Deal-Breaker: The Bombshell Young & Restless Twist That Will Stop the ‘Shick’ Reunion Cold
The mess Cane Ashby is making in Genoa City just keeps getting bigger… and he hasn’t even attacked a business yet! But does he actually have the ability to stop Nick and Sharon’s romantic reunion in its tracks?! As it turns out he kinda, sorta does, as Young & Restless’ newest shocking twist clearly demonstrates.
Cane iadvertently sped up the inevitable “Shick” reunion when he had them held captive in France. There wasn’t a doubt in our mind from the moment Carter closed and locked that door that the situation would escalate the sexual tension they’d been battling. And while they didn’t decide to drink the Deleone wine and get naked, in the end, they shared a tender kiss after Nick nearly died playing hero.
To the delight of “Shick” fans, the momentum continued after they returned home, with Nick “showing” Sharon how he felt about her with yet another kiss in Crimson Lights. Since then, we’ve been left to assume that they’ve been spending time together and slowly making their way back to a full-on reconciliation. But all that is about to grind to a halt. Why?
A new twist has reared its head, one that fans of Sharon and Nick will find downright exasperating, but probably not surprising. Just as the high school lovebirds are finding their way back to their love nest, Nick’s been given marching orders by his siblings, concerned about Cane’s machinations, that will 1000% throw a huge monkey wrench into the works.
As Victor geared up for a war with Cane over the AI software that could potentially be used for evil, Victoria and Adam deduced that the best way to get the inside scoop would be for Nick to get close to Cane’s supposed right-hand, his ex-wife Phyllis.
At the very moment Victoria was informing her brother that he needed to become the redhead’s “best friend and confidante” again, Phyllis was over in Chancellor Park telling Cane how much she could relate to him wanting to recapture the magic with his ex. If that’s not foreshadowing, folks, we don’t know what is.
We’re calling it now: Nick, who will do anything for his family, will risk hurting Sharon again to cozy up to the one person who will be a deal-breaker for her — Phyllis. Red will fall for it hook, line and sinker given she’s still emotionally fragile from the kidnapping, Sharon will start walking in on “Phick” scenarios that make the hair on her neck stand up, and Nick might even begin to experience some confusion himeself… he does love both women after all.
Thanks to Cane, we’ve found ourselves with a set-up for an unmitigated disaster that will almost certainly stop the “Shick” reunion cold before it can even actually happen! Do you think Nick will lose Sharon?
Next Gen NYC’s Georgia McCann Opens Up About Eating Disorder & Once Weighing 88 Pounds as She Talks Recovery
Georgia McCann recently opened up about an eating disorder she’s struggled with since middle school.
After recently seeking nearly a month of inpatient treatment, the 24-year-old Next Gen NYC star addressed her recovery as she recalled the “wake up call” that prompted her to get help and spoke candidly about the darkest moments of her journey.
“[Recovery is] the best thing I ever, ever decided to do … I’m feeling amazing now,” Georgia told PEOPLE. “I had to learn to love myself; that radical acceptance. And it’s really allowed me to reframe my relationship with my body. I’m so proud of where am I today.”
“I know it sounds cheesy, but I’m thankful I’m alive,” she continued. “The weight I was down to, I could have died. I wasn’t a medical emergency, but I was very close to it. So I feel grateful for every moment, and every bite of food I take now.”
Although Georgia is in a good place currently, it was just three months ago when a friend called her a week after the show’s premiere party and told her she feared for her life after seeing her at “the thinnest [she’d] ever been.”
“It was a literal wake-up call,” Georgia shared of the call from her friend. “It was definitely the most severe it’s ever been. I was battling a lot of depression and anxiety at the same time, and I just had no appetite. I lost 25 pounds in like, two months. I weighed 88 pounds.”
As Next Gen NYC began airing, fans took notice of Georgia’s small frame and began to comment online.
“I was mortified, honestly,” she recalled. “It was this 400-comment Reddit thread just like, dissecting my body. And some people were nice about it, saying, ‘She needs help, I hope she’s okay.’ But others were just so, so cruel. And I just didn’t want to look at it. I was so, so ashamed.”
But for Georgia, her eating disorder didn’t stem entirely from self-image.
“It was always centered around control,” she explained. “It started for me around eighth grade; there were things going on in my home life, things happening with my hormones; I felt depressed. What was happening to me was unmanageable, and this was a way to take control of something during a time where I couldn’t control anything else.”
“It was like, a maladaptive coping mechanism of sorts,” she went on. “Like, I was very, very aware of like how thin I was. But there was just something in my brain where I couldn’t stop. It’s the only way I felt safe.”
In the midst of her battle, Georgia restricted her eating and purged.
“There was no one method of control, it was the whole gamut,” she noted. “Most recently, I just wasn’t eating at all. And in a weird way, I mentally trained my mind and my body to be repulsed by food, which made it easier to not eat. And then when I would eat, my stomach had shrunk so much that after five bites, I felt full. So it was sort of this self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Luckily, after hearing from her friend and fans, Georgia decided to make a change.
“I was just sick and tired of being sick and tired,” she reasoned. “I was just really, really not happy with how I was treating my body. I kept saying, ‘Why am I doing this to myself?’ Nothing about this coping mechanism was bringing me happiness. And that’s actually the antithesis of how I try and lead my life.”
“I was tired; tired of hiding, tired of lying,” she continued. “I was always making excuses when people would ask if I was okay. Like, ‘I’m fine, I just haven’t been hungry!’ And I couldn’t do it anymore.”
After getting help, Georgia felt like she got her life back.
“Letting go of control is like true freedom. And I’ve really felt that way,” she shared. “I did a lot of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) … It helped me address these intense emotions and intrusive thoughts as they came up, and taught me to identify from where they were coming so that I could let them easily pass. And that’s really worked for me.”
Georgia has also shifted her perspective on her body.
“It’s like this vessel that’s allowing me to experience the miracle of being alive,” she explained. “It lets me love people, and create, and travel and exchange with others. So I see it differently now, because for so long it was just this disposable object to me.”
