Cheri Love
Charlene Wilson, more commonly known by her alias Cheri Love, was a fictional character on CBS's daytime drama As The World Turns. She was portrayed by Robin Mattson and made her first appearance on February 12, 2007.
Story
Cheri Love first appeared when she crossed paths with Emily Stewart. Emily was metally and emotionally not in a good state. She found out that Cheri was a Madame and soon, Emily had become a prostitute herself. This was Emily's way of having controle over something in her life. After this, Cheri was questioned by Dusty Donovan several times, who was befriended to Emily and wanted to know what she was up to. Cheri got tired of Dusty and told him to get over it and stop sticking his nose into business he doesn't understand.
After while, Emily quit her "job" as protitute and told Dusty what had happened to her. This all was because off a videotape Emily saw, where her sisters Alison Stewart was doing some soft [...]. Emily tells Cheri she's done working for her and while Emily and Dusty take off to find Ali, Cheri is out of the picture.
A few months later Cheri is involved again and she is spotted more than once with Dusty, arguing AbOUT Emily. At one point, Dusty and Cheri are seen fighting again, this time at the Lakeview, where there fight is witnessed by Maddie Coleman, Noah Mayer and Winston Mayer. They walk out again and don't hear anything from Cheri again.
The next day, Cheri's body is found in her room at the Lakeview, and Dusty lies unconscious next to it. Cheri has been shot to death and the bullet turns out to be from Dusty's gun. He becomes the primarely suspect and is asked not to leave town. A few weeks later, Dusty suddenly disappears from the face of the earth. No one seems to know anything on his whereabouts. Another week later, Dusty arrives at Lily Snyders house and drops a moment away from dead on her doorway. He reveals that Winston Mayer did this to him. Dusty is brought to the hospital, where he talks to Margo Hughes. He explains that Winston is the one who killed Cheri Love and then framed him. Since Dusty was getting too close to the truth, Winston decided he had to get rid off Dusty as well.
It is then revealed that Cheri Love's real name was Charlene Wilson, the separated wife of Winston and the mother of Noah, their son. Winston banned Charlene out of his life when Noah was three years and demanded her to stay away from them from now on. Charlene wasn't aware that Noah now lived in Oakdale, too. Winston felt like she broke her promise, so he killed her. Noah is informed of the death of his mother and is shocked to hear that he saw his mother that night, during her fight with Dusty. He's even more shocked to learn that it was his own father who was her [...]. He bannes his father out of his life and grieves over his mother death, despite he didn't know her.
Family and relationships
Marital status
- Deceased
Past marriage(s)
- Winston Mayer (husband, separated)
Children
- Noah Mayer (son)