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From the start of the series, the lack of a relationship with her father serves as motivation for Erica's actions.

She is an example of the Nixon staple of the " lost daddy's girl ".

Eric abandons her and her mother before the start of the show, when Erica is nine years old.

As a result, she develops a severe abandonment complex.

Since Eric leaves his family for a successful career in Hollywood, Erica also longs for a life of fame and a successful man.

This motivation is maintained in the character decades into the series.

" Susan added a lot of Erica's background ," Behr said.

" Rather than playing it as if Erica's just a rotten character, she added the pathos of this child who was deserted by her father.

Every time she did a scene about how ' My father loves me.

I know that he loves me and nobody is going to tell me differently ,' she colored it with the knowledge that she had really been deserted.

It worked so well that the writers reached the point where they said we have to play this out.

" In 1989, the Eric Kane character makes his first onscreen appearance as Erica goes in search of him and finds him working as a clown at a circus.

She attempts to help him out of his current circumstances, but he ends up betraying her and leaving Pine Valley.