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(Editor\'s Note:\\nThis episode of Daytime Confidential featuring Victoria Rowell\\n(ex-Drucilla Winters, The Young and the Restless) was set to air as our\\nspecial 300th episode, however after completing the interview, we\\nrealized we couldn\'t sit on it. Download now to find out why!)

From her unforgettable debut in 1990 as Drucilla Barber the street smart niece of Mamie, the Abbott maid, on The Young and the Restless, through today as a world-recognized advocate for foster children and a New York Times\\nBest Selling author, few actresses in the history of daytime television\\nhave made the kind of impact of Victoria Rowell. Who better then than\\nRowell to help Daytime Confidential celebrate our 300th episode?

Rowell speaks to Luke and Jamey from Atlanta, GA, where she is busy doing press for her hugely successful memoir The Women Who Raised Me, as well as writing her juicy first novel\\u2013Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva.

Rowell talks about the experience of\\nbeing out on the road for the past 17 months "pressing flesh" with the\\ndroves of fans who have adored watching her on the big (Distinguished Gentlemen, Eve\'s Bayou) and small screen (Y&R, Diagnosis Murder) for the past 25 years.

She talks passionately about her work\\nwith foster children, via the foundation she started almost 20 years\\nago, the Rowell Foster Children\'s Positive Plan (RFCPP). She elaborates\\non how her other passion\\u2013ballet\\u2013helped\\nher to carve a niche for herself in the world as a 17-year-old girl,\\nfresh from the foster care system and why the RFCPP strongly utilizes\\nthe arts to teach its students discipline.

Rowell then provides a revealing and sometimes shocking glimpse into her time on The Young and the Restless,\\nwhere she rose to fame as the insurmountable Dru. She remembers how it\\nfelt to work with the legendary Bill Bell, whom she shares she was as\\n"thick as thieves" with. She tells how the daytime pioneer allowed her\\nto help shape many storylines for the Barber-Winters family over the\\nyears, including Dru\'s ballet storyline and the\\nCongressionally-recognized foster care storyline which helped win\\nBryton McClure (Devon) the Emmy and how that spirit of collaboration\\nand trust died with Bell.

She reveals how it feels to have never\\nwon the Emmy herself (she was nominated twice and boasts 11 NAACP Image\\nAward) and why she feels a "gang mentality" exists among much of the\\ncast of daytime\'s number one show in terms of Emmy voting. She tells\\nhow on set popularity is measured above actual talent when it comes to\\nmaking the all-important list of pre-nominees.

Rowell goes on to respond to remarks made by former Y&R costar Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott) in an interview with TV Guide Canada\'s\\nNelson Branco. Rowell reveals just why she feels Bergman is absolutely\\nright, she wasn\'t "playing with a full deck", but not in terms of her\\nsanity, in terms of onset equality.

She talks about what it was like working\\nopposite Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Newman) and why an onset violation\\nresulted in Sony Pictures Studios (which co-owns the CBS soap with Bell\\nDramatic Serial Company) having to get involved to facilitate an\\napology.

She answers a Daytime Confidential\\nreader\'s question about why Lily (Christel Khalil) doesn\'t seem to have\\nher mother\'s spirit and responds to questions about when and if she\\nwill ever return to Y&R. It\'s only fitting that this, our 300th\\nepisode, is Daytime Confidential\'s most revealing, poignant,\\njaw-dropping, interview ever.