Young & Restless Star Teases Aftershocks From That ‘Chadam’ One-Night Stand: ‘This Isn’t Just Some Random Hook-Up’

Not all the fireworks on the Fourth of July were in the sky. Some of them went off between the sheets as Young & Restless exes Adam and Chelsea comforted one another over their Connor situation in a Baltimore hotel room. A single night was all that it took to leave the former couple fretting not only over their son anymore but also over the fact that they had cheated on significant others Sally and Billy.

“This isn’t an Adam/Chelsea reunion,” Melissa Claire Egan hastens to tell Soap Opera Digest. Though “they’ve always had a very deep connection… [this incident] doesn’t reflect their feelings for their partners.”

Nonetheless, the impromptu tryst carries more weight than a one-night stand with a stranger; after all that “Chadam” has been through over the years, it would have to, right? “This isn’t just some random hook-up,” Egan says. In its wake, “the fans are going to be on a very bumpy, fun, exciting ride to see.”

Sally and Billy might agree on the bumpy part but not so much the fun and exciting parts! The questions going forward, Egan says, are “Do they find out? How do they find out?” and how do Chelsea and Adam cope with “the guilt and all the layers that come with this mistake.” If they cope with it the way that they did their heartache over Connor, that one-nighter might just extend to two, three, who knows how many nights!