Here’s what makes this spiral so hard to watch on The Young and the Restless — it’s not coming out of nowhere. It’s built on years of investment, sacrifice, and a fight that Devon Hamilton genuinely believed gave him the right to protect his son at all costs.
This is a man who fought to be recognized as Dominic’s father. He showed up, he went to court, he stayed present when it mattered. Then Mariah Copeland — the surrogate who was supposed to be family — kidnapped that child and disappeared. There’s no version of that story where Devon doesn’t come out of it furious.
The anger makes sense. What doesn’t make sense anymore is what he’s doing with it.
Because the moment Devon filed that petition behind Abby Newman’s back, this stopped being about protection and started becoming something else. The court already ruled. Mariah pleaded guilty. She’s in treatment. The system made a call, and Devon decided that wasn’t enough.
That’s where the line shifted.
Abby sees it. The court sees it. Even the people around them are starting to see that this isn’t justice — it’s control. And the most uncomfortable part is that Devon himself seems completely blind to it.
When Abby asks if he’s trying to push Mariah into breaking her own plea deal, and he doesn’t shut that down immediately… that says everything about where his head is right now.
This is where fans are splitting hard:
Some say Devon is 100% justified — you don’t just forgive someone who kidnapped your child
Others argue he’s crossed into obsession, and it’s already hurting Dominic more than helping
And then there’s the bigger question nobody wants to answer out loud… has Devon quietly become the villain of his own story?
Because if this keeps going the way it is, the real fallout might not be about Mariah at all — it might be the collapse of Devon and Abby’s marriage, and a child growing up in the middle of that damage.
So where do you land on this?Was Devon right to keep fighting… or did he go too far the moment he shut Abby out and took this into his own hands?
