still engaged. Emily then told Royce that they were over (but only temporarily, she forgave him a short time later.) Later, Emily was shocked to see Royce be arrested for his sister, Neal’s, murder. (Margo Hughes had found the evidence was pointing more and more to Royce being the murderer.) But Emily had more reason to be shocked to see Royce being arrested for the murder, because while they were a way in Malta, Royce confessed to Emily that he and Neal were siblings. Of course Royce left out the part that Lucinda, Emily's enemy, was he and Neal's half-sister. Emily stood by her man, as Royce was put on trial (even hiring a top notch defense attorney named, Sam Hayden) and was convinced that something wasn't quite right about Royce being Neal's murderer. However, on the witness stand, Royce broke down and it was like he became another person (literally), actually he became two different people (confusing everyone in the courtroom.) Royce literally became a little kid, calling himself, Dooley. Dooley apparently was one of Royce's two other personalities (this was the shock the psychiatrist tried to warn Lucinda about.) Dooley tried to get out, but in a definite child-like way (approximately about 5 years old), what he witnessed the night of Neal's murder. But another personality was about to emerge (obviously to everyone in the courtroom, Royce suffered from multiple personality disorder from the abuse he suffered from when he was a child.) This other personality was named, Roger, and Roger tried to yell down Dooley not to tell anyone what happened. For a few tense moments, it looked like Roger was going to have Royce and Dooley totally shut down. Luckily Dr. Wyndham got Dooley to be in control of the body (although not without some periods of lucidity for the personality named Roger.) Dooley told the court that the night of Neal's murder, Royce had seen Scott Eldridge leave Neal's apartment in a very angry mood. Neal at first cried to Royce about what happened between her and Scott and the very angry confrontation between the two of them. Neal then tried to convince Royce that it was time for them to go to Lucinda and all of Oakdale and tell them the truth about her and Royce being Lucinda's half-siblings. But then Roger emerged and Roger was furious that Neal would think about doing something like that. Neal apparently was aware of the Roger personality (although, she didn't apparently know about Dooley, who was apparently the childlike protector for Royce.) Neal tried to get Roger to let Royce come back, but Roger refused and Roger then shoved Neal into the fireplace mantel where she hit her head and died. Royce was found not guilty because of insanity and eventually Dr. Wyndham succeeded in getting the personalities merged into one. Although the pair then made plans to marry, Susan convinced Royce it would be best to cancel since he was no longer the man Emily fell in love with. So, Royce left, devastating Emily. She became engaged, again, to Jeff Hamlin, only to have him leave her when he learned she purposely caused her mother not to get an out of state job, just so she wouldn't leave Oakdale. The reason Emily didn't want her mom to leave was Alison McDermott. Emily's mother wanted to have a baby by her new husband. So Emily offered to donate her eggs which would be fertilized and inseminated into Susan. the procedure was a success and Alison was born. Emily had a hard time accepting Alison as her sister, rather than her daughter.
Emily then had a disastrous affair with Diego Santana. Diego was not who he seemed to be, and had actually tried to kill Damian Grimaldi (he was a business rival of Damian's; Damian was thought to be dead for over two years), Samantha Markham Anderson (Diego would try and pass himself off as Samantha's teacher when she was blind), and finally Margo Hughes. When Emily was getting closer to the truth, Diego raped her in her own house. Soon after, Kirk Anderson shot and killed him outside of the church where Diego and Lily's marriage took place. Afterwards, Emily stole Diego's body, in a hearse (while masquerading as a funeral home driver). Diego's corpse showed up a couple of places in town, before it would end up going to it's rest Later, Emily became involved with David Stenbeck. She eventually realized that David was too close with his father, James, and ended the relationship. She found support through her friend, Tom Hughes. Soon, Emily found herself falling in love with Tom and schemed to break up his marriage. Emily used lies and manipulation to get Tom close to her. Finally she made Tom believe that his wife was going to have an abortion and Tom fell into bed with Emily. Emily then tried to make Tom believe she was pregnant, only to discover, she really was! During her pregnancy, Emily was kidnapped by David Stenbeck and held captive. She eventually escaped by killing a guard. When she returned to town, no one believed her story about being kidnapped and she was arrested for murder. Emily faked a psychotic episode to postpone her trial date and is currently spending time in a mental hospital. After being cleared of all charges and released from the hospital, Emily convinced Tom to get her a job at the Argus. Emily tried for months to get Tom to forget about Margo, and was determined to destroy their marriage. Emily truly believed that she would make a better wife for Tom and despite his obvious disinterest, she obsessed about getting him to love her. Her obsession ended though when Tom accused her of Alec Wallace's murder. Finally realizing that Tom never loved her, and she wasted over a year pining away for him, Emily washed her hands of him and sought to get on with her life.
