ThoughtsOn: Amelia Heinle Dishes On ‘Y&R’s’ Emotional Last Year, Billy Miller, Tristan Rogers and More!

“The Young and the Restless’” Amelia Heinle (Victoria Newman) is celebrating her first ever Emmy nomination as well as an exciting storyline involving Sean Carrigan’s Stitch, but that didn’t prevent her from opening up about a slew of other topics when reporters chatted with the actress shortly after she received the news that she’d officially be in this year’s Emmy race. The actress had no qualms about discussing the emotional year “Y&R” has experienced, what it was like working with Billy Miller (ex-Billy Abbott), her obsession with Tristan Rogers (Colin Atkinson) and more.

ON BILLY MILLER’S EMOTIONAL PERFORMANCES

“I’m not one of these overly sappy people, but [the day they filmed the scenes of Billy imagining an older version of Delia] was special, and this girl they brought in to play the older Delia, she just kind of gelled with all of us, and Billy was just freaking amazing. I know there weren’t a lot of teary scenes or anything like that, but the heart was in that, and the heart was in all of this, this whole storyline; I definitely felt like the heart was in all of it. And I think that’s why it worked so well, because you know that day, I sat there, and there’s a song that they played for when he had to dance with his daughter, and later they played a different song, because the song they played wasn’t approved, but it was John Mayer “Fathers Be Good to Your Daughters,” and they played it a different song when it aired, but that day, they played [Mayer’s song] to the floor, and that girl was so good… and Billy was amazing. Every time I hear that song, I think of that scene that they danced in the end, and it was very special. It was the older one, after she was married. I just thought it was done well, and we all had such a great time doing it. We all needed therapy afterwards, but it was good.”