Sami Brady
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Samantha Gene "Sami" Hernandez (née
Brady; previously Reed, Walker, Roberts, and DiMera) is a fictional character
on the NBC
soap opera
Days of our Lives
. She was born onscreen on October 16, 1984, though was later SORASed
to October 16, 1977. Created by head writer Margaret DePriest
, Sami has been portrayed by Alison Sweeney
since January 22, 1993. Sweeney has briefly departed the role as Sami from February to June 1995, September to November 1997, and most recently February to April 1998.
Sami is the mother of Will Horton
, Allie Horton, Johnny DiMera, Sydney DiMera, and Grace Rafaela Brady (deceased). She is the wife of Rafe Hernandez and the ex-wife of Austin Reed, Brandon Walker
, Lucas Horton
, and EJ DiMera.
For her work in the role, Sweeney has won Daytime Emmy Awards for "Best Performance in a Daytime Drama — Young Actress" (1997), "Best Youth Actress in a Soap Opera" (1994) and "America's Favorite Villain" (2002). Sweeney has also won seven Soap Opera Digest Awards
, including three wins for "Outstanding Villainess" in 1996, 1998 and 1999.
. Since Sweeney stepped into the role in 1993, Sami has been showcased as the series' primary troublemaker and "the girl you loved to hate" through her lying and scheming. In recent years, Sweeney has established herself as a leading heroine, with the show centering on the popular and controversial relationships between Sami and her love interests Lucas, EJ and Rafe. Sweeney’s portrayal of "Salem
’s resident bad girl" has earned her various fan awards during her run, including five Soap Opera Digest
Awards and a Special Fan Award for "America's Favorite Villain" at the 2002 Daytime Emmy Award
ceremony. In 2005, the role was briefly recast with Dan Wells as the character of Sami's male alter ego "Stan" while Sweeney was on maternity leave.
Sweeney first appeared in the role on January 22, 1993.
are born to Marlena Evans
and Roman Brady
. Sami is named after her deceased aunt Samantha Evans and her mother's friend Eugene Bradford. Sami has a troubled childhood because of the Brady-DiMera feud and she and her brother are eventually sent to live with their grandparents in Colorado due to her mother's disappearance. Sami returns in January 1993 as a troubled teenager who is attached to her sister's boyfriend, Austin Reed. Sami discovers her mother is pregnant by John Black, after she witnessed them in a heated moment and decided to keep the affair a secret. When Lucas Roberts arrives in town, Sami uses him to make Carrie and Austin split up, but this fails. Sami also gets a job as a candy striper. Sami pays a model, Brandee, to make sure she kisses Austin so that Carrie walks in on it and Sami was over-joyed when they split up. The model influences her in such a way for Sami to believe that the best way to lose weight and become attractive to boys is by becoming bulimic. She later uses her bulimia as a bargaining chip against Marlena, who she has since told about witnessing her dalliance.
After Sami had switched the blood test of the baby, she hears that there are new tests ready to be done on her sister, Belle, and almost succeeds to put the baby on the black market but thanks to John's interference, the baby is safe and Belle doesn't receive a test. On the day of Belle's christening, Stefano DiMera shows Roman the pages of Sami's diary talking about the affair and Roman leaves Marlena. In January 1994, Sami begins a passionate, but rocky relationship with Lucas friend, Alan Harris, who Caroline, Marlena, & Roman strongly despise. Jamie tells Sami that she suspects something Alan isn't as innocent as he appears to be, and Jamie overhears Alan in a conversation about his feelings for Carrie, knowing how much Sami loves him, Jamie agrees not to tell Sami about what she heard. Later that year, Alan later rapes her after she refuses to remove her clothes so that he can photograph her and they can make love for the first time. Sami discovers she is neither pregnant or have been affected by AIDS and confides in Lucas. Carrie soon learns and sues Alan but because there was no proof, Sami is labelled a liar by the press.
