Veronica Harrington

Angela Robinson as Veronica Harrington

Veronica Harrington is a character on the series, The Haves and the Have Nots. She is played by Angela Robinson.

Veronica Harrington
The Haves and the Have Nots
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Family	Harrington
Significant other(s) Spouse(s) David Harrington
Relationships Sons Jeffrey Harrington

Background

Veronica is a haughty and classy woman who hides her scorn and displeasure of those who are beneath her behind a classy facade. She is the wife of Judge David Harrington, a business partner of Jim Cryer and is the best friend of Katheryn Cryer. 

She worked hard and fought her way up the social ladder from her days of living on the South Side of Chicago.  She attended an Ivy League school, and learned the class and dignity that would come into play with her new upgrade in class.  She currently works on occasion as an attorney, but she is mainly a socialite. 

The Harringtons have one son, Jeffrey, after she had had several abortions over the years.  She thought she was pleased for Jeffrey to be alive, but when he came out as gay, she was horrified and also very angry about that. 

Due to this, Veronica's relationship with her husband has taken a hit; as well as her relationship with Jeffrey.  Her plan is to make her son straight, no matter what David or anyone else says, and has been working hard to derail any same sex relationship her son might have, even going so far as to threaten him with being jailed if he doesn't do as she wants.  She has pushed him with several women, the most notable being a woman named Melissa, which he really had no liking of, and even though they had sex, still had no liking for her.  Veronica is determined to have her son be straight, so as not to damage her reputation.

Veronica is also a recovering alcoholic, having been through rehab many times herself. Because of that, she set up a drug treatment program which Wyatt Cryer was a part of.  She doesn't really approve of Katheryn's close friendship with Hanna Young, seeing as she thinks that someone as rich as Katheryn shouldn't be fraternizing with the help, but Katheryn considers Hanna her friend (sometimes her ONLY friend), and in spite of herself, Veronica actually likes and gets along all right with Hanna, having won her favor when she helped her son, Benny, be exonerated of a crime he did not commit. A crime, which her own husband set up, to snare Candace, but accidentally snared Benny.