Melody The Young and the Restless’ rich and stunning Nikki Newman is Thomas Scott’s most well-known role. Yet, Scott’s life wasn’t always a fairy tale. She was traumatized as a child and has been working to recover.
Scott was born on April 18, 1956, in Los Angeles. According to her 2020 autobiography, Always Young and Restless: My Life On and Off America’s #1 Daytime Drama, she was born to a teenage mother who was still enrolled in high school. As a child, the actress believes she felt “disconnected” from her mother. She wasn’t interested in me, Scott wrote. She didn’t give a damn about me.
Her distant grandparents, who were not particularly affectionate, were where Scott spent much of her time. She claimed that just like her mother, her grandmother also felt “disconnected” from Scott and “dissatisfied with my existence.”
However, Scott claimed that because of her grandmother’s volatile personality and propensity for “fits of frantic wrath,” she was “terrified” of her. But Scott’s grandfather stayed away from her and went up to the attic. Young performer Scott was encouraged to do it by her Hollywood-aspired grandmother.
Her grandmother watched multiple men in the business assault her sexually while doing nothing. Scott explained, “You see, anything I had to do to succeed in business was fair game since my grandma was so determined for me (and her) to succeed.
It wasn’t even required that it be a director or producer. Whether you were a grip or a boom operator made no difference. She had the misguided notion that any man in show industry could help us.
Because of her challenging upbringing, Scott said that she suffered from agoraphobia, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. According to reports, the actor is healing “piece by piece” as a result of regular meditation and therapy sessions.
The actress believes that having children played a significant role in her recovery. Her 37-year-old husband and their three daughters. It allowed Scott to raise a child in a manner distinct from how he or she was raised. I really needed it, she said. She said, “I had the opportunity to correct so many things that went wrong when I was a child. I purposefully chose the alternative to what had been selected for me. I am ecstatic and happy to see their girls mature into beautiful mothers.
Scott emphasized that she has not forgiven her late grandma in particular for the way that she made the decision to disregard the sexual abuse that was happening. Not at all ready for that. She told Page Six, “I don’t know if I ever will because when they become aware, they become complicit, and in my eyes, that is evil.” You wouldn’t permit it to occur to a small child, wouldn’t you?
Scott continues to believe that her grandmother was dealing with her mental health issues. She reasoned that if her grandmother had obtained a diagnosis, it might have revealed a personality flaw or a specific sort of mood problem that contributed to her behavior.