Scandal actress Bellamy Young recently sat down for an interview with People, where she opened up about her adoption. The magazine quotes her as follows:
"I was adopted, so I was in foster care for six weeks. We only had two lines on my dad and a paragraph on my mom. It said she loved to sing, so my mom who raised me would find any way to let me perform...When I went to join the Screen Actors Guild, there was already an Amy Young so I had to register under a different name. I tried to become Susanna or Violet or something fabulous, but it just didn't feel like I could carry the ruse off. My first [adoptive] dad died when I was 15, and his best friend, Bill, did all the dad stuff with me, so I did a mushing of our names. I felt like I could get away with it because I'm Southern."
On Scandal:
"[Creator Shonda Rhimes] came around afterward and told everyone what their arc would be for that first season. She got to me, and I was so happy. Then she told me she thought I'd be in about three episodes. She wanted to write a presidential divorce. I died inside when I heard that. But I kept a smile on my face and showed up to work every day. At some point, they decided it was fun to write stuff for me. I'm having such a good time. I don't want it to ever end."
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