Jaime Lyn Bauer

She played a pivotal character named Lauralee Brooks (nicknamed Lorie) on "Young and the Restless" from 1973 to 1982. The show's creator William J. Bell named her character after his own daughter Lauralee Bell. In 1982, Jaime was "exhausted," since she had just had given birth to her second child and couldn't handle the six-day-a-week work schedule. First, she asked Bell to reduce her workload, but when he couldn't, she left explaining to him that she would have a emotional breakdown if she didn't leave. He allowed her to leave, without laying a guilt trip. After she left, not only did he not recast the role of Lorie, but he wrote out the entire Brooks family and created the Abbott and Williams' families. Jaime was grateful that he hadn't told her his plans of firing the actors playing the Brooks family if she left. If he had told her, she would've stayed just so that the actors, to whom she was close to, wouldn't lose their jobs, but she also would've been miserable. She came back briefly to "Young and the Restless" in 1984 and in 2002. Bell passed away in 2005 and his family became producers of the show. Jaime wanted to come back in 2013 for the show's 40th year anniversary but was disappointed when the Bell family didn't ask her.

[In 2013, when asked about her former co-star Brenda Dickson controversial statements about "Young and the Restless" creator William J. Bell in her book] I have no idea what she said. Let's face it. We were all very young. When you are young, you are kind of messed up. You got all your family issues from childhood, and you haven't processed them all yet, and yet you have to act like an adult, and you have to be in the real world. So we had a lot of drama going on. Brenda was young, with the rest of us. I didn't ever hang out with her or anything, so I didn't know what any of her personal drama was. But Bill could be tough. You weren't sure sometimes if you could trust him. At least, that was always in my mind. I was friendly and we were close up to a degree, but it was always that professionalism that always was maintained. I would say that I wasn't always sure that I could trust what he was saying. But at the same time, in the end, what I saw was he made a great sacrifice, and he put me and my home and personal well-being before the show, and that was a game-changer altogether.