Put some respect on Diane Jenkins Abbott's name. The Young and the Restless star Susan Walters earned her first Daytime Emmy on Oct. 17, 2025, winning Outstanding Supporting Actress for her sharp, sly, and surprisingly vulnerable work in Genoa City. Walters’ nuanced performance has kept viewers guessing—then gasping—as Diane navigates love, power plays, and past sins with equal finesse. The win punctuated a big night for daytime drama and gave Y&R fans a celebratory mic-drop moment. Consider this a well-deserved coronation for one of soap’s most compelling comeback arcs.
Susan Walters started her acting career on the soap opera Loving in 1983, when she was 19 years old. She played Lorna Forbes until leaving the show in 1986 and embarking on a career that has spanned over 40 years and included over 80 roles in TV and film. Her Daytime Emmy win on Friday night for playing Diane Jenkins Abbott on The Young & the Restless was not only her first Emmy win, but also her first Emmy nomination.
Walters seemed more surprised than anyone when her name was announced as the winner of the Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Daytime Drama Series: Actress Emmy, and she laughed as she shared that co-star Peter Bergman had told her to make sure to have something to say, and she didn't listen to him. She thanked him, and onscreen son Michael Mealor, calling them the "most generous screen partners" she had ever worked with.
She said she felt "honored" to be amongst her fellow nominees and thanked Y&R Executive Producer and Headwriter, Josh Griffith, saying, "When you brought Diane back to life, you gave me life."
Walters also thanked her husband, Linden Ashby, and their daughters, Grace and Savannah. "I am so glad I won so I can thank my husband of 40 years, who has helped me get to work and do this work for the last 3 and a half years, " she said, "I give this to you."
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The other nominees for Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Daytime Drama Series: Actress were Linsey Godfrey as Sarah Horton (Days of our Lives Peacock), Courtney Hope as Sally Spectra (The Young and the Restless CBS), Kate Mansi as Kristina Corinthos Davis (General Hospital ABC), and Emily O'Brien as Theresa Donovan (Days of our Lives Peacock).
The 52nd annual Daytime Emmys took place in Pasadena, CA, on Friday, October 17, 2025, and were streamed live on watch.theemmys.tv and on the Emmys app.
"The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), founded in 1955, is dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of television. Our mission is to promote creative leadership and recognize artistic, educational, and technical achievements within the television industry. NATAS is proud to honor excellence in American daytime television programming through the prestigious Daytime Emmy Awards."
"The Young and the Restless revolves around rivalries, romances, hopes, and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin, and Winters families. When it premiered in 1973, it revolutionized the daytime drama and over 50 seasons later continues to set the standard with strong characters, socially conscious storylines, romance, and sensuality."
The Young & the Restless airs weekdays on CBS, and you can catch up anytime on Paramount+.
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