23 Facts About Valene Ewing

When Valene arrives in Texas to find her daughter, Lucy Ewing, she is brought back into the drama of the Ewing family.

Van Ark received positive reviews for her portrayal of Valene Ewing, and received two Soap Opera Digest award nominations in the category "Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role on a Prime Time Serial".

Valene Ewing had her husband, Gary, stolen by another woman, then got pregnant by him, her twin babies were kidnapped by a crooked doctor, she was given a drug overdose at gunpoint by her ex-husband's fiancee, and she racked up enough marriages to give Elizabeth Taylor a run for her money.

Valene Ewing wanted to create a television show based on "family issues and examining relationships at the middle class level".

Since Valene Ewing, I've tried to do anything and everything but play a goody-two-shoes.

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Valene Ewing first appears in Dallas in 1978, as the mother of Lucy Ewing and the ex-wife of Gary Ewing, the middle son and the black sheep of the Ewing family.

However, Gary and Valene Ewing were soon pressured and manipulated by Gary's older brother, JR, who constantly tried to undermine and destroy their marriage.

Gary's father Jock liked Valene Ewing and was excited to become a grandfather, but put pressure on Gary to stand up and face his responsibilities for becoming a teenage husband and father-to-be.

When Valene gives birth to Lucy, JR makes it clear that the child is an Ewing and will be raised by the Ewings themselves.

When Valene Ewing later tried to take legal action to get Lucy back, JR warned Valene Ewing that he'd kill her if she came back to Texas.

Valene Ewing is prevented from seeing her daughter again for many years as a result of this.

Gary and Valene Ewing move back to Southfork for a short time, but their reunion is again undermined by JR, who arranged for Gary to take charge of a failing company, hoping that the pressure would drive Gary away.

Valene Ewing is initially skeptical of the move, and describes Knots Landing as "no place to start over".

Valene Ewing is struck by her neighbors, the Fairgates, and particularly by Sid's daughter, Annie, from Sid's first marriage, who reminds Val of her own daughter, Lucy.

Valene Ewing suffers a nervous breakdown and disappears from Knots Landing for several months, and is later reunited with her babies, thanks largely to the investigations secretly undertaken by her neighbors Mack and Karen MacKenzie.

Valene Ewing is seen in the 1997 reunion mini-series Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac where she begins a new career as a screenwriter and adapts her best-selling novel "Hostage", which tells the story of her kidnapping five years earlier, into a film.

In 2013, it transpires Gary and Valene Ewing have separated again due to Gary falling off the wagon.

Valene Ewing's character of Valene was a best-selling author but her personal life was always a mess.

Valene Ewing had her husband, Gary, stolen by another woman then got pregnant by him, her twin babies were kidnapped by a crooked doctor, she was given a drug overdose at gunpoint by her ex-husband's fiancee, and she racked up enough marriages to give Elizabeth Taylor a run for her money.

Valene Ewing lost her first husband to a sultry siren who applies eyeliner with a trowel.

Valene Ewing opened her heart and her home to a nagging mother who could drive Mother Teresa to slit her wrists.

Valene Ewing discovered a long-lost brother who just happened to be a psychotic TV evangelist.

Valene Ewing even had a nervous breakdown that left her convinced her name was Verna, and was an 'I do' away from tying the knot with a scheming sleazeball who was well aware of her family ties to the Ewings of Dallas even if she had forgotten.