To even with Carrie, she lures Austin away from her by pretending to be attacked by Alan. This act costs her the friendship with Lucas Roberts. Alan later appears that night with a gun intending to rape her again. Sami takes the gun away and shoots him in the groin and receives a lot of negative press. Lucas comforts her and the two make love. Carrie breaks up with Austin and Sami drugs Austin as a way of sleeping with him by impersonating Carrie. They later agree to keep this a secret. Marlena, possessed by the devil, tells Sami to seduce Austin, and this fails horribly leading Sami to leave town in early February 1995. In June 1995, She returns to find Carrie and Austin saying their vows and tells Carrie that she is carrying his child, leading to Carrie ending the wedding.
Years later, Lucas and Sami's hate for each other begins to ease and they fall in love with each other. They become engaged but Kate drugs Sami and puts her in Brandon's bed the night before Lucas and Sami are to marry so that Lucas dumps Sami. Sami later dresses up as a man named Stan and works for Tony DiMera
and does many evil deeds out of revenge. Sami manages to convince Lucas that Kate had set her up and that she was never unfaithful. Lucas reunites with Sami and the two become engaged again.
Lucas believes Sami has changed for the better but at their wedding, Kate reveals Sami's misdeeds as Stan and the wedding is called off. Austin Reed returns to town for the cancelled wedding and he and Sami become friends again, slowly reconnecting. A few months later, Carrie Brady returns to town having broken up with Mike Horton. Lucas and Austin, rivals, each desire to buy out Carrie's company. Lucas backs out upon finding that Carrie runs the entire company and Sami had manipulated him. Austin and Carrie fall back in love with each other and plan on a future together. When Carrie learns that Austins company has taken over Highstyle, she breaks up with him and finds comfort in Lucas. She is still in love with Austin but very hurt. Austin begins dating Sami on the rebound.
After Lucas and Carrie become engaged, Austin proposes to Sami. Their relationship is threatened when E.J. Wells, an English race car driver, moves into the apartment next to them. Sami grows to trust and befriend E.J. when she was being blackmailed. After Sami and Austin's wedding attempt ends in a disaster, E.J. and Sami kiss for the first time. Sami feared that Will was kidnapped by her blackmailer after being called missing from school. Will had in fact come home afterwards to avoid the aftermath of Sami's disastrous wedding. Carrie ends her relationship with Lucas and remarries Austin. They leave to start a life together in Switzerland.
Realizing that Will needs a stable home, Lucas and Will move in with Sami but this situation is short lived and Sami turns to E.J. and the two begin to date. Sami then discovers that not only is E.J. the son of Stefano DiMera
but he is also sleeping with Kate. Sami breaks things off with E.J.. Sami and Lucas rekindle their love in spite of Kate and the two decide to take a road trip. The car breaks down and they seek shelter in an abandoned cabin where they end up making love. The ceiling caved in and Lucas was trapped. Sami ran to get help and she found EJ and asked him to help her but he agreed to help only if she slept with him. Sami sleeps with E.J., calling it rape while he called it love. EJ then harassed Sami and continues to remind her of the night he rescued Lucas.
to kidnap Sami for her children's stem-cells, but he lets her go after hearing that there is another father. Nick Fallon reveals that Lucas is the father of both twins.
Overjoyed, Sami throws E.J. out of her house. In an attempt to steal a folio from Kate, Sami is locked in a steam room in which E.J. saves her. The twins are born on October 23, 2007 and Sami names the boy John Roman Roberts later John Roman DiMera called Johnny, after her father Roman Brady and stepfather John Black. Sami originally planned on naming her son Roman Thomas Roberts after her father and Lucas grandfather Thomas Horton, as he was "called" during her pregnancy and the little girl that was originally to be named Colleen Marlena Roberts, Lucas names Alice Caroline Horton called Ali, after Sami and Lucas's paternal grandmother's. After the birth, Johnny is revealed to be E.J.'s son and Ali is revealed to be Lucas's daughter. Later on, a vendetta occurs between the Bradys and the DiMeras, so Sami had to create peace by annulling her marriage with Lucas and marry E.J. as a way of protecting her family.
At their wedding, E.J. is shot at by Lucas, Marlena, and Kate but only Lucas is arrested for the attempted murder of E.J. and is sent to prison. Sami's son Will becomes angry with his parents about his family situation and decides to live with Austin and Carrie in Switzerland.