After ditching her Argus job, Emily scrounged all over the place for enough money to buy The Intruder. In the end she was forced to make a deal with her own personal, jailed devil - David Stenbeck. When he realized she was trying to weasel out of her part of the bargain (writing op ed pieces denouncing his conviction and begging he be freed), David arranged for an attempted kidnapping of Emily's sister, Allison. Jake McKinnon and Isaac Jenkins helped her and her family through this danger, and Emily became fixated on Jake, even moving in with him briefly for safety reasons. Shortly after, David, in a posthumous video played during his funeral, left a final surprise: he'd put the paper up for sale, to be sold within 24 hours. Emily bristled at being under anyone's control, but had to accept the offer from buyer Craig Montgomery. Throughout these crises, young reporter Chris Hughes (originally paid by Tom to spy on her) comforted her, saw himself as her protector, and even kissed her. Emily then began posing as Vicky (Jake's dead wife), culminating in wearing a copy of a dress of Vicky's to the 2000 Halloween Roaring Twenties costume ball. Chris took her back to the office after Jake rejected her, and, after Chris declared his love for her, they made love. Their fling continued as they battled new managing editor Henry, and the Hughes' (Tom especially) outrage over their relationship. Emily even brought Penny Hughes home for a Christmas visit, to prove she had become a better person. A few weeks later, Emily cooled things off after Chris again vehemently declared his love for her, this time in front of Tom. She told him she didn't love him; wounded, he returned to Columbia to finish his medical education.
Several months later, Emily began working with now ex-cop Hal Munson in his efforts to prove whether or not Craig was responsible for the boathouse explosion which nearly killed Barbara. Emily's pliable ethics and brutal honesty were a surprisingly smooth fit with Hal's dogged loyalty to the law and gruff manner, and the two soon began mixing genuine warmth and flirtation in their barbs. Unfortunately, Emily's relationship with Hal wouldn't be easy. In addition to their own problems dealing with each other, she also had to deal with Tom's disapproval and when Em and Hal decided to move in together, Tom threatened to take Daniel away from her. Finally things came to a head when Daniel disappeared for a few hours. Convinced that Emily was a bad mother, Tom decided to limit her time with the boy. Emily was dead set against this however told him she'd take Daniel away first, a claim that seemed substantiated when someone tried to kidnap Daniel leaving behind one of Emily's gloves & two tickets to Mexico. Then on Christmas Eve, Emily suddenly disappeared from Oakdale, leaving being a note telling Hal goodbye.
Unbeknownst to everyone in Oakdale, Emily had been taken to a strange spa and had no memory of how she got there. Scared and confused, Emily learned that she wasn't alone--Carly Tenney had also been taken hostage! Not long after another Oakdale resident showed up: Rose D'Angelo. With Carly drugged, it was up to Rose and Emily to find a way out. Unfortunately the pair was separated and Rose was sent to the "next level". Though Emily somehow managed to escape from the spa, James Stenbeck recaptured her and made plans to murder her. Luckily Emily was rescued by Barbara Ryan (who was in on the kidnapping to begin with) and returned to Oakdale to reunite with Hal. The only thing marring her reunion with Hal was Emily's concern over Alison, who was now a manipulative teenager. Emily recognized a lot of herself in Alison and decided to help the girl. Unfortunately, Alison resented all of Emily's advice and told her to mind her own business. Not to be deterred however, Emily continued to try to help Alison and even considered telling her the truth of her parentage. Though she failed to convince Susan to tell the girl the truth, Alison found out on her own and rebelled against Emily and Susan. In addition to trying to build a relationship with Alison, Emily and Hal decided to solidify their own relationship by getting married.
Although the couple remained happy for a few years, soon Hal began spending more time at the police station and Emily started feeling neglected. Needing something useful to do and wanting to help Alison, who was now engaged to Chris, Emily decided to enter a newspaper contest called "The 10 Keys to the Kingdom." Her hope was to win and give the money to Alison, since she knew Ali desperately wanted to win herself to help Chris. With a plan, Emily found herself with an unlikely partner--Chris! Unfortunately, working together caused old feelings to resurface for both of them, putting Emily's marriage, and relationship with her sister, at risk. Although Emily continually insisted they had to keep their distance from each other in order to preserve her marriage and relationship with Alison, Chris's attraction to Emily seemed to override his devotion to Alison and he continually flirted with an unsettled Emily. While trying to resist Chris's advances, Emily was continually being pushed aside by a busy Hal, who had more time for work than her, and put down upon since Hal would make unilateral decisions without even discussing them with her (such as having his teenaged son, Will, move in with them after a lengthy stay in a mental hospital) Meanwhile, although he knew his feelings for Emily were overwhelming him, Chris decided to stick to his commitment to Ali. Things finally came to a head the day of Chris and Ali's wedding when, at the altar, Chris told Ali he couldn't marry her. While he was being honest, Chris then informed Hal, that he was in love with his wife! Horrified that Chris would just impulsively blurt that out, Emily confessed all to Hal and pled forgiveness. To her surprise, realized that he hadn't been fair to her and forgave her. Although she secured Hal's forgiveness, Ali refused to forgive her.
At about this time, Barbara was placed under house arrest and sent to live with Hal! Although Emily found the situation so unbearable she packed up to live with Susan, she soon relented in order to be with her husband. It was at this time, that Barbara hatched a diabolical plot to get Will out of Fairwinds and back with her. After procuring a mind-altering drug from the hospital (a drug that increased suggestibility), Barbara proceeded to drug Emily's tea. The drug caused Emily to feel ill and Barbara fed on her vulnerable state by pretending to be her friend. While Emily was in a drug induced state, Barbara then ordered her to sneak into Fairwinds and harass Rosanna by taking Cabot's baby items out of storage leaving them out for Rosanna to find. Although both Paul and Will initially suspected Barbara, she made it clear that she couldn't have done it since she was under house arrest and wearing an ankle monitor. Although she tried to deny it, Rosanna suspected that it was Will. Then one night, Will came downstairs to see someone in the house carrying Cabot's doll. He confronted the person, only to learn that it was Emily! As Emily ran out, Will was caught red-handed with the doll. Knowing no one would believe him, he kept quiet about Emily and decided to investigate the matter himself. When confronted, Emily could remember nothing, but an investigation by police unnerved evidence that Emily was behind the stalking and she was arrested. Though the evidence proved she was responsible, Emily could not explain her actions or even remember them. Through some prodding by Paul though, she figured out that she may have been drugged by "her good friend" Barbara. In the end, Paul and Emily found evidence of what Barbara had done and she was arrested. Fortunately for Barbara though, Emily was forced to recant her testimony against Barbara when after being drugged by Rosanna (under coercion from James), Emily "remembered" that Rosanna, not Barbara drugged her. Soon after, Rosanna skipped town after telling Paul that she never loved him. As a devastated Paul tried to deal with this revelation, Emily comforted him and the two became closer as she tried to get him to move on. Eventually, Rosanna came back in town, When Paul asked Emily not to press charges against her for fear of dredging up such painful memories. Emily agreed but was concerned that Rosanna’s return might damage the progress Paul had made in getting over her. The next day, a furious Paul changed his mind and urged Emily to press charges, but to her dismay Hal was adamantly against it. The pair argued and when Hal threw her attraction to Chris in her face, Emily moved out. Later, she went to Paul and after venting her frustrations to him, the pair made love. When she confessed to Hal what had happened, he bitterly told her that their marriage was over. At the same time, Jennifer and a young teen named Gwen Norbeck had both given birth to premature babies on the same day. Gwen's baby lived, but Jen's didn't. Soon after, Rosanna was left in an irreversible coma after being run off the road by Craig. In the meantime, Emily had moved in with Paul and soon would learn a horrible secret--the babie's were switched. That means it wasn't Jen's baby that died! When she confronted Paul, he convinced her to keep the secret--telling her that Jennifer was better off. After all if her baby was dead, Craig wouldn't reenter her life. Meanwhile, the apparent loss of her child drove Jenifer to use drugs to ease her pain. Finally her habit landed her in the hospital, and a guilty Paul wanted to reveal the truth. However, this time, it was Emily who convinced him to keep quiet since they’d already lied for months and concealed the evidence. Unfortunately, by the end of the year, the truth came out and both Emily and Paul were arrested for their involvemnt in the cover-up. Out on bail, Paul and Emily made plans to get married but at the last minute, Paul backed out, telling Emily that he couldn’tlet her ruin her life by marrying him. Already stressed beyond the limit due to the lies of the last few months, and her arrest, an enraged Emily impulsively shot Paul in the back!
