It involved a middle-aged Caucasian woman by the name of Dorothy Mabel Collins who was severely injured when-in order to escape an unidentified pursuer - she leapt from the third-floor balcony of her apartment.īarely breathing, she was rushed by ambulance to the local emergency room. Of particular interest was a medical report of an event that took place in 1968 in Portland, Maine, that had gone unreported by the press. Overwhelmed by primal rip currents that I had supposedly outdanced, outrun, outswum, and outloved, I reached out to all that was tangible, real, and known about my early life - facts, documents, records, chronologies, even maps. Into a cave of introspection I crept while a tidal wave of memories and feelings crashed upon me all at once. The turning of the wheels that led to my true emancipation began some time in mid-2002 when I did the unthinkable, something that (at least where I come from and where I live, work, and drive in L.A.'s fast lane) has always been taboo: I became still. ![]() Though I was legally and financially emancipated at the requisite age of eighteen and had always been fiercely independent, it wasn't until I was forty-three years old and a working mother of two that I finally set myself free. ![]() To satisfy the curiousity of her soap opera fans, Rowell also discusses her departure from The Young and The Restless.įor anyone who has spent any portion of their childhood as a ward of the state, the notion of emancipation has multiple meanings. The actress talks to NPR about the women who cared for her when her birth mother could not, and her own rise to Hollywood fame. This childhood reality is the driving force behind her nearly 20 years of advocacy work on behalf of children in foster care. In her new book, The Women Who Raised Me, Rowell talks about spending an entire childhood as a Ward of the State, never formally adopted into a family. But, arguably, for most she will always be remembered for her popular role as Drucilla Barber-Winters, the runaway kid-turned-fashion model on the long-running daytime drama The Young and The Restless. Amanda Bentley on the 1990s primetime series Diagnosis: Murder. ![]() Victoria Rowell spent her early life going from home to home in the foster care system. Daytime television star Victoria Rowell writes about her life as a foster child in her new book.
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