The Young and the Restless (Y&R) reveal that Vail Bloom will reprise her role as Heather Stevens during the week of December 16-20, but it won’t be because she’s returning from the grave. Instead, Stevens seems poised to make an appearance in Sharon Newman’s (Sharon Case) flashback as she undergoes another hypnosis session.

Sharon’s first round of hypnotherapy will take place in the December 16 episode, but Alan Laurent (Christopher Cousins) will only take her back to the night someone ran Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford) off the road.

After Sharon realizes she wasn’t responsible for Phyllis’ terrible ordeal, she’ll be even more determined to get to the bottom of her blackout at Heather and Daniel Romalotti Jr.’s (Michael Graziadei) apartment.

Of course, that’s when Sharon woke up to find Heather deceased on the floor, but she doesn’t have the full picture of what happened.

It may be traumatic for Sharon to remember how it all went down, but she’ll be committed to going through with it.

That’s why Alan will presumably hypnotize Sharon once again when he appears in the December 19 episode.

December 19 is when Vail Bloom is set to reprise her role as Heather Stevens, so it makes sense that we’ll see her in Sharon’s hypnosis-fueled flashback.

That Y&R episode is also when Sharon and Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow) are set to make a stunning discovery, so that could be related to the memories that Alan helps Sharon pull up.

Nick will fear Sharon isn’t safe in the aftermath, so she’s clearly going to recall something disturbing that points to someone sinister being at the apartment that night.

Sharon might recall hearing a woman’s voice and maybe even a phone discussion if Jordan (Colleen Zenk) contacted Ian Ward (Ray Wise) to let him know what she’d accomplished.

Since Ian has been worried Jordan might’ve left something at the scene of the crime, maybe she indeed did.

Could Sharon recall that as well and give the cops a hint they can work with?

Whatever the case, our predictions point to Sharon having a major breakthrough thanks to this upcoming hypnosis session with Alan.

Sharon may not be able to nail down who targeted Heather, but she’ll most likely know it wasn’t her!

The Young and the Restless spoilers say Vail Bloom’s appearance as Heather Stevens will play a big part in that, so stick with us for updates on Sharon’s jaw-dropping news.

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