‘Young and the Restless’ star Peter Bergman opens up about Billy Miller’s ‘heartbreaking’ death
nypost.comPeter Bergman has grown to have a second set of kin.“Those people get a very special place in my heart,” Bergman, who is up for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the 24th time at the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday — which will broadcast on CBS and stream on Paramount+ live at 9 p.m.
ET.So the three-time Daytime Emmy winner took it hard, right along with the rest of the “Y&R” cast, when Billy Miller — who played Jack Abbott’s younger half-brother, Billy Abbott, from 2008 to 2014, died by suicide at 43 in September after years of battling bipolar depression.“It is absolutely heartbreaking,” Bergman, 70, told The Post. “It is literally like losing a member of your family.In fact, the “Y&R” cast planned to remember Miller at their holiday party on Thursday, the day before the Daytime Emmys, in Los Angeles.“We still care about it.
We’re still talking about it.”Miller was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and also starred on “General Hospital” as Jason Morgan and Drew Cain from 2014 to 2019.
After his 592-episode run on the ABC daytime soap opera, Miller appeared on “Suits,” “Truth Be Told” and “NCIS.”After playing Dr.
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