MISHAEL MORGAN ON Y&R RETURN

"I was flattered and honored to come back for Y&R's 50th anniversary," enthuses Mishael Morgan, whose Amanda is not only showing up as the legal counsel for Chancellor Winters, but will attend the splashy gala celebrating Genoa City's bicentennial. "It was pretty much an immediate yes for me but I had my agent make sure I didn't have anything else in the pipeline.

I was adamant about going back and being there for this moment, so I made it pretty clear that unless Steven Spielberg called, I'm going to Genoa City." Morgan was looking forward to picking up where Amanda left off: walking in on boyfriend Devon having sex with Abby. "I was really excited to come back and play that out because Amanda left very abruptly," the actress points out. "She showed up, was in shock by what she was seeing and then she just disappeared for a few months." Before hightailing it out of town, Amanda lit into Devon for his infidelity, and Morgan says she appreciated the moment. "We're living in a time where women are really walking into their power even when we're blindsided by something so horrible," she explains. "We're not broken birds. We can stand up and fight for ourselves and demand our worth.