After being released from the hospital and revealed that he will not be paralyzed from the shot to his lower back, E.J. returns and takes custody of Johnny. EJ discovers that he is about to be deported, because of some visa problems. Sami and E.J., still married, move in together at the Dimera Mansion as a legal front to prove their homely love to the immigrations officer. One night, Lucas walks in on them making passionate love in bed together which leaves him devastated. Lucas who had been hoping to reunite with Sami declares that the judge has released him from prison and lifted his sentence to house arrest.
Unable to tolerate Lucas, E.J. moves out and discovers that he can help Nicole Walker with her legal problems regarding her unresolved divorce from Victor Kiriakis
. Because Sami left him broken-hearted, E.J. begins to romance Nicole. Soon afterwards, E.J. and Sami annul their marriage, even though EJ is still in love with Sami. Lucas decides he cannot forgive Sami for sleeping with E.J. and ends their relationship. Lucas begins to date Chloe Lane shortly afterwards. Sami finds herself jealous of both Lucas' relationship with Chloe and E.J.'s relationship with Nicole.
Sami later finds out that she is pregnant with EJ's child. She neglects to tell EJ about the baby when he begins a serious relationship with Nicole. Sami later
finds out that Nicole is also pregnant with EJ's child. After witnessing a murder by Stefano DiMera, she goes into the Witness Protection Program and gives birth to a daughter. However, Nicole miscarried her baby, so she illegally adopts another from a young teen, Mia McCormick, after faking her pregnancy. She switches Sami and Mia's babies. It is revealed that EJ is still madly in love with Sami, but he marries Nicole because of "Nicole's" baby, Sydney. Sami unknowingly raises Mia's baby, Grace, until Grace dies shortly after. She begins a serious relationship with Rafe Hernandez, the FBI agent who helped her in the Witness Protection Program. They move back to Salem together and tell everyone that they "adopted" Grace together. After Grace dies, Sami tells everyone that Grace was really EJ's and her daughter. Everyone finds out about Nicole's lies and about the baby switch. EJ and Sami are reunited with their
daughter, Sydney. Nicole goes to prison and EJ divorces her. EJ realizes that Sami will forever be grateful to Rafe for helping her find out that she is Sydney's mother. He kidnaps Sydney with the help of his sister-in-law, Anna DiMera. He brings her back to Sami, pretending to be a hero, to win Sami's affections.
He continues to romance Sami until she agrees to marry him (because she thinks that Rafe doesn't love her anymore). But, Rafe finds out that EJ kidnapped Sydney, and crashes EJ and Sami's wedding to expose the truth. In rage, Sami leaves EJ and continues her relationship with Rafe after he told her how much he truly loves her. After Stefano DiMera
's wife, Kate DiMera, tells Sami that EJ wants to kidnap her children and flee the country, she shoots EJ in the head. He lives, and continues to try to get custody of his children from Sami. However, EJ is still deeply in love with Sami, and is determined to win her heart. E.J has evidence left from Arianna Hernandez
, (who recently died) that Sami shot him, and took the kids away from her after her wedding ceremony to Rafe. When Johnny gets eye cancer EJ and Sami put aside their differences to help their son through this and are relieved when the cancer is gone. After letting Johnny and Sydney back into their mother's life, Stefano and Ej switch Rafe with an imposter (who had surgery to look like Rafe, but is a world class jerk), after he gets into car accident because Ej wants to be the only father his kids know.
Rafe is held in a cell in the DiMera basement, where eventually his memory is erased & he is sent to a solitary room in a mental hospital. Though he doesn't know who he is, he was able to keep a key on a chain, hidden from the DiMeras as well as the doctors. He thinks this key will help him to remember who he is. He escapes, falls into a river where he is assumed dead by the DiMeras. He wakes up in a Catholic Convent to find a nun caring for him. He remembers the name of another Convent & is taken there, where they discover the key is for an apartment just across the street. It's a key to the safe house where he & Sami fell in love. He & Sami fight (she assumes he's the jerk), when there's a knock at the door: it's the Rafe imposter. They fight, each trying to convince Sami he's the real Rafe & the imposter Rafe drops his gun. Sami of course picks it up & believes that the Rafe who doesn't have a memory is the real one. They tie up the imposter Rafe, soon real Rafe regains his memory & the two try to come up with a plan to take down EJ & Stefano.