Distraught at what she'd done, Emily quickly covered her tracks by calling herself with Paul's cell phone (thus giving her an alibi) and then tossing Paul's body over the cliff. Days later, she realized she lost an earring at the scene at went back to recover it. She succeeded and while lurking around, was certain she'd seen Paul in an abandoned cabin. In the meantime, the police, thinking that he was on the lam, were looking for Paul. Weeks later, an extremely on-edge Emily went back to the scene to un-hide Paul's car which she'd hidden since the police were asking about it. There at the scene, she ran into an unlikely person--Henry Coleman. Seeing the abandoned car and Emily's agitated state, Henry ended up guessing that she'd killed Paul. However, Henry had a secret himself--the money he'd buried which came from a convicted criminal. Emily got Henry to keep her secret in exchange for her keeping his. She also agreed to hide the money for him in exchange for him helping her. In the meantime, evidence turned up of Paul's "suicide". Paranoid that Paul was still alive, Emily was desperate to learn the entire truth of why he didn't turn her in. Suspecting that Meg Snyder was hiding Paul, Emily followed her to her place at the Lakeview (how could an unemployed woman afford a room there unless Paul was paying for it?) and did some snooping. There she snagged Meg's cell phone hit the last number called and heard Paul's voice! Suddenly, Emily got it in her head that Paul was in Oakdale because he still loved her. Although Henry tried to convince her to just forget about Paul, she couldn't let go of it. Then, she saw Paul and Meg kissing. Knowing how much Dusty Donavan hated Paul, Emily went to him with the news that he was alive. She also planted the idea in his head that Paul being dead may be the best thing. Not long after, Paul was discovered and placed in police custody. At the same time, Dusty ended up missing. Paul confessed to Dusty's murder, which neither Emily nor Meg believed. Emily convinced Hal to search Meg's room where he found bloody gloves. Meg was then arrested as a co-conspirator in Dusty's murder. By this time, Emily fully realized that Paul was in love with Meg and felt hurt because she wanted him to love her.. Later, Emily told Henry she would give him all of his money back - as soon as he killed someone for her. However, Henry refused to have anything to do with that. Emily then went to an abandoned farmhouse with the intention of killing the person everyone thought was already dead--Dusty! Apparently, Emily kidnapped Dusty. Emily informed Dusty that Paul confessed to his murder to protect Meg, because he’s in love with her. Emily explained that Paul deserved to rot in jail for what he did to her - even if there was no body. But if the police insisted on finding one, she'd give them one. Dusty tried to convince her that she was wrong--Meg wasn't in love with Paul; she was in love with him. He tried to convince her he could help her get win Paul back--by keeping him alive. Unsure, Emily suddenly got a call from Paul asking to see her. At the prison, Paul told Emily that Meg betrayed him. He said that Emily was right, warning him about Meg, and he apologized for not believing her. He declared that the biggest mistake of his life was not marrying her. Privately, Paul revealed to Emily that he didn’t kill Dusty, but he did deserve to go to jail for the way he treated her. Emily then stated that maybe there’s a way to get him out of this mess. But it all depended on Paul, and whether he could prove his love for her - by marrying her. Paul agreed. Immediately after the jailhouse wedding, Emily cleaned Dusty up and forced him to write a note to Jennifer. With this proof that Dusty was alive, the murder charges against Paul were dropped. However, Dusty was still a liability so Emily kept him captive. Meanwhile, despite the fact that Paul professed his love to her, and even proved it by seducing her, However, Emily was convinced that Meg was still a threat. Not long after, the walls started closing in when Jennifer mentioned that Dusty had called her. Worried that he'd escaped, Emily went to the farmhouse and was and followed by Jen! Emily threatened to kill Jen if Dusty didn't keep quiet. Immediately after Jen left, Emily marched Dusty into the woods with the intention of killing him. However, Dusty got a jump on her. He then grabbed her gun while Emily took off running. Dusty tried to follow but ended up coming face to face with Paul instead. On the run, Emily went to Susan and begged for her help. Susan pleaded with Emily to turn herself in so she could get help but Emily refused and ran off away. she wound up at the same cliffside where she shot Paul. Distraught, Emily seemed set to jump when Paul found her and pleaded with her to trust him. However, that went out the window when Meg and Dusty came as well and a frantic Emily ended up stepping off the cliff.
Luckily, Paul was able to revive her and Emily was sent to the hospital for her injuries. Then came a startling revelation--Emily was pregnant with Paul's baby. Meanwhile, Jennifer’s son, Johnny, became ill and was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer. While Emily was trying to decide whether to proceed with her pregnancy (since she didn’t want Paul to raise the baby with Meg), it was discovered that stem cells from Emily's fetus could save Johnny's life. However, it was risky; Emily's baby could die. Emily took the risk and not only did her baby survive the procedure, but Johnny recovered as well. Grateful, Jennifer wanted leniency in Emily's sentencing and continually asked Dusty to either not testify against Emily or ask the court to go easy on her. However, Dusty continually refused. Not long after, tragedy struck when Jennifer suddenly died of complications from viral pneumonia. Although Emily tried to remind Paul and Dusty that Jennifer wanted her to go free so their children would no each other, neither man would budge. Thinking all was lost, Emily plotted to escape from the psychiatric ward but was caught by her mother. At her trial, Emily was advised to plead guilty when salvation came from an unlikely source—Dusty! He’d had a change of heart and refused to testify against Emily. Though a desperate Paul tried to have charges brought up for Emily shooting him, it was much too late. Emily was free. Later, upon learning that Meg and Paul were engaged, Emily made plans to flee the country. Unfortunately for Emily, Meg got word from Henry and tried to stop her from leaving. However, Emily ignored all of Meg's pleas. While they argued at the Snyder farm, a freak snowstorm hit Oakdale. To keep a stubborn Emily from going out in the storm, Meg locked her in the barn. At that moment, an hysterical Emily went into labor. As Meg was trying to help Emily, the barn caught on fire. Luckily, the pair was rescued by Paul but, tragically, Emily's baby died during childbirth.
Later, Emily bought half he paper herself was looking to have WorldWide invest in the Intruder. Her point of contact was Dusty who was unable to deny that it would be a good investment and worked with Emily to get Lucinda’s backing. Insecure about her future, especially because of her past, Emily got a boost one night when a handsome man responded to her advances and spent the night with her. The next morning Emily woke up to find money near her bed—the man had paid for her services! Emily was even more shocked to discover that the man had given her $ 1,000. Seeing nothing to lose, Emily decided to take her chances soliciting other clients. Finally, she caught the eye of a high priced madam who suggested that Emily work for her. Meanwhile, Dusty could not help but notice that Emily seemed distracted. She was always missing appointments claiming she had somewhere else to be. In due time he find out about her secret life and though Emily claimed she was working undercover for a news story, Dusty had his doubts. When one of her johns beat her up, Emily broke down and told Dusty that she was roughed up but refused to press charges. When Dusty saw Emily with the high priced madam, his suspicions became greater and he arranged for a night with Emily. Cornered, Emily tried to convince him that she was working on a story but finally broke down and admitted that she was working as a prostitute. Emily tried to defend her behavior by stating that it made her feel in control and begged Dusty not to tell anyone. It took some time, but Dusty finally convinced Emily that what she was doing was self-destructive and she deserved better. Soon after giving up on prostitution, Emily discovered a porn video starring Alison! Wanting to locate her sister,, Emily asked Dusty for help and offered to pay him with the money she’d gotten from prostitution.. Though he refused at first, he relented and agreed to help, without taking any money. The pair figured out that Alison was in Las Vegas and brought Ali, who was now using meth, home. There, Emily urged her sister to get her life together. Reluctant, Ali took a job at Al’s but continued to try to score meth. It didn't take long for Dusty to realize that Alison was still using meth. Meanwhile, things had gotten so desperate for Alison that she slept with her drug dealer in order to get a hit. When Dusty and Emily found out how far she'd sunk, they decided Susan had to know and Alison had to go to rehab. However, Alison begged them to reconsider and Dusty agreed to stay with Ali while she detoxed. In the meantime, Susan was suspicious about the time Emily was spending with Dusty and to keep her from discovering Ali's problem, Dusty pulled her into a kiss. Soon they were pretending to have slept together in order to protect Ali's secret. At the same time, Alison got a visit from her old movie producer, Lance, who ordered her to return to Vegas or he would send Susan one of her old movies. When Lance told Alison about Emily's time as a prostitute, Ali blurted the truth to Susan and then left with Lance. Dusty followed her and brought back a shaken Ali who now was truly ready to turn her life around. At the same time, both Dusty and Emily realized that their feelings for each other had grown. Wanting to show her his feelings, Dusty surprised Emily by kissing her. Unfortunately, thanks to Lance, Aaron saw a videotape of Alison making love with Dusty. Emily stumbled across the tape as well; horrified at what she saw. Later, Emily told Alison that she forgave her but she couldn’t be near her for a while. She also condemned Dusty for not telling her what happened in Las Vegas. Wanting to get away from both of them, Emily left Oakdale for an extended vacation.
