Billy Bjergsen

Billy Bjergsen is one of the central characters and has been through most of Lisa Durant's ups and downs.

Billy has had to live in the shadows a lot and has always been judged by his relatives professionally (his uncle Bertie's indiscretions shocked the business world) and personally (his mother was responsible for kidnapping his daughter, Sienna Durant.

Background
Billy's Background....

Introduction & Fake Custody Relationship
Billy is Clara and Bjorn's daredevil son, and he first meets Lisa when she comes over for dinner after leaving rehab. Billy, instantly makes a move on Lisa. Lisa knows she shouldn’t as she’s still recovering and is wary after Jeremiah but sleeps with him anyway.

Lisa confides in Billy about Clara's plan to have full custody of Cory, and he tells her he hates his mother and that he will help her ruin her chances at getting custody of Cory. Lisa needs to leave the house, and Billy tells her he has a small house in Windenburg they can live in temporarily. He also offers to pay for her arrears until she can pay him back, and she agrees. Billy tells his parents he’s going to Tokyo to find work but moves into downtown Windenburg with Lisa.

After their kiss, Lisa tells Billy that his father came onto her and he suggests that she use that and pretend to fall in love with him and tell Clara months down the line. He suggests that although it will take a while for him to fall in love with her, his parents’ broken marriage, plus a false testimony from him in court will ensure she gets her son back. Lisa asks if she’s doing this because he hates his parents or that he likes her. He says both, and the two plan their revenge.

Now settling into their house, Joaquin comes over to check his new neighbours out. He is greeted by Billy who tells him he’s moved in with his girlfriend. Joaquin asks to meet her, but Billy says she’s busy, another time. Billy tells Lisa of their new neighbour, and she begins to panic. She recognises that something has happened between them, but her mind is foggy. Billy is ecstatic to learn Lisa's pregnant, but reality hits when he realises he might not be the father.

Billy understands how they got into that situation and he promises that everything will be ok. Billy suggests getting eloped so that the court can see they’re a healthy family, but Lisa confesses that she’s already married to Joaquin, Billy recognises the name and realises it’s their neighbour.

Triplet Discovery, Tragedy and Rebuilding
Billy organises for Lisa to have an at-home scan and the nurse tells them that they’re expecting 3 babies - 2 girls and a boy. Their jaws drop but they celebrate. Lisa gives birth to Sienna, Everest and Mason and breaks up with Bjorn - it seems like they will have a stress-free life. Cory has a birthday party and a welcome home party all in one. Clara kidnaps sienna after triggering a blackout. Lisa contacts the police when she notices Sienna missing. Lisa and Billy learn that Clara was on a flight to London and that she, Shayla, Sienna and 200 other passengers all perished on the flight. Billy is instantly numb when he learns of the crash, and pushes it all back.

Eventually, the two get back on track, and Billy has a low level job in politics, which makes him happy, but his father, Bjorn wants him to take over his role as acting-CEO of PanelTech; a position Bjorn only took because his son was grieving. Billy tells his dad he'll think about it next year, and plans a Halloween party for him, Lisa, Cory, and Lisa's long-lost son Griffin Feng accompanied with matching cybermaid outfits. Billy takes it hard when Griffin is shot by his father, Victor Feng at the party.

After Griffin's Death and Lisa's changing personality
Months later, Billy has become PanelTech's CEO once again, and is in a good place with Lisa, and Cory thinks of him as a father to him. After Lisa is randomly attacked whilst walking home, her personality changes and she decides to call off her impending wedding to Billy and leaves town. Billy is devastated that Lisa has left him, but decides to focus on becoming a good parent to Cory, who he considers as his own.

A few months later, Billy bumps into a heavily pregnant Lisa in Brooklyn and they talk. Billy is angry at her for ditching him and storms off telling her he hates her and to not contact him or the kids again.

Billy decides to buy a new house for him, Cory, and the twins (Everest and Mason) and they leave the Durant Mansion. When Billy hears that Lisa has since moved into the Mansion, he decides to hijack the party as a bartender and the kids come along too to confront their mother about the abandonment. Billy doesn't take well initially to seeing Tajj, Salim, Maya and Tehzib, as he used to have that exact setup before Sienna's death. Billy and Lisa make up, and he decides that they shouldn't rekindle. Billy focuses on being PanelTech's CEO, and eventually, Cory moves back in with Lisa.

Billy's Return, Elopement and Stronger than ever
Tajj contacts Billy and begs him to speak to Lisa after she was kidnapped by her sister for over a year. By now, it's been a long time since Lisa and Billy have spoken properly, but it's like old times. Billy says Tajj told him everything and he shares his upset at not being able to be there for her.  Billy and Lisa elope! 

After Lisa relapses after Cory's presumed death, she enters rehab and tells Billy that she would understand if he wanted to divorce her - he tells her for better or worse, he'll be there. Billy and Lisa's estranged sister, Dani, butt heads when she moves in to care for the family, but become really close, and Billy fills Dani in on her sister.

