5 Y&R Characters Who Died and Made Shocking Comebacks
No one in the land of soap opera ever really passes away! When it comes to daytime, even characters who were shot point-blank, stabbed, murdered and even appeared as ghosts have a chance to return to the land of the living. Some of the most iconic characters on the Young and the Restless have come back from presumed death or faked their own deaths, numerous times. Today we’re taking a look at the handful of characters who have returned from the dead on Young and the Restless.
Victor Newman
The Newman family and the Y&R audience have mourned Victor Newman’s death multiple times. Be it a car accident or an explosion, Victor has proven time and again that nothing can destroy him.
He once faked his death in 1984, on the day of his wedding no less. His latest brush with death was in 2019, when he yet again let his whole family believe that he was dead. All because he wanted to punish Adam for messing with his medication!
Adam Newman
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Victor Jr. has had his own run ins with death and has returned from beyond the grave like his father.
We believed that Adam had kicked the bucket for the first time in a car explosion after a confrontation with Billy went wrong. But he only returned with a new face and resumed life with Connor and Chelsea. The second time, the cabin he was hiding in blew up but he turned up alive months later in Las Vegas with amnesia.
Diane Jenkins
Diane Jenkins is proof that no matter the circumstances of the death, a soap character can be brought back to life.
Nikki bashed Diane’s head in and her body was later found by the river. What’s more, there was a whole murder mystery that followed Diane’s death. But in 2022, it was revealed that Diane had faked her death with Deacon’s help.
Sheila Carter
Sheila Carter just won’t die and that’s what fans love about her. The soap-hopping villainess has been presumed dead on the Young and the Restless not once but twice. And both times, Sheila turned up alive on the Bold and the Beautiful to terrorize the Forresters.
The last time Sheila was in Genoa City, she held Phyllis and babies Summer and Fen hostage at her apartment. This was when Sheila had plastic surgery done to look like Phyllis. Lauren arrived at the scene and shot the real Sheila but years later, Sheila returned to Los Angeles. She might be considered dead on Y&R but she may very well turn up in Genoa City again after her current story on B&B wraps up.
Katherine Chancellor
Katherine Chancellor perhaps had the most comebacks from the death than any other Y&R character. The grand dame of Genoa City escaped death several times on the Young and the Restless.
In the late 70s, Kay is presumed dead in a sanitarium fire only for her to show up at her widower’s wedding and reclaim her fortune. Years later, after realizing her marriage is over, she jumps overboard while on a cruise and is thought to have drowned. But she’s saved and taken hostage by a man, whom she falls in love with. In 2013, the writers killed off Katherine off screen after Jeanne Cooper sadly passed away.