Janet Ciccone

Janet Ciccone
Julie Pinson as Janet Ciccone
As the World Turns character
Portrayed by	Julie Pinson
First appearance	May 8, 2008
Last appearance	September 17, 2010
Created by	Jean Passanante and Leah Laiman
Profile
Occupation	former waitress at Al's manager of Metro
Residence	The Lakeview Hotel
Parents Rocco Ciccone Siblings Teri Ciccone Eddie Ciccone Spouse Jack Snyder (2008–10) Children Liberty Ciccone Lorenzo Donovan Aunts and uncles Ralph Manzo Marie Manzo

Janet Ciccone (formerly Snyder) is a fictional character from the CBS Daytime soap opera As the World Turns. She was portrayed by Julie Pinson for two years until the series finale on September 17, 2010.

Janet Ciccone arrives in town at Oakdale (some distance outside Chicago) on the heels of her daughter Liberty, who is secretly the daughter of TV talk-show host Brad Snyder, brother of Jack Snyder. Liberty had been conceived in a one-night stand between Brad and Janet at their high school prom. Brad and his new wife, Katie Peretti, initially think Janet and Liberty's paternity claims are false; a subsequent DNA test reveals that Liberty is indeed Brad's daughter.

Janet gets a subsistence job as a waitress at Al's Diner, and her daughter, Liberty attends public school with Jack's son, Parker. After several months, Janet marries Jack Snyder on December 12, 2008. However, Jack maintains a protective attitude with his ex-wife, Carly Tenney, as a former power couple in town. Jack periodically spends time away from Janet, in issues involving Carly.

In 2010, Janet starts to have an affair with Dusty Donovan, after Jack leaves town, with intense soul-searching, following his accidental shooting and killing of his brother Brad. Janet doesn't know if she wants to still be in her marriage to Jack, who has also cheated on Janet with Carly, or get a marriage annulment. Jack was going to tell Janet it was over after he and Carly had decided to be together; unfortunately, when Jack went to tell Janet she was bawling because Liberty is diagnosed with leukemia (cancer). At Janet's reluctant request, her father, Rocco, arrived in Oakdale as a possible bone-marrow donor for Liberty. However, Liberty refuses her grandfather's bone marrow, accusing him of only ever even meeting Liberty because she was dying. Jack now thinks he has to stay with Janet to give her and Liberty support. Jack is still unfaithful with Carly, Carly then walks in on Janet and Dusty kissing, she plans to use this to break the couple up. Although Janet has feelings for Dusty and wants to be with him, she becomes pregnant with Jack's child in order to give Liberty a bone-marrow donor. Dusty asked Janet to marry him and she said no. Then they went to see Liberty and she told Janet to say yes so Janet told Dusty she would marry him.