Kate Linder Reflects on 32 Years as Esther Valentine on 'The Young and the Restless' (Video)

Kate Linder and Laila Muhammad

The Young and the Restless actress Kate Linder recently sat down with the Hampton Roads CBS affiliate to talk about her 32 year run as Esther Valentine on the top-rated daytime soap. Linder shared her wacky story lines with NewsChannel 3's Laila Muhammad and fond memories of her TV boss, Katherine Chancellor, portrayed by the late Jeanne Cooper.

“In the beginning, Esther did not have a name. One day we were running the lines. We went to tape and she started calling me Esther,” Linder said. “There’s a plaque on her dressing room door that says Jeanne Cooper’s room, the door was always open. And that’s true. We always would run lines in her room. And even to this day, I catch myself going to her room to run lines and then going ‘Oh, my gosh! She’s not here’ and then going on the set and looking at all her pictures. I just think well she’s just not here today. I still think she’s here and very much alive and around all of us,” she said.

Watch Linder's interview below: