Like her character, Davidson also wanted to start fresh.

“Yes, I am leaving my second home @YandR_CBS in September.

Time for a little more control over my day to day!”

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Since then, both actresses have returned on a full-time basis.

By the end of 2018,Young left “Y&R.”

“I decided pretty much a year before I left.

Eileen Davidson Ashley The Young and the Restless

It really had nothing to do with Mal.

He actually wasn’t even technically the head at that point,” she toldSoap Opera Digest.

I’ve been doing this for a long time.

Eileen Davidson Ashley The Young and the Restless

I was kind of wanting to not have to be somewhere all of the time."

Davidson got her wish and also got the chance to play Ashley without having to be somewhere every day.