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Paul’s kids just can not catch a break on The Young and the Restless! First, Ricky was shot and killed (unintentionally) by his own dad when he went off the homicidal deep end and now, it looks like Heather’s dead, too, courtesy of Sharon’s psychotic break! We aren’t totally surprised. We saw this coming the second Heather and Sharon ran into each other. But we thought maybe it would just result in a coma and amnesia — not murder!

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But today’s episode was all about Sharon’s confrontation with Heather after being caught, and her apparent death at Sharon’s hands. You can catch up on what happened in our recap here.

The long and the short of it? After arguing, Sharon blacked out, and when she came to, Heather was dead. Cameron helped her clean up, dispose of the body and come to terms with what she’d done. It doesn’t look good.

There’s still hope, of course. Sharon could have become so delusional that all of this happened in her head and Heather is still alive and well… But this would be one heck of an intricate delusion.

Vail Bloom’s been back in the role as Heather for a little under two years now, having rejoined the show early in 2023, 13 years after her first run playing Paul’s daughter. And so far, there’s been no word on whether or not Bloom is done at Young & Restless. Even if Heather is truly dead, that doesn’t mean she’s gone, of course. With someone as prone to hallucinations as Sharon is right now, we could soon see her joining Cameron in tormenting her killer.

There’s still a whole lot of unanswered questions, so hopefully, we’ll find out what truly happened sooner, rather than later. But for now, RIP, Heather!