Damon Porter - Cordelia Abbott

Cordelia Abbott
The Young and the Restless character
Portrayed by Riley, Olivia, & Isabelle Jones
(2009–10)
Alix & Madeline Dubois (2010–11)
Sophie Pollono (2011—)
Duration 2009—
First appearance February 16, 2009
Created by Maria Arena Bell, Hogan Sheffer, and Scott Hamner
Profile
Residence The Chancellor Estate
196 E. Chestnut Street
Genoa City, Wisconsin
Family
Parents Billy Abbott
Chloe Mitchell
Siblings Johnny Abbott
Grandparents John Abbott
Jill Abbott Fenmore
Esther Valentine
Aunts and uncles Jack Abbott
Ashley Abbott
Phillip Chancellor III
Traci Abbott Connolly
Lauren Fenmore Baldwin
First cousins Keemo Abbott
Kyle Jenkins Abbott
Chance Chancellor
Colleen Carlton
Abby Newman

Cordelia "Delia" Katherine Valentine Abbott is the daughter of Billy Abbott and Chloe Mitchell. She was born on February 16, 2009 (SOARSED February 16th 2007) at the Abbott cabin and was delivered with the help of Billy and Lily Winters.

She was first played by triplets Riley, Olivia, & Isabelle Jones. Cordelia was notably played by twins Alix & Madeline Dubois who "stole the hearts of fans." Cordelia, now 5 years old on screen (2 years older than the age she would be in normal years) is played by Sophie Pollono. Cordelia's storylines so far have involved being missing and kidnapped, and having an illness later revealed to be Leukemia. Her fight with the disease left a panic wave through the town to find her donor and left her mother devastated. She has since recovered and returned home.

Throughout Chloe's pregnancy, she tricked Cane Ashby into believing he was Delia's father. The truth about Delia's paternity was revealed soon after her birth, and Billy Abbott was the baby's true father. Even after the reveal, Cane still considered himself Delia's father and planned to sue Chloe and Billy for full custody. He dropped the suit after his wife, Lily, talked him out of it, saying that Delia needed to be with her mother. Once the truth about Cane's family came to light, he revealed to Billy and Chloe that by using Billy's half-brother, Phillip Chancellor III's, blood for the DNA test, he knew all along that Billy was Delia's father.

Jana Hawkes kidnapped Delia, along with Billy's "adopted" daughter, Lucy, after finding out the truth about Lucy's paternity, which revealed that Daniel Romalotti and Daisy Carter are her biological parents. In delirious hopes to be a family with her ex-husband, Kevin Fisher, she took Delia because she is Chloe's baby, and Chloe was Kevin's girlfriend at the time. She took Lucy because Jana was the only one who knew who Lucy's biological parents were. Delia was let go, along with Lucy, in a nearby church where Kevin had persuaded Jana to leave the children. They were later discovered in the church by her great-grandmother Katherine Chancellor Murphy and her husband Murphy. Chloe, no longer trusting Billy with their daughter after warning of what threat Jana posed, filed for full custody of Delia. She also made a fatal slip by revealing that Lucy was bought off the black market by Billy. Chloe rethought her decision to seek full custody after seeing the pain the Billy was going through after he lost Lucy to her biological mother, Daisy.

Chloe decided to fight for full custody of Delia. She went head to head with Billy in court, who was alone until his wife, Victoria Newman, showed up to testify on Billy's behalf, even though their marriage was in turmoil. Chloe believed she would lose the court case because of the strong testimony Victoria gave. Billy was set up for solicitation of a prostitute (by the workings of Victor Newman), and he spent a night in jail, which reflected poorly on his custody case. The judge ruled in Chloe's favor and awarded her full custody of Delia. After Billy left her and the rest of his family to go to Hong Kong, Chloe only told Delia that her daddy went away on business. Billy sent Delia a jade bracelet from Hong Kong that Chloe allowed her to have.

While Chloe was hooking up with her former flame, Ronan Malloy, Delia came down with a fever of almost 105 degrees. Her grandmothers, Esther Valentine and Jill Fenmore, took her to the hospital without Chloe because she could not be reached. When Chloe returned to the Chancellor Estate, Nina Webster told Chloe that Delia was in trouble at the hospital. Delia is diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, and is in need of a bone marrow transplant. Numerous friends and family of Delia and Chloe came to visit them in the hospital, and they all offered to get tested to see if they were a donor match for Delia. Cane had his wife, Lily, who overcame her own cancer battle, come in to talk to Delia after her first chemo treatment. Delia, nor Chloe, was aware that Billy was back in Genoa City. He was not allowed to make his return public, as per Victor's wishes. With Kevin's help, Billy visited Delia while she was asleep, but after Delia told her mother that she saw her daddy in her dreams, Kevin told Billy that he shouldn't go to see his daughter again. Billy was secretly tested and found to be a match for Delia later. Because Billy was not allowed to reveal himself to anyone except Victor and the third counterpart in their plan, Kevin Fisher, no one knew that Billy was the true match. Victor forced Kevin to tell everyone that he was a match for Delia instead. Kevin, Victoria, Jill, Esther, Katherine, Cane and Chloe all came to the celebration of the good news at the hospital, fit with party hats and decorations to boot. Soon after, Kevin came to the hospital for his surgery. In reality, Billy was also at the hospital, hidden from his family, and he was really the one to undergo the transplant surgery for Delia. After the surgery, Chloe proposed to Kevin, and the couple told an excited Delia that they were getting married. On Halloween, Billy dressed up as Santa to visit Delia, but only Kevin knew that Santa was really Billy. Delia and her family found out that the transplant was successful, and she was cancer-free. Shortly after, Delia was released from the hospital, and she is currently back at home at the Chancellor Estate with her mother.

In April 2012, Delia, her mom, and Kevin all moved into Kevin's house where he used to live with Angelina.

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    What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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