Allison Lanier exits ‘The Young and the Restless’

Winter is coming for Genoa City.

Allison Lanier, the Emmy-nominated actress who has played Summer Newman on The Young and the Restless for the last three years, announced on Wednesday that she’s exiting the popular CBS soap.

“This Friday, May 2nd, will be my last episode on Y&R,” she wrote in a Wednesday post shared to social media. “I’ve loved the journey and learned so much but it’s time to grow in a different direction… very grateful for all of the Y&R fans who have supported me <3.”

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Lanier and CBS for comment.

The actress joined the cast of the long-running sudser in May 2022, taking on the role of Summer Newman, who has been a series mainstay since her birth on a 2006 episode. Lanier was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2024 for her performance, losing the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series trophy to her Y&R costar Courtney Hope.

She took over the character from Hunter King, who had played the part on and off since 2012, and was awarded two Daytime Emmys for her effort, in 2014 and 2015. Before King, Summer was portrayed by Lindsay Bushman, Samantha Bailey, and an assortment of twin child actors, including Elara and Rhea Kerwin, and Bianca and Chiara D’Ambrosio.

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The daughter of Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford) and Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow), Summer’s kind-hearted nature has earned her many fans, but her rebellious streak has led to her fair share of scrapes over the years.

Summer has been kidnapped, sent into anaphylactic shock by a peanut-laced kiss, played accomplice to a cop killer, committed bribery, grand theft auto, and much more.

Lanier joins Colleen Zenk in leaving The Young and the Restless. The four-decade veteran of As the World Turns made her exit after just over a year on the series in appropriately grand fashion, by swigging a teacup full of crushed sleeping pills in a January episode.