Currently in her 41st year playing 'Nikki Newman' on the long-running daytime soap opera The Young And The Restless, Melody Thomas Scott is telling her Hollywood story in a new book. 

The memoir, which is entitled, Always Young and Restless, reveals some intimate and traumatic experiences during a 60-plus year career in Hollywood; over the course of which she's worked with an array of entertainment icons that includes Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.

5 Things You Need to Know:

  1. Scott met her third husband, Edward J. Scott, on the set of The Young and the Restless. He is the show's executive producer. They married in 1985, and have three daughters. 
  2. Her first film credit as a child actress was in the 1964 Alfred Hitchcock’s, Marnie. After parts in television and movies in the mid-1970s, she was in John Wayne's final film, The Shootist in 1976. She became the last actress to exchange lines with Wayne.
  3. In her book, Scott reveals for the first time some traumatic experiences from her childhood, including surviving sexual assault. 
  4. The 64-year-old actress said, "For those in pain, for those hurting, going through darkness, I want them to take away hope and encouragement and hopefully knowledge that they can come out the other side and it’s a new day and a happy day and life is good." 
  5. Having a six-decade career, Scott leaves it all to fate telling us, "I have absolute trust in my fate, fate has pulled me out of situations I should have died, I should be dead, but someone up there or somewhere has always guided me out of extreme mischief and I still believe that very strongly."