Months later, Emily returned to Oakdale with a new lover--Chris! Apparently the pair had reconnected while she was traveling. Though Emily wanted to keep their relationsip as it was--a harmless fling, Chris wanted them to become closer. From the moment she returned, Dusty tried to convince Emily that they belonged together but she refused to forgive him for what he’d done. At the same time, Chris was at loggerheads with his father over a research project conducted by Evan Walsh IV. While Chris felt the project was cutting-edge and would help people in the end, Bob felt it was way too risky. While Emily encouraged Chris and even helped by printing a story condemning Bob for his closed minded reaction to the project, Dusty sided with Bob and warned that if the project was approved, he would pull the Jennifer Munson Foundation out of Memorial. Not long after, Bob was left comatose following a stroke and despite Dusty’s objections, Chris was sworn in as interim Chief of Staff. Defying his father’s wishes, Chris approved Walsh’s project. Soon, Dusty started accusing Chris of causing his father’s stroke which Emily felt was ridiculous. In the meantime, Dusty was enjoying his Friends with Benefits relationship with Lily while at the same time trying to woo Emily away from Chris. Things came to head on New Year’s Eve. Before planning to meet Lily at Metro’s, Dusty stopped at Memorial lo check on Bob’s condition. After being thrown out by Chris, Dusty was confronted in his car by Emily who told him to leave Chris alone. Again, Dusty tried to warn her that her boyfriend was dangerous and a liar. He then pulled her into a kiss that turned passionate. Soon after, Dusty confessed what happened to Lily who later angrily confronted Emily—calling her a whore. Emily angrily went to Dusty and blasted him for confiding Lily that they slept together on New Year’s Eve. Emily was convinced that Lily would tell Chris but Dusty insisted that Lily was not the vindictive type. Finally, came the night of the unveiling of the Walsh research project. Before heading off to the hospital for the contract signing, Chris received an anonymous note that left him upset. Apparently the letter informed him of Emily’s former profession as a call girl. Chris angrily declared that whoever was responsible would be sued for slander and Emily was forced to admit that it was the truth. Visibly disgusted, Chris wrote her out of his life. Believing the note came from Dusty, Emily confronted him at Memorial and accused him of telling Chris her secret. Though Dusty denied it, Emily didn’t believe him angrily warned him that he would pay. Hours later, Emily was horrified to find Dusty dead. Horrified, Emily refused to believe it at first and just cried, pleading with him to get up. The next day, Emily realized that Dusty was indeed gone, the victim of a fatal drug injection, but refused to go to his funeral because of his betrayal. However, she had a change of heart and after the funeral had another run in with Lily. Later, Lily would inform Emily that Dusty wasn’t the one who sent Chris the note—she did. This news left Emily sick because of the way she spoke to him before he died. Soon after, Tom informed her that Dusty left the Intruder to her in his will.
Criminal record
- Witnessed James Stenbeck killing Captain Nigel Cromwell and kept silent about it. (Fall 1985)
- Accidentally killed coin collector Lawrence Gorey with her nail file when she was defending herself. (October 1986; she went to prison until March 1987 over this.)
