Infatigable multi-hyphen Victoria Rowell (ex-Drucilla Barber Winters, The Young and the Restless) will be honored this Friday (May 31) for her advocacy efforts at the adult prom gala put on by the She Ready Foundation created by actress/standup artist/fellow foster child Tiffany Haddish.

Victoria Rowell’s Multiple May Honors

“[Haddish] told me the most amazing story at an award ceremony last year in Beverly Hills,” recalled Rowell to Soap Opera Digest. “She was on the red carpet and I was a few steps ahead of her. I had never met her before and after we acknowledged each other, she said to me, ‘You know, you spoke at my high school about foster care and I decided I’m going do what she’s doing. I’m going to be an actress. If she can do it, I can do it.’ It was such a beautiful full-circle moment and we’ve been in touch ever since, so she’s honoring me at her gala.”

Earlier this month, Rowell celebrated her May 10th birthday by attending the CASA/LA’s 12th Annual Reimagine Gala at The Beverly Hilton. “I’ve had a relationship with CASA/LA since the early 2000s when I was asked to lecture for them I’ll be speaking for them again in the fall around National Adoption Day [November 23]. This [year’s marking of it] ties back in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the foster care and adoption storyline on Young And Restless with Devon, played beautifully all these years by the talented Bryton James.”

It was, of course, the actress/author/director/producer/speaker who first floated the idea of a storyline focused on foster care to co-creator/then-head writer William J. Bell. And while it took some time, and a change in leadership, the CBS sudser did eventually tackle the issue. Recalls Rowell, “Jack Smith picked it up, and said, ‘We’re going to greenlight this, we’re going to do this story.’

“The power of the story is not only the millions of people that it touches but also the awards that it attracted, like the [NAACP] Image Awards and [Daytime] Emmys. Plus, those performances were included in Writers Guild reels and Directors Guild reels. We really had a powerful consortium of excellent actors, going all the way to the actress that played the social worker, Davenia McFadden [ex-Lorena Davis], who did a brilliant job, and they pulled off the storyline in an authentic way.”

Fans of Rowel can look forward to seeing her in the upcoming flick Summer Camp starring Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, and Alfre Woodard.

Daily Drama issues Victoria Rowell a hearty congratulations.

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