“All My Children” recasts its lesbian character of Bianca Montgomery with actress Christina Bennett Lind

It was just last year that Erica Cane’s daughter took part in daytime’s first lesbian wedding. But shortly after the nuptials, actress Eden Riegel, who won an Emmy in the role of Bianca Montgomery, left the show.

Eden recently began a new role on The Young and the Restless but Bianca will return to Pine Valley on June 14 and be played by Christina Bennett Lind, according to TVGuideMagazine.

“Christina oozes goodness and we really needed that for Bianca,” says exec producer Julie Hanan Carruthers. “Eden brought an integrity and honest innocence to the role that was very tough to match. We turned the earth upside going through the candidates. When Christina came in to read for the part she was Bianca. I think it’ll be a very easy transition for the audience.”

Says Lind of her new gig: “I can only hope I do half of what Eden did with the part. She played it with amazing grace and dignity. Now I need to breathe my own life into it.”