Late 'Young and Restless' Star Billy Miller Honored by TV Wife Amelia Heinle
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Two weeks after the death of soap star Billy Miller, his the Young and the Restless co-star Amelia Heinle honored the late actor with a touching tribute.
Alongside a throwback photo of Miller as a child, Heinle–who played his character Billy Abbott's wife Victoria Newman on the CBS soap, a relationship pairing fans dubbed "Villy"–recalled a memory the late actor shared with her over a decade ago.
"My favorite thing growing up was hiding out from the rain in our little barn with a tin roof on it, it’s still my favorite sound. Listening to it coming down and the way it gave me peace. - by Billy Miller 2010," she wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday, Oct. 1. Heinle also tagged Miller's account, @billyjohnmiller, and added the hashtags: "#cbsdaytime" and "#yandr."
Heinle, 50, joins many Hollywood stars and fellow soap actors who took to social media to mourn the devastating loss since his tragic passing last month. Even the show paid tribute to the Daytime Emmy winner, with a montage of footage from his days appearing on TY&TR, in which Miller starred from 2008 until 2014, and a message that read: "In loving memory."
As Parade previously reported, Miller passed away on Friday, Sept. 15, in Austin, Texas, just two days before what would have been his 44th birthday.
According to his grief-stricken mother, Patricia Miller, the soap opera star died by suicide following a years-long mental health battle. "He fought a long, hard, valiant battle with bipolar depression for years. He did everything he could to control the disease."
She added at the time, "We all loved him so much and are desperately trying to deal with our loss."
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