Stark-raving, rubber-room bonkers! I want Nikki to be in a psychiatric ward drooling. Thomas Scott: Oooh, I'd love to have her to go nuts. TV Guide Magazine: What tragedy hasn't befallen Nikki that you'd someday like to play? So there's Victor collapsed on the ground and Nikki is down on her knees in the sand going, 'Victor, Victor, come back to me!' And there's an arrow in Victor's d-k sticking straight up in the air. We were on location out at some beach somewhere for a scuba-diving remote and the script called for Rick to shoot Victor through the d-k with a spear gun. Oh, God, I will never forget that Bill Bell storyline where Nikki was dating this guy Rick Daros, who was extremely jealous of Victor. Thomas Scott: Their whole life together is just one long sequence of disasters.

TV Guide Magazine: Let's face it, Nikki and The Mustache are a mess. They hope for that magical moment where Nikki and Victor just let their troubles go and have a hot night of sex. But the fans always want the make-up scenes, no matter how ugly and vicious the battles may get. Those are fine and dandy but nowhere near as interesting. Eric and I really look forward to the Nikki-Victor arguments, much more than their lovey-dovey scenes. Listen, the women out there would love to love a man that much - only without the lying and the secrets and the abuse. She loves him more than she wants to love him and, on especially bad days, she really hates that she loves him. Thomas Scott: It's an unexplainable, chemical thing and it's her greatest downfall. Why does she continue to put up with his toxic BS? TV Guide Magazine: Nikki's on marriage No. They want to see her stay home and have personal problems and suffer like crazy.

The viewers don't want to see Nikki be a feminist or take a job. One writing regime wanted to make her a senator, which was ludicrous. Thomas Scott: Because she's driven purely by her emotions. TV Guide Magazine: Why is Nikki still so damn fascinating after all these years? She shared with us her favorite, wildest, most trashtastic Nikki moments and we have clips to go with them that you won't believe! Check 'em out below. How does she do it? To find out, TV Guide Magazine sat down with Thomas Scott, who joined the CSB soap exactly 35 years ago Thursday. Yet somehow she has managed to remain a pillar of Genoa City society. Break out the bubbly! Nikki Newman, the hard-luck heroine played by Melody Thomas Scott on The Young and the Restless, has killed three people, married 11 times, battled pills and booze, worked as both a stripper and a hooker and even spread VD.

In My Heart by Melody Thomas