Gloria Abbott Bardwell is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network.

[2][3] By December, news broke that Van Ark had decided to leave The Young and the Restless because she was unaccustomed to the rigors of daytime television, including the long work days and the fast turnaround on scripts and production.

[10] In October 2014, it was announced that Chapman would appear as Gloria on the soap opera's sister series, The Bold and the Beautiful, with her scenes airing on November 20, 2014 (episode 6958).

[11] In September 2015, Chapman stated on her Facebook page that she had "no idea" whether or not she would ever be asked back to The Young and the Restless, writing that she personally believed she would never return.

[12] In November 2016, however, upon the installation of Sally Sussman as co-executive producer and head writer, Chapman was announced to be returning to The Young and the Restless the following month for an unspecified amount of time.

"[16] On October 21, 2014, Michael Logan from TV Guide reported that Chapman would cross over to The Young and the Restless' sister soap The Bold and the Beautiful on November 20.

She met the charming River Baldwin (Michael Gross) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and he dropped out of college to live in a hippie commune with Gloria.

In reality, River tried to stop the bomb threat, but he was forced to flee to Canada in order to protect Gloria and Michael.

While John was incarcerated, Gloria, hoping to endear herself to her stepchildren, obtained a sample of "GloAgain," Jabot's latest skincare product, from Ashley.

Unbeknownst to Gloria, however, Jack sent the samples of product out early to select Jabot customers, and a woman died from using the tainted skin cream.

Katherine Chancellor, who was running Jabot in John's absence, blamed Jack for the tragedy, firing him from the company.

Jack, still resentful over the circumstances that led to his father's incarceration, intentionally lied to Gloria about the time of the service, causing her to miss John's funeral.

Gloria received half of John's billion dollar fortune and she quickly went from rags to riches in no time at all.

With Jeffrey's help, Jack hired Alistair Wallingford (Jerry Douglas) to haunt Gloria due to his uncanny resemblance to John Abbott.

Suddenly, Jeffrey filed for divorce, including half of Gloria's net worth, because they couldn't agree on her finances.

When River came to Genoa City to apologize, Gloria and Michael forgave him but Jeffrey turned him in to the FBI out of jealousy.

In the end, Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) bought Gloria's shares and he transferred her payment into an offshore account.

Michael cleared Gloria's name when he proved that the woman who supposedly died from the skin cream had a previous medical condition.

To make matters worse, River left town when Michael discovered that he stole millions of dollars from a bank located near the bombing in the 1960s, and Kevin was admitted to a mental institution.

Jabot received a large sum of money in the settlement and Jeffrey revealed that he only divorced Gloria to protect her assets.

They moved out of the Genoa City Athletic Club into Phyllis Newman's (Michelle Stafford) penthouse apartment suite.

In the end, Gloria and Jeffrey opened two suitcases that they believed had millions of dollars inside, but instead, blue dye exploded in their faces.

Intent on giving up her life of trickery, Deacon Sharpe (Sean Kanan) offered Gloria $5 million if she retrieved an original Terroni painting for him.

In addition, Gloria became a real estate agent and she sold her first house to her former stepson, Billy Abbott, and his new wife, Victoria Newman (Amelia Heinle).

With no money to run her beloved club, Gloria began to romance Angelo to keep her business afloat.

Angelo's daughter, Angelina Veneziano (Diana DeGarmo), began to pursue Kevin, but he was engaged to Chloe Mitchell.

While "on the run," Angelo hired one of his henchmen to kill Kevin, and Gloria believed that he was leading the search to find him.

However, Jeffrey later regains his memory but is later bound and gagged in an alley outside of Gloworm no thanks to Angelo, who intends to run off and marry Gloria.

Gloria attempts to disguise this incident as sexual assault on gossip show GC Buzz and tries using it to blackmail Jack into giving her some sort of compensation.

In 2022, Charlie Mason from Soaps She Knows placed Gloria 25th on his list of the best 25 characters from The Young and the Restless, writing that "Somewhere, Bette Davis is gnashing her teeth over the fact that she never got to play Michael and Kevin's mother — and Joan Van Ark is facepalming, having abandoned the role of the femme fatale whose sex appeal is second only to her wicked wit.