- Kidnapped jewel thief Jarvis. (October 1986)
- Stole Barbara Ryan's gun that she kept in her office. [November 17, 1987]
- Suspect in the supposed murder of James Stenbeck [Late 1987]
- Lied about the paternity of her unborn baby [Late 1987]
- Tried to take over Tonio Reyes's company, Montgomery & Associates, by trying to get him in trouble with the Federal Exchange Commission and the F.B.I. (Summer - Fall 1988)
- Hired a private investigator to dig into Ellie Snyder's past. (December 1988)
- Snooped around in her mother's office, at Memorial, and took a look at Margo Hughes's medical file. (January 1989)
- Blackmailed Barbara Ryan for her help to get Paul to hire her for a job working at Montgomery & Associates for her silence about Adam's true parentage. (February 1989)
- Perjury [November 1989]
- Stole Diego Santana's body from the morgue [March 3, 1997]
- Threatened Lucinda Walsh with a gun [March 26, 1997]
- Moved Kirk Anderson's gun from the Santana evidence box, at the Oakdale P.D. evidence room, into a different box that no one could find. [August 12, 1997]
- Was served a summons from Lucinda Walsh suing her to get The City Times back (She and David Stenbeck had colluded to steal it from Lucinda.) [December 19, 1997]
- Threw an alcoholic drink in a guy's face at Yo's. [March 20, 1998]
- Falsely accused David Stenbeck of roughing her up. [April 24, 1998]
- Threatened Lucinda to publish photos of her kissing James [June 5, 1998]
- Set Tom Hughes's watch back a couple of hours, making Tom miss a dinner date with his wife, Margo. [June 15, 1998]
- Goaded Tom into getting angry about Margo and Eddie Silva. [June 18, 1998]
- Lied to Tom that Eddie made a pass at her. [June 18, 1998]
- Lied that Eddie was rude to her, which got his parole revoked and also got Eddie fired from being a caterer at the AIDS ball. [June 18, 1998]
- Lied to Tom that Eddie threatened her [June 24, 1998]
- Lied again about Eddie and had him fired from Java. [June 25, 1998]
- Falsely accused Eddie Silva of mugging her [June 25, 1998]
- Sent WOAK producer, Brent, to secretly videotape Margo at home kissing Eddie Silva. [August 21, 1998]
- Lied to Tom that Margo and Eddie were leaving town together. [August 31, 1998]
- Listened into a private phone conversation between her mother, Susan, and Margo Hughes. [September 18, 1998]
- Fraud: changed pamphlets for how to deal with a mid-life pregnancy, that Susan sent Margo, to ones about abortion. [September 18, 1998]
- Fraud: twice pretended to be Margo in a phone call to an abortion clinic. [September 18, 1998]
- Spied on Tom and Margo. [September 18 & September 23, 1998]
- Fraud: twice pretended to be Tom's secretary in a phone call to a florist. [October 9, 1998]
- Forged Tom's signature on legal papers. [October 28, 1998]
- Fraud: called the airport pretending to be Margo [October 28, 1998]
- Vandalism: smashed a jack-o-lantern on Tom and Margo's front porch. [October 31, 1998]
- Falsely claimed she was attacked by David Stenbeck [October 31, 1998]
- Falsified her first pregnancy test [1999]
- Accomplice in the kidnapping of Barbara Ryan [April 2003]
- Under hypnosis, broke into Fairwinds several times, and took out items belonging to Rosanna Cabot's "late" son, Cabot [December 2004]
- Kept quiet about the fact that Jennifer Munson's baby was alive [Fall 2005]
- Shot Paul Ryan in the back [January 3, 2006]
- Kept quiet about the fact that Henry Coleman had kept money belonging to fugitve BJ Green. [mid January 2006 to Present]
- With Henry Coleman, broke into Meg Snyder's room at the Lakeview [January 31, 2006]
- Kidnapped Dusty Donovan and held him captive. [late February 2006 to April 24, 2006]
- Tried to frame Meg for Dusty's "murder" [March 2006]
- Assaulted Paul Ryan [April 21, 2006]
- Planned to murder Dusty [April 24, 2006]
- Escaped from Memorial's psychiatrict ward (stopped by her mother) [July 13, 2006]
- Drugged Meg Snyder [November 10, 2006]
- Broke into Dusty's car [November 22, 2006]
- Secretly swithced the bullets in Dusty's car with blanks [November 2006]
- Broke into Fairwinds to plant evidence against Craig [December 28, 2006]
- Prostituting herself [February, March, 2007]
- A suspect in the murder of Dusty Donovan, [January, 2008]
- Drugged Chris Hughes [March 10, 2008]