Daytime Emmy Winner Peter Bergman joined The Young and the Restless back in 1989. On this week’s upcoming episode of the SOAPY podcast, the veteran actor reflects on how much his first home, All My Children still means to him.
Bergman first rose to fame as Dr. Cliff Warner on All My Children before joining The Young and the Restless, where he has now portrayed Jack Abbott for more than three decades, and earning multiple Daytime Emmy Awards along the way.
Bergman opened up on the SOAPY podcast which Parade was provided an exclusive preview of, as seen below.
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“I won my first Emmy on that show after I had been there for about a year and a half,” Bergman said, referring to his 1991 Daytime Emmy win for Outstanding Lead Actor for his portrayal of Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless. He was previously nominated in 1983 for his work on All My Children and again in 1990 for The Young and the Restless.
Recalling the moment of his win, Bergman said, “It was a powerful surprise. The All My Children people in the audience were going completely crazy. The Young and the Restless, it was deafening. It was the craziest experience it really was.”
Bergman went on to describe retuning the following year after another Emmy win in 1992. “The following year I won again, and we met our friends we were meeting at Sarah’s Beth’s kitchen and we had to walk from our hotel, past All My Children, and they were tearing the building down,” he recalled.
The moment left him conflicted. “I’ve got two Emmy’s on this show, this should be home, you grab it, make it your own,” he said, referring to his growing success on The Young and the Restless.
Still, the loss hit hard. “I stood there and looked at this pile of bricks and wept like a baby,” Bergman shared. “It was just a horrible, horrible feeling and it was if, the world was saying without writing on the wall. “Peter, it’s two and a half years now. It’s over. Move on. Get on with your life.”
Later that day, Bergman met up with friends and former All My Children colleague James Mitchell. “I had breakfast with our friends, and I then go to have lunch with James Mitchell, and so I walked over there and hung with James and Albert for awhile,” he said. When he returned to his hotel room his wife, Mariellen Bergman, had left a keepsake from the demolished studio, a brick. “It’s in my dressing room today,” he revealed. “It was so powerful to me, that the loss of that job, it was just an amazing experience that clearly I think I am over it, but it brings up emotions.”
Reflecting on his years at All My Children, Bergman summed up the experience simply: “It was amazing.” The ABC soap, which aired from 1970 to 2011, launched the daytime career and helped shape the actor who would go on to become one of The Young and the Restless’ most decorated stars.
The Young and the Restless airs weekdays on CBS and streams weeknights on Paramount+.
New episodes of the SOAPY podcast air Tuesdays on all major podcasting platforms.
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