Gloria Abbott Bardwell
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| Gloria Bardwell | |||||||||||||
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| The Young and the Restless character | |||||||||||||
| File:JudithChapman.jpg Judith Chapman as Gloria Bardwell (2007) | |||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Joan Van Ark (2004 - 2005) Judith Chapman (2005 - present) | ||||||||||||
| First appearance | April 6, 2004 | ||||||||||||
| Created by | John F. Smith Kay Alden | ||||||||||||
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Gloria Bardwell (née Simmons; formerly Fisher and Abbott) is a fictional character, a resident of Genoa City on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. The role was originated by Joan Van Ark who played the role from April 6, 2004[1] to January 7, 2005,[2] and is currently portrayed by Judith Chapman, who assumed the role on January 14, 2005.[2]
Storylines
Gloria Fisher comes to town after her younger son, Kevin Fisher, goes to her for help. She becomes romantically involved with John Abbott. They marry. She hides the identities of her sons Kevin and Michael Baldwin because John does not like them, particularly Kevin who is an internet predator who attempted to murder John's granddaughter Colleen Carlton among other crimes. John eventually finds out and is angry. After Kevin saves John's life he comes to accept his wife's family.
Tom Fisher, Gloria's husband and Kevin's father, comes to town and begins blackmailing Gloria by threatening to reveal to John that she and Tom are still married. She gives into the blackmail, which includes giving him money and occasionally helping him romantically pursue John's daughter Ashley Abbott. John finds out about this and confronts Tom with a gun. He accidentally shoots and kills him. After a bout of memory loss of the event, John confesses to the crime and goes to prison. Before going in, he leaves Gloria his Jabot proxy.
John's oldest children, Ashley and Jack, dislike Gloria because of manipulations and they blame her for their father's imprisonment. To get back at them, Gloria set up a scheme to taint a Jabot product Ashley created, the face cream GloAgain, and pretend to catch the faulty product and in so doing, save Jabot. Jack sends samples of the product out before Gloria can pretend to save the day. The samples hurt many people, including John's granddaughter Abby, and are initially thought to result in the death of a woman named Emma Gibson (whom it is much later determined actually had another medical condition that caused her death). Emma's husband sues Jabot and Gloria convinces him to stipulate in the settlement that Jack can not have anything to do with the company again.
While in prison, John suffers a massive stroke that takes his life. It is revealed that Jack tricked John into writing a will that left Gloria with nothing. Katherine Chancellor and Jill Abbott give Gloria a job at Jabot. She romantically pursues district attorney William Bardwell who has recently inherited a fortune due to his uncle's death. Gloria eventually marries William, who then discovers the truth about Gloria and the face cream. He then suffers a stroke, and is taken to hospital. After holding him against his will while she attempts to change his mind about reporting her activities surrounding the face cream, she decides to turn herself in for contaminating the GloAgain face cream so that he will stop stressing himself and his condition will improve. Seeing that she truly loves him, William Bardwell stops Gloria from turning herself in, but eventually succumbs to his stroke and dies anyway. After William dies he inherits his uncle's money, fifty million dollars, and the money goes to Gloria.
William's identical twin Jeffrey arrives in Genoa City and schemes to get William's money. Jeffrey presents Gloria with a box of mementos that William sent him before he died. The box contains a jar of the contaminated face cream. Gloria then becomes convinced that Jeffrey knows of her crime. Gloria plays a game of cat-and-mouse with Jeffrey. Their manipulations of each other lead to two marriages and to the two of them falling in love.
The truth about John's will comes out and Gloria is awarded half of Abbott Manor. Since Gloria and Jeffrey move in and Jack and Sharon refuse to move out, they are time-sharing by area. Both couples are doing everything they can to make the other leave. Gloria redecorates in outlandish style, and Sharon & Jack with Jeff's help, hire an actor, Alistair Wallingford, to play John's ghost to scare Gloria into selling her share of the mansion and leaving. Gloria figures it out and threatens to file a lawsuit, but Jack, influenced by his conscience in the form of his dead father John, gives up and gives her the house. He and Sharon move out. Gloria, influenced by Jana and her beliefs in karma, decides to turn her life around and gives the mansion back to Jack. Jeffery and Gloria to live in the Abbott pool house.
Jeffrey and Gloria join forces with John's children to regain control of Jabot. With Kevin's help, Gloria manipulates Katherine into leaving her some Jabot shares in her will. Meanwhile, she and Jeffrey set up a dummy corporation to buy Jabot shares. After Kay dies and Gloria gains control of the shares she left her, she, Jeffrey, and the Abbott children take over Jabot.
Michael's father River Baldwin comes back into their lives. Jeff is jealous of him. River needs Gloria to testify in his favor in order to so he will not got to prison. Jeffrey blackmails her into not doing it. He says he will expose her for tainting the GloAgain cream. After struggling with her conscience, Gloria does testify for River and is arrested tainting the cream.
Gloria is released from prison, when it is determined that her face cream tampering did not result in any deaths. She attempts to reconcile with Jeffrey, but ends their relationship when she sees him with Jill.