Before auditioning for the role of Phyllis Summers on The Young and the Restless 30 years ago, Michelle Stafford was thinking of putting acting on the back burner. “I had a succession of getting close to jobs and then not getting them,” she explains. “A couple of weeks prior to the Young and Restless audition, I had created a flower business with a friend of mine because things weren’t going well for me as an actor.