After the truth about what EJ and Stefano did came out, Johnny wanted nothing to do with his dad and EJ decided to give Sami full custody of the children.
On September 26th, at the revealing of the new Horton Town Square, several faces of Sami's past arrived home for the special festivities. Marlena, John, Carrie and Austin were among those who returned to Salem. Sami was then shocked to not only learn that John was being arrested for embezzling, but was in fact arrested by Rafe. On October 5th, Sami receives a job as the junior executive at MadWorld Cosmetics.
Upon accepted her job, she re-connects with old friend Madison James, who also turns out to be her new boss.
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Brady; previously Reed, Walker, Roberts, and DiMera) is a fictional character
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on the NBC
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soap opera
Soap opera
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Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
. She was born onscreen on October 16, 1984, though was later SORASed
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
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to October 16, 1977. Created by head writer Margaret DePriest
Margaret DePriest
Margaret DePriest is an American daytime serial writer.She began her career as an actress both onstage and on television. Her acting credits include a contract role as the first Abby Cameron on The Edge of Night from 1965-1966....
, Sami has been portrayed by Alison Sweeney
Alison Sweeney
Alison Sweeney is an American dramatic actress and reality show host. Sweeney is best known for her portrayal of Samantha "Sami" Gene Brady on NBC's long running Days of our Lives, a role she has played under contract with the show since January 6, 1993...
since January 22, 1993. Sweeney has briefly departed the role as Sami from February to June 1995, September to November 1997, and most recently February to April 1998.
Sami is the mother of Will Horton
Will Horton
William "Will" Horton, III is a fictional character on the soap opera Days of our Lives. Will was born on screen November 16, 1995. Created by head writer James E. Reilly, the role is originated by actors Shawn and Taylor Carpenter. Darian Weiss briefly steps into the role from 2002-2003...
, Allie Horton, Johnny DiMera, Sydney DiMera, and Grace Rafaela Brady (deceased). She is the wife of Rafe Hernandez and the ex-wife of Austin Reed, Brandon Walker
Brandon Walker
Brandon Walker is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives. He was played by Matt Cedeño from 1999 to 2003 and again in 2004 and 2005. He is Nicole Walker's half-brother. His mother Fay Walker had an affair with Commander Abe Carver while she was married to Paul Mendez...
, Lucas Horton
Lucas Horton
Lucas Desmond Horton is a fictional character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives. He was portrayed by Bryan Dattilo from 1992-2001, and from 2002-2010.-Storylines:...
, and EJ DiMera.
For her work in the role, Sweeney has won Daytime Emmy Awards for "Best Performance in a Daytime Drama — Young Actress" (1997), "Best Youth Actress in a Soap Opera" (1994) and "America's Favorite Villain" (2002). Sweeney has also won seven Soap Opera Digest Awards
Soap Opera Digest Awards
The Soap Opera Digest Awards were an awards show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest. The awards were founded in 1984 to replace the less-lavish Soapy Award; those awards shows had run since 1977. The Soap Opera Digest Awards are meant to promote excellence in the soap opera...
, including three wins for "Outstanding Villainess" in 1996, 1998 and 1999.
Casting and awards
The character was previously portrayed by seven child actressesChild actor
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. Since Sweeney stepped into the role in 1993, Sami has been showcased as the series' primary troublemaker and "the girl you loved to hate" through her lying and scheming. In recent years, Sweeney has established herself as a leading heroine, with the show centering on the popular and controversial relationships between Sami and her love interests Lucas, EJ and Rafe. Sweeney’s portrayal of "Salem
Salem (Days of our Lives)
The town of Salem is the setting for the U.S. soap opera Days of our Lives. It is located in the Midwestern United States, though the state is never mentioned. It was built and named in 1802, since Salem celebrated its 200-year birthday in 2002. Originally set in New England, the vague setting was...
’s resident bad girl" has earned her various fan awards during her run, including five Soap Opera Digest
Soap Opera Digest
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Awards and a Special Fan Award for "America's Favorite Villain" at the 2002 Daytime Emmy Award
Daytime Emmy Award
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ceremony. In 2005, the role was briefly recast with Dan Wells as the character of Sami's male alter ego "Stan" while Sweeney was on maternity leave.
