Kid Stuff
In 1997, The Young and the Restless cast the freshest of fresh faces — Camryn Grimes, then just 6 years old — as Cassie Johnson, the little girl that heroine Sharon Newman gave up for adoption at birth.
Two Lives to Live: Young & Restless’ Camryn Grimes as Cassie and Mariah [PHOTOS]
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Reunited, and It Feels So Good
Image Credit: Monty Brinton/CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Though Sharon’s “pal,” Grace Turner, tracked down Cassie in hopes of putting the girl back in her mother’s arms, she got so attached to the tyke that she put off doing so for a year. Yes, a year!
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We Are Family
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI Eventually, Sharon gained custody of Cassie with Richie Rich husband Nicholas, who came to love the little girl as his own. Who wouldn’t, right? The freckled mopped was nine kinds of adorable.
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Say It Isn’t So
Image Credit: Brian Lowe/JPI In 2005, a tween Cassie attempted to do crush Daniel Romalotti a solid by driving the soused older boy home from a party. It didn’t go well. An ensuing accident left her with injuries from which she would never recover.
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Ghost Stories
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI Following Cassie’s death, she appeared over and over again to Sharon and Nick. At one point, she even visited her mom while she was carrying her sister, Faith — not that that prevented the baby-to-be from being kidnapped at birth by Nick’s half brother, Adam.
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Phantom Pain
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI In 2014, Sharon’s sometime father-in-law and occasional husband Victor Newman hired a Cassie lookalike named Mariah Copeland to gaslight her. But it turned out he’d done Sharon a big favor by reuniting her with the twin sister that she’d never realized that Cassie had.
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#awkward
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI As Nick softened toward Victor’s pawn — and apparently developed his own secret handshake with her — Mariah got the hots for her sorta stepdad. Sharon, as you might expect, did not take it well.
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If at First You Don’t Succeed…
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI While trying to figure out where she fit in Genoa City, Mariah struck up a relationship with Kevin Fisher. Unfortunately, they served up more comic relief than sexual tension — thankfully, that rabbit never died — and soon enough, she was moved on to…
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The Devon, You Say
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI While sparring with GC Buzz co-host Hilary Curtis, Mariah poured gasoline on that particular fire by dating her frenemy’s ex, Devon Hamilton. But to her surprise, she was more attracted to half brother Noah Newman’s girlfriend, Tessa Porter.
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For Keeps
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Though obstacles popped up left (Tessa was kind of a schemer) and right (Mariah cheated with a cute bartender), “Teriah” wholly committed to one another. Mind you, what that meant going forward, as with all things on Young & Restless, remained as uncertain as whether Tessa was going to be able to sink that eight-ball in the corner pocket.
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Labor Relations
Image Credit: © Howard Wise/jpistudios.com Proving that no good deed can ever go unpunished, Mariah’s decision to team up with Devon to give Abby and Chance Chancellor the baby that they so desperately wanted resulted in the surrogate mother being kidnapped by the mother-mother’s off-kilter ex, Stitch Rayburn, and delivering baby Dominic like… well, this. No epidural. No Enya. Nothin’.
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With This Ring…
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI In early 2022, Tessa and Mariah made Young & Restless history by becoming the first same-sex sweethearts to get engaged on the show. And everything about it was supremely lovely… except maybe for the fact that Noah suddenly was all hung up on Tessa again. #awkward
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The Groove Is In the Heart
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI What’s the rush? The flowers had scarcely wilted following Mariah and Tessa’s colorful 1970s-themed wedding when they began making plans to start a family.
