Billy Miller, Young and the Restless Star, Dead at 43
Billy Miller, Young and the Restless Star, Dead at 43
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00:00 - Yeah, look at you.
00:02 Same day good, huh?
00:04 - Mm-hmm.
00:04 - I couldn't be more thankful
00:06 for what she went through for this family.
00:09 - Billy Miller, general hospital
00:11 in "Young and the Restless" star, has died.
00:14 He was 43 years old.
00:16 - Look, JT doesn't wanna keep him from you.
00:19 So we're gonna work all these little things out.
00:23 - EC's learned the actor died Friday,
00:26 just days shy of his 44th birthday.
00:28 A cause of death, however, has not yet been revealed,
00:32 though his reps tell ET he was struggling
00:34 with manic depression at the time of his death.
00:37 - I mean, we're here. - It's so perverted.
00:39 - This isn't real?
00:40 - No.
00:41 - Oh.
00:42 - Billy's daytime TV career began in 2007
00:45 when he joined the cast of "All My Children."
00:48 - Threaten me again and this car goes nowhere.
00:51 - Fine, good.
00:55 Just get me out of here in one piece
00:57 and then your secrets are safe with me.
00:59 - A year later, he nabbed his breakout role
01:01 as Billy Abbott on "The Young and the Restless,"
01:04 winning three Daytime Emmys as the character.
01:07 - Wait, now?
01:08 Now? - Now.
01:09 - Wait, now it's time? - Now.
01:10 - Right now. - Right now.
01:10 Hey, yo, yo, it's time, it's time.
01:12 - How long did it take to make it this far?
01:15 - It's all a pleasant blur.
01:17 - Real life or what's it been, like four weeks?
01:21 - Four weeks. - I don't know.
01:22 - Three minutes?
01:24 15 minutes.
01:25 - We don't know how we got here, we're just here.
01:27 - In 2014, Billy took a part on another well-known soap,
01:31 "General Hospital."
01:33 - You always find a way to rise above.
01:35 Guess you are a little phoenix.
01:37 - And one of his most recent roles includes
01:40 portraying Harvey's brother, Marcus, on "Suits,"
01:43 which has recently had a resurgence
01:45 since being added to Netflix's catalog.
01:48 - Okay, you tell me and you tell me now,
01:50 what was that all about?
01:52 - I was gambling again.
01:54 - I don't believe this.
01:55 - It was just for a few weeks,
01:56 it was almost a year ago
01:57 and I've been in a program ever since.
01:59 - Billy survived by his mother, Patricia,
02:01 sister, Megan, and her husband, Ronnie,
02:03 as well as their children.
02:05 (gentle music)
02:08 (gentle music)
02:11 (gentle music)