Bold and the Beautiful: Li Finnegan Puts Finn on Blast Over Steffy

The Bold and the Beautiful sees Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) nearly talked into Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor)’s crazy surrogacy scheme.

And when it all comes out, as we know it will, I could see Li Finnegan (Naomi Matsuda) turning on her daughter-in-law and telling her son Finn Finnegan (Tanner Novlan), “You need to dump Steffy right now.” There are quite a few reasons to think Li is going to have a really extreme reaction to this surrogacy plan, to the cheating, and to the lies Steffy and Carter are going to keep telling.

Bold and the Beautiful: Carter Plays Dirty and Corners Steffy

So, despite Steffy telling Carter no on his suggested surrogacy scheme, of course, Carter didn’t stop. He ran over to Daphne Rose (Murielle Hilaire) and sold her on Steffy being their egg donor and surrogate. And then Carter told Daphne, “Go talk to Steffy.” So with Daphne coming to Steffy about it and Carter pressuring Steffy, she’s going to cave and I think agree to Carter’s insane scheme. Steffy really wants to come clean to Finn about the drunken one night stand, but it doesn’t look like Steffy will do it.

And that is her one shot to save her marriage—honesty. But Carter has got Steffy talked out of it soon. And Carter’s going to convince Steffy the truth never has to come out. And I mean, a DNA test would prove nothing because it would be Carter and Steffy’s child biologically, whether it’s the egg donor surrogate lie or not. The only issue is timing. Carter and Steffy need to fake this surrogacy as soon as possible.

And I suspect they will. And then months down the road, maybe during the pregnancy, maybe even after Carter and Steffy’s baby is born, we know that the truth will come out. And that’s got me wondering about the reaction of Finn’s adoptive mom. I think Li’s going to have really strong opinions about this for several reasons.

Li Rages at Steffy on B&B

First being that Steffy cheated on her son, Finn, and for no justifiable reason. It was not his fault that Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown) peeped at his travel plans and then hijacked his trip. Finn demanded that Sheila go home. He even bought her a ticket. And Sheila would have left if her flight hadn’t been delayed. And as we know, Finn didn’t invite Sheila along. Finn didn’t want her there.

He was going to tell Steffy, but then she threw her ring at Finn, left Monaco, got drunk, and slept with Carter. There’s no way Steffy can ever justify cheating in a way that will calm Li’s anger. She is going to be disgusted. And Steffy cannot really blame this on Sheila. There’s no world where Steffy says, “I cheated on Finn because Sheila followed him to Monaco.” And Li goes, “Okay, cool.”

So, the obvious reason for Li to explode on Steffy once the truth comes out is because she cheated on her son again. Because Li was ticked when Steffy cheated with Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton). And Li told Finn at the time she didn’t like the drama that Steffy was dragging into Finn’s life. And here we have again drama. That’s reason one.

Bold and Beautiful: Li Triggered by Trauma

The second reason ties back to Finn’s history. If you remember, Sheila and Jack Finnegan (Ted King) tricked Li with a big baby lie back in the day. Similar to the Carter and Steffy cheating, Li’s husband cheated on her with Sheila, and Jack got Sheila pregnant. And then Jack tricked Li into adopting the baby he had made with his side piece, Sheila. So Li is cool with Sheila now.

But this surrogacy scheme is probably going to remind Li of all that mess. And of course, she loves Finn, doesn’t regret adopting him, but Li still despises Jack for lying to her face. Now Steffy’s basically doing the same thing to Finn. And I think Li will despise Steffy for it. And adoption to cover cheating is almost the same as surrogacy to cover cheating. I can see it might trigger Li when the truth comes out about Steffy faking this surrogacy.

Li didn’t know until Finn was an adult exactly what happened. And when she found out, Li was horrified. She was furious. She immediately dumped Jack. And now Carter is kind of taking a page out of Jack’s playbook. And even though Carter’s the one who came up with the surrogacy scheme, Steffy will eventually go along with it. So Li is going to be absolutely furious with Steffy for tricking Finn and making him think Steffy is doing something amazing for her best friend Daphne.

Bold and the Beautiful: Steffy’s Lies Compound

We may see Finn hesitant about Steffy being a surrogate for Daphne. And I think Steffy’s going to have to sell it with more lies, about doing it out of the kindness of her heart to help Daphne and Carter’s baby dreams come true. Finn is then going to be singing Steffy’s praises to Li. You know, “Steffy’s so wonderful. This sacrifice is huge.” And Finn may tell Li, “Look how wonderful Steffy is. I don’t deserve her.” Blah blah blah. Except she’s not wonderful. She is participating in a sneaky plan and it’s all designed to cover up Carter and Steffy’s dirty secret and hide the fact they cheated on their spouses.

That’s how Li is going to see it. And yes, Finn’s mom loves Steffy, but Li’s also had concerns about Steffy in the past, especially when she found out she cheated with Liam. So to Li, when she’s looking at Steffy, this is a situation of fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. So Li won’t let Steffy fool her again or fool Finn. And I fully expect that when it all comes out, Li is going to turn against Steffy irrevocably. I think Li’s going to tell Finn, “You have to dump Steffy now. Walk away and just forget her.” Li may say, “Your dad Jack lied to me for decades. I won’t let you live like that. Dump Steffy now.”

Lives Blow Up on B&B

So, once it all comes out, once Daphne and Finn find out that Steffy and Carter lied to their faces, that they cheated, that they created this elaborate scheme to cover up their infidelity, clearly lives are going to be ruined. Steffy and Carter’s marriages are both going to go up in flames, and Steffy will be on her hands and knees begging, or she should be. Do you remember when Liam walked out on pregnant Steffy?

That was after Liam found the paternity test that she took for Kelly because she slept with his dad, Bill Spencer (Don Diamont). Steffy literally got on her knees and was clinging to Liam’s leg and begging him not to leave her. So, we better see Steffy do the same thing or something more extreme, trying to get Finn to stay. If Steffy begs, crawls, pleads, and cries, Finn may consider forgiving Steffy.

But Li might fight back and push Finn to go ahead and divorce Steffy because this is just one too many things to forgive. And I mean, now that Li and Sheila are friends, they’re both going to be furious with Steffy and protective of Finn. We might see Li and Sheila even gang up on him. They may go together and tell Finn, “You got to divorce Steffy, fight for custody of Hayes, and never look back.”

Steffy Torn Apart on Bold

Now, in Steffy’s defense, she legit wants to come clean to Finn. And we’ve seen Steffy in anguish trying to work up the nerve to tell Finn the terrible truth about her drunken one night stand. But Steffy’s had so many opportunities to come clean and she never did. So, we’ll see who takes the heat for it when Carter’s scheme is exposed because if you remember, the Forresters ultimately blamed Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) for the coup. That was another of Carter’s schemes. She was fired and Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) and Eric Forrester (John McCook) forgave Carter.

And if The Bold and the Beautiful sticks to that, you know, Steffy could take all the blame for this, which would be insane since Carter’s the one heavily pressuring her into it. Either way, Steffy’s going to face losing Finn and Li may play a strong role in the end of Steffy’s marriage, because this whole thing is going to remind her of what Jack and Sheila pulled on her.