In a new epilogue to her memoir All My Life, Lucci writes that Brian Frons, the big cheese at ABC Daytime TV, doomed the show by pushing out creator Agnes Nixon and allowing "subpar" writing. He supposedly told Lucci that the replacement show, a food program, will be cheaper to produce.
"An iconic show was losing out to greed," she writes. "If Brian Frons could . save the network 40 per cent ... he could keep his job even if the rest of us lost ours." His "decisions destroy(ed) . the lives of people," etc., etc.