Meg Snyder
| Meg Snyder | |||||||||||||
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| As the World Turns character | |||||||||||||
| File:Marie.Meg.jpg Marie Wilson (Meg Snyder Ryan) | |||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Jennifer Ashe (1986-1989, 1994) Marie Wilson (2005-present) | ||||||||||||
| First appearance | January 1986 | ||||||||||||
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Margaret "Meg" Donovan (née Snyder, previously Reyes, Montgomery, and Ryan) is a resident of Oakdale on the American TV soap opera, As the World Turns.
Character history
Meg Snyder is the daughter of Emma and Harvey Snyder. She is the sister of Seth Snyder, Iva Snyder Benedict, Caleb Snyder, Elinor "Ellie" Snyder and Holden Snyder. She was involved with Dusty Donovan in the early years and even faked a pregnancy to trap him. Meg married Tonio Reyes, but she had an affair with Josh Snyder and became pregnant, losing the baby and had to have a hysterectomy. She later married Josh, and they left town. She returned to Oakdale in 2005 and began working as a nurse at Memorial. It was revealed that she and Josh got divorced. She picked up her relationship with Dusty, until it was clear to her that he was really in love with Jennifer Munson. She planned to leave Oakdale, but instead found Paul Ryan in the woods, badly injured from a gunshot wound. Since he was a fugitive, she took him to an abandoned cabin and took care of him until he was healed. The two fell in love and even became engaged. Craig Montgomery was released from jail for his role in switching Jennifer and Gwen's babies, and set his eyes set on Meg. She eventually left Paul at the altar back in October of 2006 and slept with Craig, after losing her job as a nurse in the aftermath of causing a patient's death by her negligence, after Craig stopped her from taking pills after she downed a bottle of alcohol. She married Craig to get his company, which he stole from Lucinda, so she could give it back to her. Paul and Meg planned to leave Oakdale as soon as Lucinda had the company, but Craig found out and took Meg on a honeymoon. Craig drugged Meg and let Paul came to a cliff. Paul falls from a cliff during a fight with Craig. They thought Paul was dead. She mourned and moved on with Craig, but was later shocked to see Paul alive in Oakdale, with his ex-wife who was in a coma for 2 years Rosanna Cabot. She was hurt to hear that the two were engaged, but Paul couldn't resist Meg and the two slept together after remembering their times together. She became pregnant with Paul's son, but believed the baby to be Craig's son, as Rosanna supposedly altered the paternity test. Craig, however, discovered the truth and bought a miscarriage drug to kill Meg's baby. He slipped it into her drink, but at the last second knocked it out of her hand. The truth supposedly was later put together by Paul and Meg, leading Paul to confront Rosanna (whom he'd married). She admitted her part in the conflict as well as Craig's part. Angry because Craig tried to kill his son, Paul went after Craig. While Paul and Craig were fighting, Meg tried to step in to break it up. Paul ended up hitting her, causing her to fall and lose her unborn child. Later, Holden lashed out at Paul and Craig as Meg supposedly suffered mentally over the miscarriage, in which a short time later, she was both physically and mentally fine while carrying her nephew, Ethan, into the farmhouse shortly after being released from the hospital. Meg later divorced Craig as Rosanna fell back into her comatose state. In the divorce decree she returned Worldwide Industries (formerly Montgomery Enterprises) back over to Lucinda Walsh.
On May 26, 2008, Meg was re-instated as a nurse at Memorial after getting a good word put in with the board by Barbara Ryan.
In August 2008, Meg finally married Paul, nonetheless in a hospital bed, after being admitted when she had psychotic episodes, caused by a plague. This marriage gave Meg the official name Meg Ryan. However, to make sure there wouldn't be any confusion with the actress Meg Ryan, the show changed the name to Meg Snyder Ryan, though she would be addressed as Mrs. Ryan. Meg learned that she and her husband are currently expecting another child, making this their second child by pregnancy, having lost their first child in a miscarriage while she was married to Craig.
The daughter that Meg is expecting with husband Paul Ryan will be named Eliza. After finding out that Paul hired a Jennifer look alike to seduce and distract Dusty, Meg asks for a divorce. A ghost James convinces Paul to fake an overdose to get her back. Meg having found a suicide note went to the cabin they shared when she nursed him back to health and found Paul having overdosed in the chair. She starts compressions and then tries to drag him to the door but the stress sends her into labor. She calls Dusty and he takes her to the hospital where she delivers healthy baby Eliza. Afterwhich, Paul agree's to a divorce and signs the papers officially ending them on January 19th. However, around that time, Dusty learns that Craig has plans to marry Carly Snyder in an attempt to take Johnny away from him by proving he had more of a stable family. So to retaliate, Dusty proposed to Meg and she accepted in order to help him get custody of Johnny. Dusty and Meg married soon after in a simple ceremony.