Cassie Newman is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network.

A year passed before Sharon learned Cassie was her daughter, regaining custody with her husband Nicholas Newman (Joshua Morrow), who adopted her.

In 2005, the producers decided to kill off Cassie by having her die from injuries sustained in a car accident, the episode aired on May 24, 2005.

[2] The character's death was felt in storyline for years to follow, leading to the dissolution of her parents' marriage and numerous events thereafter.

[19] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said that Grace wanted Cassie as a "pet" despite knowing Sharon was her biological mother.

[20] She also wanted to hang out with older kids at school, like Daniel Romalotti (Michael Graziadei) and Lily Winters (Christel Khalil).

[20] Cassie was described as a "good girl" who wanted to "fit in" but began cutting classes, giving her parents attitude and "a whole host of other angsty teenage pleasantries.

In 1997, Sharon and Nick's newborn son, Noah Newman (Rory Gibson) becomes ill and it is believed that he may die.

As a result, Sharon's best friend Grace Turner (Josie Davis, replaced mid-storyline by Jennifer Gareis) tracks down the baby Sharon gave up for adoption, Cassie, who had been adopted by a woman named Alice Johnson (Tamara Clatterbuck).

When Noah survives, Grace decides to keep Cassie, wanting to raise the six-year-old with her boyfriend Tony Viscardi (Nick Scotti).

She develops a crush on Daniel Romalotti (Michael Graziadei), who is two years older than her, and socializes with the older teens: Daniel, Lily Winters (Christel Khalil), Colleen Carlton (Lyndsy Fonseca), Devon Hamilton (Bryton James), and Sierra Hoffman (Asia Ray Smith).

At the party, she finds a drunken Daniel passed out, and decides to drive him home to the Newman ranch, where he lives with his mother Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford).

Cassie, who is under-age and without a license, crashes the car, injuring herself significantly, and Daniel to a lesser extent.

A severely injured Cassie remembers that she was driving, and staggers out of the hospital to find Daniel and tell him.

They also hoped that she could possibly be "brought back to life" like the character of Taylor Forrester (Hunter Tylo) on the show's sister-soap, The Bold and the Beautiful.