[In 1999, recalling her role in "The Young and the Restless" that she first played in 1973] I played Nurse Barbara. Ha Nurse Barbara! And Barbara was the girlfriend of the lead character who had a child with him, and the child died, and he left town. That was the beginning of the show, and I was his backstory. I was on the show off-and-on for three years, more off than on.