WORST BREAKUP I NICK AND CHELSEA, Y&R
Nick and Chelsea’s relationship came to a hasty, screeching halt as her portrayer, Melissa Claire Egan, wrapped up her Genoa City run. Over the years, Chelsea had slowly but surely evolved from money-grubbing grifter to a flawed but sympathetic protagonist, someone fans rooted for and cared about. Viewers who invested in the Nick/chelsea courtship, watching them fall in love as they moved on after the deaths of their respective spouses, deserved better than what they got when it came time to tear their near-union asunder, which was a story that just didn’t make sense. After Nick and Chelsea got engaged, we learned that she had, at some murky point, resorted to her con-artist ways and began embezzling from her own design company for — get this — “security for her future”. (Apparently those millions she inherited from Adam just weren’t enough of an insurance policy!) When the jig was up, the fashionista felon skipped town to avoid prison, blindsiding Nick with her disappearance. She gets points for class for leaving the ring behind, but her Dear John letter to Nick, in which she confessed to her crimes and professed her love, was a cheap parting shot, and, frankly, a whole lot snoozier than a dramatic confrontation between them would have been.