3 Shocking Details From ‘Young and The Restless’ Melody Thomas Scott’s New Book

CBS The Young and The Restless spoilers and updates reveal Melody Thomas Scott’s new book, Always Young and Restless: My Life On and Off America’s #1 Daytime Drama is one auto-biography that you will certainly want to pick up. Here are three shocking details from the book.

#1 She Was Abused At The Hands Of Her Grandmother

The soap star wrote in her book that when she was just a toddler, she found a place at the Hollywood Children’s Theater. Young actors were required to have private weekly classes in the apartment of a man by the name of Cosmo Morgan, who ran the theater.

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Whenever she was forced to sit on his lap, her grandmother wouldn’t do anything about it, even though Melody desperately cried out for her help during that time. “I remember when I first started to happen I was 4 years old and I hardly knew that this was wrong and she was sitting probably five feet away and I looked at her, my eyes, I’m sure were wild with the questions, ‘Do you see this? Are you going to stop this?’ And she never did,” Melody said, according to Page Six.

#2 She Stabbed Clint Eastwood

When she was just 13-years-old Scott said that she gained 20 pounds in just two weeks to play a character by the name of Abigail in the 1971 Don Siegal-directed film, The Beguiled. The actress says that she loved being on the set of the movie, as that was the only time she wasn’t under her stage grandmother’s obsessive watch. However, the film also saw her infamously act out and she soon became known as the girl who stabbed Clint Eastwood with a needle in the film.

“I cannot explain what went through my mind, but I couldn’t resist it,” Scott says of needling the superstar. “He certainly didn’t deserve it because he was so sweet to us kids. Every morning, he’d come out of his [trailer] and give us all a kiss on the cheek. I mean Clint Eastwood… Oh my god. We just adored him. I sat there for a few minutes thinking: Oh, no, I can’t do that. I can’t do that. I can’t do that. Oh, yes, I can! And I did it.”

#3 She Almost Became Marcia Brady

Melody Thomas Scott also says in her book that she almost became Marcia Brady on The Brady Bunch. “I remember being in [show creator] Sherwood Schwartz’s office,” she recalls, “and I think every kid in town was out at that interview, as you can imagine. They had pencil marks on the wall because Schwartz wanted the [six Brady] kids to go up in a diagonal line, according to height. I don’t remember if I was too tall or too short, but my height was my downfall there” in losing the role.

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