When Cassie Newman was only 14 years old, she wanted to be one of the cool kids and hang out with the older crowd. She also developed a large crush on Daniel Romalotti (Michael Graziadei) and offered to drive him home one night after he had been drinking. However, there were two problems: Cassie wasn't supposed to be out that night, and she didn't have a driver's license. She was perfectly sober when she got behind the wheel, but her inexperience led to a head-on car accident.
At first, her doctors thought she would survive, but as "The Young and the Restless'" Sharon and Nick talked to her in the hospital, she took a turn for the worse, and they were told they would have to say goodbye to her. In one of the most tear-jerking and heart-wrenching moments in soap opera history, Sharon and Nick sat with Cassie as she flatlined, weeping as they held her body.
