love to Sam after the audition, they kiss and leave the bar to go back to Sam's house. Wanting to be honest, he tells her the truth about the casting. She is emotionally devastated when he tells her that Justine has decided to cast someone else for the role. Ruth refuses to follow Sam home. Back at the hotel, the ladies put on a production of A Christmas Carol in the ring and exchange gifts. As they each depart for home, Debbie tells Ruth about Bash purchasing a television station, Debbie being the president and asking Ruth to direct a new GLOW show. Ruth declines saying she does not want what Debbie wants as she heads for her plane ride home to Omaha. Debbie Eagan Debbie Eagan (Betty Gilpin) is a former actress and Ruth's best friend. She is best known for her role as Laura Morgan in the soap opera Paradise Cove until she was fired due to her pregnancy. Her friendship with Ruth is severely strained when she discovers that Ruth had an affair with her husband Mark during and after her pregnancy, sparking a cat fight during practice that inspires Sam to cast Debbie as GLOW's leading lady. While trying to convince her to join GLOW, Sam theorizes that despite her popularity in Paradise Cove, she was being held back by the show's writers and her character was put in a coma for a whole season as punishment for improvising too many lines before she was eventually replaced by another actress. Originally oblivious to the professional wrestling business, Debbie's mindset changes when she watches a local wrestling show and sees its similarities to soap opera before having a one-night-stand with male wrestler Steel Horse. She later on realizes that wrestling is a liberating experience, as her body is not constrained by Mark or her son Randy in the ring. Debbie's in-ring persona is Liberty Belle, a patriotic Southern belle based on the real GLOW wrestlers Americana and The Southern Belles: Scarlet and Tara. In Season 2, Debbie divorces Mark after realizing he never took her acting career seriously. When the ladies are given new contracts by K-DTV, Debbie and Mark have her contract amended to make her a producer of the show. Her new position puts a strain on her already fragile friendship with Ruth, especially when she prevents Ruth from going out on a date with