Off-screen divorce and entanglement with Jade
Lisa is out of rehab, and doing well when Billy is informed he'll be needed in PanelTech's Tokyo offices as they prepare relaunch. Billy has a battle with this - he doesn't want his wife to spiral again, but a frank conversation with Dani, and later Lisa eases his worries, and he heads off to Tokyo after a tearful goodbye. Billy and Lisa manage to maintain a long-distance relationship for a while, until ultimately, they couldn't make it work and she sent him divorce papers, which he signed ( This happened off-screen as the DuMonts were being introduced).

Lisa invites the twins (Beckham and Jade) and Billy over for lunch for a catch up and things become awkward when Jade recognises Billy... Billy tells Jade his history with her mother and she feels sick but the two decide to not tell Lisa about their dalliance. Lisa asks Billy if he’s willing to give their relationship another go as they’re too grown to be messing around. He agrees to get back together and she instantly proposes. He accepts but asks her to wait until he’s settled in the house again to announce to the kids.

Jade pulls him aside and nearly tells him that she’s pregnant but decides not to. Lisa tells her daughter that she’s proposed to Billy and Jade decides to go for an abortion but after a consult from the nurse, she decides to keep the baby.

When Jade gives birth to Carter Durant, Billy asks if he's the father but Jade assures him he definitely isn't and warns him to back off otherwise she'll tell Lisa they slept together and he backs off.

Billy Durant (again) and Jade's manipulation
Now months later, Lisa and Billy have since married (offscreen) when Angelica Tucson (Maria Vitali) approaches Billy about selling the Flamingo Lounge, he's hesitant, but agrees to sell for $180,000 (a huge discount from the first $540,000 price) after the Lounge is destroyed by a fire.

Billy works signing paperwork from home and asks Jade to bring some stamps over. When Jade arrives and hands him the stamps, he doesn't know that she's replaced the backs of them with LSD tabs and due to the excessive licking of the "stamps", he slowly becomes paranoid and dangerous. His behaviour is a cause for concern and he begins acting out of character, he even goes as far as seducing Jade and sleeping with her. When he returns home and sees Virginia in his house, he freaks out and beats her up. Lisa realises that he needs professional help and decides to sell the buildings in Montford Square for cheap to Jade (just until Billy's better).

After a month of serious treatment in a facility outside Windenburg, Billy is improving so much that he is allowed visitors. Jade takes advantage of this and heads to the centre as Lisa. Billy's medication makes him unable to clearly recognise people and therefore believes Jade-as-Lisa when she tells him she's been cheating on him. When Lisa and Jade visit Billy the next day, he reveals he wants a divorce. Unfortunately for Billy, he can't be granted a divorce until a doctor declares him fit enough to do so. Months later, Billy is released and although he's separated from her, he's friendly with her.

Billy's Return and Jade's pregnancy
At a party hosted by Lisa to celebrate his return, Billy is surprised to see his friends and family celebrate his recovery. Jade reveals her role in drugging Billy and that she's keeping the buildings in her name. He privately confronts Jade about what she’s done and confesses to drugging him for months and reveals she was actually pregnant with his child and aborted the pregnancy. Billy and Jade start arguing and soon enough they kiss, then sleep together.

Although she discovers that Jeremiah is the father of her unborn child, she continues to lie to Billy and tell him that he is the father, with the hopes of pushing Billy and Lisa to divorce. Jade persuades Billy to come clean to Lisa and he does so, devastating her. At the Love Festival, Lisa decides to divorce Billy. Billy later questions the paternity test and Jade is furious with him even though she knows he isn’t the father of her baby. Jade hears that Lisa is divorcing Billy and decides if she can convince him the baby is his long enough for the two of them to have signed divorce papers, she’ll be fine. Lisa unexpectedly reveals she’s pregnant too, leaving Billy in a dilemma.

Jade goes into early labour at the cliffhouse when Billy turns up looking to patch things up between mother and daughter. Jade instructs Billy to leave but he stays and coaches Jade through the birth. He’s baffled when Jade gives birth to a mixed-race baby girl and demands the truth. Jade confesses she lied about paternity and then lies, saying that the real father of her child is a bully. She doesn’t name him, but Billy finds himself accepting her faux apology and rushes home to tell Lisa the good news, hoping that will prevent a divorce and finds her in the Square with cramps. They rush to the hospital only to find out that Lisa has had a miscarriage. Lisa is now more adamant than ever to go through with the divorce. Lisa and Billy sign the papers, just as Jade comes home with Ruby Durant, her daughter.

After divorce, meeting Becca Clarke
Now single for a few months, Billy meets Becca Clarke, a business associate and the two fall in love. They elope in the Square (secretly enraging Lisa as that's where they married) when Billy gets a job opportunity in Tokyo. Billy sees Lisa and her children and decides to leave. Lisa privately congratulates him and they part amicably, although Billy isn’t sure if he’ll ever be able to look at her the same. Billy takes one last look at Montford Square - probably the last time he’ll see it as it is. He walks out with Becca, unsure if he's making the right decision.

Crimes Committed

 * Beat up sister in law Virginia Baxter while poisoned with LSD tabs

Health & Vitals

 * Drugged with LSD by Jade Durant