Adam Wilson (The Young and The Restless) - Storylines

Storylines

Hope gives birth to Victor Adam Newman, Jr. in 1995, and soon after she and Victor divorce, prompting Hope to move back to Kansas with Victor Jr. He was raised believing Cliff Wilson was his father until June 2002, when Victor made a trip to Kansas to visit with Victor Jr. Six years later in February 2008, Hope announces to Victor that she is dying from pancreatic cancer, and reveals to their son, known as "Vic", that Victor is his father. A Harvard Business School graduate, Vic is resentful of Victor for abandoning his own child. He later agrees to move to Genoa City with Victor and work at his company, Newman Enterprises, but still refuses to build a relationship with his father. Vic then begins using the name Adam Newman, and is resented by Victor’s other children Victoria and Nicholas Newman (Amelia Heinle and Joshua Morrow) for splitting up their parents during Victor and Hope’s marriage. Victor is urged by his girlfriend Sabrina Costelana (Raya Meddine) to mend his relationships with his children. Adam then begins dating Heather Stevens (Vail Bloom), and Victor’s dislike of her causes their romance to become secretive. When Victor is presumed dead while in Mexico searching for the men responsible for Sabrina’s death, Adam takes over at Newman Enterprises, firing his siblings and instating Victor’s nemesis Brad Carlton (Don Diamont). His family is powerless in stopping him after they discover Victor left most of his possessions to Adam in his will. He also plots to frame Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) for murder, but when Victor surfaces alive, Jack reversed the plot and Adam was framed for murder, resulting in his imprisonment. Heather then begins to notice Adam’s failing eyesight, as there was a possibility for him to inherit his mother’s blindness. After being brutally beaten by an inmate, Victor has the charges dropped.

In 2009, Adam later becomes friends with Ashley Abbott (Eileen Davidson), who is continuously hearing a baby’s cry and things supposedly left for her by Sabrina. The housekeeper Estella Munoz (Anne Betancourt) is blamed and arrested, while in reality Adam was the one secretly gaslighting Ashley. He later dresses up as the late Sabrina and pushes Ashley down a staircase, causing her to miscarry her child with Victor. Adam then blackmailed her doctor, Charles Taylor, into telling her that her child was still alive. Rafe Torres (Yani Gellman) is appointed to investigate Adam, who in turn seduces him to direct his attention away from his criminal activity. Heather discovers their affair and ends her relationship with Adam. Ashley was later admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where a pregnant Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) was also staying. Sharon goes into labor and Adam steals her daughter, Faith, and passes her off as Ashley’s child; Sharon believed her child had died, and a guilt ridden Adam pursues a relationship with Sharon and they elope, but she leaves him when she remembers elements that contradict her losing her child. A note from a dying Charles Taylor is found, saying that Ashley had miscarried and Faith is really Sharon and Nicholas’ daughter. Adam is jailed again, but got the insane Patty Williams (Stacy Haiduk) to help him break free to attend a masquerade ball, where he begs Sharon for forgiveness to no avail. An explosion at the ball occurs and a burned corpse is positively identified as Adam and Nicholas is arrested for his murder. In reality, the corpse was that of Richard Hightower, a man whom Adam had given a bone marrow transplant and possessed his DNA. He later meets up with Skye Lockhart (Laura Stone) and they plot a con together, but Adam still dreams of Sharon.

Adam and Skye, now married, return to Genoa City to testify on Nicholas’ behalf, but he fakes a mental breakdown and is later sent to the psychiatric hospital, where Patty is residing. She later recollects the night of Hightower’s death to the district attorney, but Adam schemes against her mind and leads her out of the hospital and gave her a new identity, telling her never to return. Adam and Sharon reunite in New Orleans, just before he faces charges for murdering Skye. Sharon travels to Hawaii to prove Skye is alive, but she falls to her death in a volcano and Sharon is arrested for her murder. Adam later helps her escape from prison and flee the state, and she is presumed dead when her car is found burned. In reality, Sharon was carjacked and the carjacker was the one who died; a devastated Adam still looks for proof that Sharon did not kill Skye and eventually finds it, but when he discovers Sharon had been living with a veterinarian in New Mexico, he disposes of the evidence into a river in July 2011. Adam then plots with Diane Jenkins (Maura West) to make Victor suffer, to the point of framing him for Diane’s murder. However, when she actually turned up murdered, a six-month investigation ensued with Adam as an initial suspect. Adam again takes over at Newman Enterprises when Victor falsely confessed to the murder, and later reunites with Sharon, but she leaves him again when his scheme against Patty is revealed. He later befriends Chelsea Lawson (Melissa Claire Egan) and they begin dating in April 2012, later eloping to Kansas where Sharon attempts to stop the wedding. Chelsea becomes pregnant but miscarries in a car accident with Summer Newman (Hunter King). Adam takes in a mentally unstable Sharon and gets her the help she needs, much to Chelsea’s disapproval. After he is reinstated as chief executive officer at Newman Enterprises and shares a kiss with Sharon, he promises Chelsea they can move to Paris, but when he can’t leave the company, they decide to divorce. Adam is shot at Victor's wedding in an attempt to save his father in March 2013; as a result, they mend their relationship. Chelsea later discovers she is pregnant again, but tells Adam the child was fathered by Dylan McAvoy (Steve Burton).