The Young and the Restless (Y&R) spoilers for Wednesday, May 1 tease that Southern Belle (Eileen Davidson) has a madcap plan to bag a new man for Ashley. Ashley’s psychologist friend Alan Laurent (Christopher Cousins) is in GC to help sort Ashley’s ongoing mess out, and he becomes Belle’s target.

At some point Abby Newman-Abbott (Melissa Ordway) will want to know what the heck is going on with her mom, forcing Traci Abbott (Beth Maitland) to spill all. Shouldn’t Abby have been told about this train wreck from the beginning?

Traci knows about Ashley’s blackouts and personality changes and Abby will be devastated to learn what’s happened to her mother.

The Young and the Restless spoilers: Nate and Devon Team Up

Meanwhile, Nate Hastings (Sean Dominic) and Devon Hamilton-Winters (Bryton James) put their noggins together to thwart corporate schemer Billy Abbott (Jason Thompson).

They all work at Chancellor-Winters and Billy is playing on Lily Winters’ (Christel Khalil) insecurities in order to get her on his side.

Explosive show spoilers tease that Nate is ready to stop being Mr. Nice Guy, and throw down with the family he once tried to ruin.

Y&R spoilers: Billy Is No Fool

Devon and Nate conduct a secret strategy meeting, and this will not make Lily happy if she finds out about it. In fact, it would prove to her that she can’t trust her family and should align with Billy at C-W.

Billy is dead set on gaining control of C-W and it looks like some ugly backstabbing is about to breakout in the C-Suite.

The Young and the Restless spoilers: Nikki Loses It

Elsewhere, Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott) gets drunk at the GCAC and trashes her suite like a right proper rock star. Aye caramba!

Nikki unleashes her anger over the Jordan (Colleen Zenk) situation yet she has no idea that the woman is really alive and being held captive in her wine cellar. Luckily, Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) runs to her rescue!

The Young and the Restless spoilers: Jack Saves Nikki

Nikki’s fall off the wagon was severe and she will need a lot of time before she can maintain her sobriety. She will learn that Claire Grace (Hayley Erin) has been rescued, but is it too late for Nikki to turn the corner and enjoy her happiness?