Thomas Scott, born in Los Angeles, California, in 1956, began her acting career at the age of 13 with her first appearance in “Marnie.”
Over the next few years, she had several minor appearances in television and cinema, including roles with great actors such as Clint Eastwood and Kirk Douglas. She also studied piano performance at the University of Southern California.
Although she had some success in both theater and television, including many Emmy nominations and wins from Soap Opera Digest Awards and Soap Opera Update Awards, many people were unaware of Thomas Scott’s tragic childhood background.
Her mother abandoned her when she was a baby. Instead of being cared for by her mother, she was left to be cared for by her grandmother, who sadly enabled numerous people to mistreat young Thomas Scott without intervening.
A few decades later, Thomas Scott published a memoir on these occurrences called “Always Young and Restless: My Life On and Off America’s #1 Daytime Drama,” published in 2020, providing an honest view into the life that existed before the public eye.
Scott first witnessed her grandmother’s abuse when she was four years old. Despite being in the same room as Scott, her grandma refused to intervene, allowing Scott to be abused throughout her childhood.
Her home life was riddled with bugs, garbage, and a lack of protection, which drove her to pursue a profession as a child actor as an escape. She found a sense of normalcy in her work that she had never had before, which fueled her enthusiasm for acting even more.
Even though her grandmother’s health was declining, Scott left her grandmother’s residence when she turned 20. She recognized that talking to grandma about why she permitted the abuse would be fruitless; if only her grandmother hadn’t been so scared of going to the doctor, then maybe things would have been different. Despite this terrible childhood, Scott managed to overcome these obstacles and go on despite them.