What Really Happened Between Donna And Eric On The Bold And The Beautiful

When Donna and Eric first got together, Eric was still married to his wife Stephanie, but that wasn’t the most uncomfortable part of their romance (via SoapCentral). Donna had previously dated Eric’s son Thorne Forrester (Winsor Harmon) and tried to entice his other son Ridge Forrester (then Ronn Moss) into a romance, too. Eric had dated Donna’s mother Beth Logan (then Nancy Burnett), and had been previously married to her sister Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) twice. Talk about complicated family dynamics!

Eric’s family was not pleased with the new woman in his life and many of them tried, and failed, to break them up. First, Eric’s daughter Felicia Forrester (Lesli Kay) paid Owen Knight (Brandon Beemer) to seduce Donna, but she quickly shut him down (via SoapCentral). Then, Stephanie’s sister Pam Douglas (Alley Mills) began drugging Eric so that he would be unable to perform sexually, hoping Donna would lose interest in Eric and he would be free to return to Stephanie. When that didn’t work, Pam kidnapped Donna, tied her up in a remote cabin and doused her with honey, and then tried to sic a bear on her — an ode to Donna’s nickname for Eric, Honeybear. Fortunately, Donna was rescued before she became ol’ Smokey’s dinner. Then, Thorne hired lookalikes of Donna and Owen to kiss in front of security cameras to make Eric believe that Donna had cheated on him. Somehow, though it was quite literally the two of them against the world, Eric and Donna’s bond remained strong amidst the chaos. In fact, Eric went as far as to adopt Donna’s adult son Marcus (Texas Battle).