Sheila Carter is alive but who did Steffy Forrester Kill that night?
Who is Sheila Carter? What happened to her on B&B and Y&R
When we talk about Sheila Carter, there is hardly any soap fans who wouldn’t recognize her. If you ask anyone who the greatest villain of Young and the Restless or Bold and the Beautiful is, Sheila’s name is bound to come up. Portrayed by Kimberlin Brown, she made her first appearance in Y&R back in 1990 and ever since, she’s been hopping between the two shows causing all sorts of troubles. But all her terror finally came to an end after Steffy Forrester killed her in B&B’s February 26th, 2024 episode.
Starting out on The Young & the Restless, Sheila made a big impression as a nurse who became dangerously obsessed with Dr. Scott Grainger. She pulled off some pretty wild stunts, including drugging Scott so she could have his baby and then stealing Lauren Fenmore’s child when her own baby died. After a fiery showdown with Lauren, Sheila was presumed dead, but she popped up in Los Angeles soon after, where she managed to worm her way into the Forrester family’s lives.
When Lauren found out that Sheila was still alive, she headed to L.A. to cause some trouble and split her up from Eric. But when Sheila asked for forgiveness, Eric actually gave it to her and they got married! Sheila even tried to get pregnant to strengthen her bond with Eric, but that plan fell apart when Eric revealed he’d had a vasectomy and wanted a divorce!
After that, she went to a shrink, Jay Garvin, and accidentally offed him during a fight. She also nearly drowned Lauren and locked James Warwick in her basement. And when he got free and blabbed her secrets, she flipped and held the Forresters and James hostage with a gun, ready to blast them. But then she had a change of heart, tried to end herself, and got tossed in the loony bin.
But of course, she didn’t stay there for long and became friends with Maggie Forrester, only to frame her for poisoning Stephanie. She even almost choked her to death! Sheila desperate for James’, became pregnant with his kid, Mary, and later handed her over to James and Maggie. But old habits die hard so, Sheila made Amber Moore as Mary’s nanny so she could visit her daughter in secret.
Sheila went full-on loco when she tried to snatch her daughter, Mary, and got James to fall head over heels for her. But when James and Stephanie got close, Sheila got super jelly and tried to drown Steph in the pool. After doing a stint in the slammer, Sheila went nuts again and escaped, only to end up shooting Stephanie, kidnapping Mary, and running away!
Fast forward a bit, and Sheila shows up with her teenage daughter, who’s going by Erica Lovejoy, and spills the beans about her past crimes. She even takes Eric and Taylor hostage, and when Brooke walks in, all hell breaks loose. Brooke gets shot, and Taylor’s not looking too good either! Sheila gets locked up again but makes a break with help from some prison bigwig named Sugar.
Next thing you know, Sheila’s snatching up Ridge and Brooke while they’re on their honeymoon, and Nick Marone gets roped in too! She claims to have had a secret baby with Massimo and vanishes with Sugar. But Sheila’s not done yet—she resurfaces in Genoa City to mess with Lauren again, and this time she’s got a sidekick named Tom. But Tom turns traitor, and Sheila’s off to get a makeover.
This time around, she’s morphed into Phyllis Summers and is up to no good. She grabs Phyllis, Summer, and Fen, and it’s up to Lauren to save the day. When Lauren finally pulls a piece on them, Sheila uses Summer as a human shield, and you know what that means—Phyllis catches a bullet, and Sheila’s apparently dead! But wait, there’s more…
Sheila pops up again, looking like her old self, but she’s playing nice now. Or is she? She wants Eric back, and she’s got Quinn in her sights. After a catfight with Quinn that leaves her injured, Sheila gets desperate and ropes in James for some shenanigans. She even has a portrait painted and tries to play matchmaker with a hot handyman! But Eric’s not buying it, and Sheila’s outta there!
Then she returns to LA again and is working in II Giardino. Then she suddenly showed up at Finn and Steffy’s wedding, dropping the bomb that she’s Finn’s mom. The Forresters wanted nothing to do with Sheila, but she wasn’t taking no for an answer. She tried everything, even faking a collapse, to get sympathy and worm her way back into Finn’s life. Partnering with Deacon didn’t help either, especially when she caused chaos at a New Year’s party that ended her marriage to Ridge.
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Things took a dark turn when Thomas found out what Sheila had done and Steffy overheard them arguing. Sheila shot Steffy and Finn, leaving them for dead. But when she went to the hospital, she clashed with Li, and overwhelmed with guilt, she decided to end it all by jumping off the roof. Taylor saved her, but not before nearly taking the plunge herself.
Just when Sheila thought she was in the clear, Steffy woke up with no memory of Finn or the shooting. But Sheila wasn’t going down without a fight, and she tried to overdose Steffy to keep her from remembering. When that didn’t work, she tried to run Li off the road, but ended up getting Finn back instead. She kept him drugged up, but her luck ran out when Li and Bill found them. Then with a little help from her old partner in crime, Mike Guthrie, she was on the run again and according to the police, she was eaten by a bear, which of course was a fake.
After returning from the dead again, Sheila managed to sweet-talk Deacon into letting her stay with him, all with the goal of worming her way back into Finn’s life. Deacon got caught up in her web of deceit, even as she ignored his warnings about pushing her luck. And wouldn’t you know it, she ended up running into Steffy, who had her doubts about Sheila’s supposed death! Even with a disguise, Steffy noticed something odd about Sheila and made a run for it, leading the cops on a wild chase. Sheila eventually showed up at Finn and Steffy’s place during a storm to plead her case, but they weren’t having any of it. Bill Spencer appeared out of nowhere to stop them from calling the cops!
Bill dropped a bombshell: he and Sheila were a couple now, and he threatened to turn in Taylor if they tried to put Sheila behind bars. Sheila went along with it, as Bill had promised to eventually get her released. But everyone else knew Bill was making a mistake, except for Sheila, who lapped up his declarations of love. But she still had a thing for Deacon, who wanted to take their relationship to the next level.
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Then Bill popped the question, and Sheila thought she’d finally found her knight in shining armor. But when she came clean about killing someone, Bill showed his true colors, revealing he was working with Ridge and the FBI to get her locked up for life! She tried to make a run for it but ended up back in cuffs. But she was still confident that she’d be a free woman someday.
And she was right! The judge threw out her case, and Sheila got another chance to bond with Finn. She even saved Kelly from drowning, which made Finn happy, but Steffy, not so much. Steffy decided it was best to keep Sheila away from Finn and the kids, which drove Sheila crazy. She was shocked to learn that Deacon had pulled some strings to get her released and even proposed to her! But then he got cold feet and called it off, leaving Sheila crushed.
That wasn’t the end of it, though. On February 2024, when Sheila bumped into Kelly at Il Giardino, Steffy went ballistic and punched her again. Furious, Sheila went to the cliff house to finish Steffy off once and for all, but the tables turned, and Sheila ended up getting stabbed instead, meeting her untimely end.