If absence makes the heart grow fonder, maybe Diane’s disappearance on The Young and the Restless will afford hers a chance to expand to the point that she realizes she should forgive Jack for being kidnapped, drugged and sexually assaulted by Victor and Patty, respectively. How Diane hasn’t already done so is beyond us. But Peter Bergman has a slightly different POV.
“I think he loves her enough that he sees things from her perspective, and he does not know how to fix it,” the Emmy winner tells Soaps.com. “What she saw, no wife should see. [The whole situation] makes Jack more vulnerable than we’re used to him being.”
Since Diane played dead for years and Jack still found it within him to say bygones when she returned to the land of the living, you might think that she’d have an easier time than most people getting over a perceived betrayal like this. But thus far, that hasn’t been the case — like, at all.
It’s been horrific for Jack, but “I think for the audience, it’s a fun story when someone who has needed forgiveness has to learn to forgive,” Bergman suggests. “I hope the writers continue to explore that. This is somebody who needed forgiveness and is having trouble forgiving.”
