Dear Soaps, I haven't gotten to...

Aug 16, 2000 04:00 AM ET
by Soaps

Dear Soaps,
I haven't gotten to watch the soaps for a long time. Whatever happened to Hope, one of Victor Newman's wives on The Young and the Restless. Did he divorce her? Did she die? What happened? — Melissa

Dear Melissa,
Hope decided that Victor didn't have room for her in his life, so she took their young son, Victor, Jr., and returned to her farm in Kansas. Ashley's pal, Kurt Costner, went with them. At the time, the writers presumably moved Hope off the canvas so they could tell the story in which Victor would marry Diane and then divorce her so he could wed a dying Nikki. There just wasn't room for Hope at the time. It's likely, however, that Hope and Victor Jr. will return down the line. (Michael J. Maloney)