Sweeney first appeared in the role on January 22, 1993.
Early life
Sami and Eric BradyEric Brady
Eric Roman Brady is a fictional character on the television drama Days of our Lives. As an adult, the role of Eric was played by Jensen Ackles from early 1997 to July 31, 2000 and Ritz Gregory from April 1994 to early 1997 and again from August 2000 to January 11, 2002...
are born to Marlena Evans
Marlena Evans
Dr. Marlena Evans Black is a long-running fictional character on the NBC daytime drama, Days of our Lives, a long running serial about working life in the fictional town of Salem. She was played by actress Deidre Hall since 1976, with a few minor breaks in between from 1987 to March 1991 and...
and Roman Brady
Roman Brady
Roman Augustus Brady is a fictional character on the television drama Days of our Lives. Roman was played by Wayne Northrop from 1981 to 1984 and 1991 to 1994, and has been played by Josh Taylor since 1997, with a brief hiatus in early 2004, when he was a victim of the show's now-infamous serial...
. Sami is named after her deceased aunt Samantha Evans and her mother's friend Eugene Bradford. Sami has a troubled childhood because of the Brady-DiMera feud and she and her brother are eventually sent to live with their grandparents in Colorado due to her mother's disappearance. Sami returns in January 1993 as a troubled teenager who is attached to her sister's boyfriend, Austin Reed. Sami discovers her mother is pregnant by John Black, after she witnessed them in a heated moment and decided to keep the affair a secret. When Lucas Roberts arrives in town, Sami uses him to make Carrie and Austin split up, but this fails. Sami also gets a job as a candy striper. Sami pays a model, Brandee, to make sure she kisses Austin so that Carrie walks in on it and Sami was over-joyed when they split up. The model influences her in such a way for Sami to believe that the best way to lose weight and become attractive to boys is by becoming bulimic. She later uses her bulimia as a bargaining chip against Marlena, who she has since told about witnessing her dalliance.
After Sami had switched the blood test of the baby, she hears that there are new tests ready to be done on her sister, Belle, and almost succeeds to put the baby on the black market but thanks to John's interference, the baby is safe and Belle doesn't receive a test. On the day of Belle's christening, Stefano DiMera shows Roman the pages of Sami's diary talking about the affair and Roman leaves Marlena. In January 1994, Sami begins a passionate, but rocky relationship with Lucas friend, Alan Harris, who Caroline, Marlena, & Roman strongly despise. Jamie tells Sami that she suspects something Alan isn't as innocent as he appears to be, and Jamie overhears Alan in a conversation about his feelings for Carrie, knowing how much Sami loves him, Jamie agrees not to tell Sami about what she heard. Later that year, Alan later rapes her after she refuses to remove her clothes so that he can photograph her and they can make love for the first time. Sami discovers she is neither pregnant or have been affected by AIDS and confides in Lucas. Carrie soon learns and sues Alan but because there was no proof, Sami is labelled a liar by the press.
To even with Carrie, she lures Austin away from her by pretending to be attacked by Alan. This act costs her the friendship with Lucas Roberts. Alan later appears that night with a gun intending to rape her again. Sami takes the gun away and shoots him in the groin and receives a lot of negative press. Lucas comforts her and the two make love. Carrie breaks up with Austin and Sami drugs Austin as a way of sleeping with him by impersonating Carrie. They later agree to keep this a secret. Marlena, possessed by the devil, tells Sami to seduce Austin, and this fails horribly leading Sami to leave town in early February 1995. In June 1995, She returns to find Carrie and Austin saying their vows and tells Carrie that she is carrying his child, leading to Carrie ending the wedding.
Relationship woes
Sami gives birth to her son, William Robert Reed on November 16, 1995. Will is actually the son of Lucas, who had been conceived on their one night stand but Sami passes Will off as the son of Austin. Austin marries Sami but leaves her at the alter when Carrie reveals the truth about Will's paternity in September 1997. Will is then renamed William Reed Roberts. Austin finally marries Carrie and Sami leaves Salem. Weeks later Sami returns and decides to move on and becomes engaged to Franco Kelly. Franco was only using Sami to obtain a green card. He ends up murdered on their wedding day. Sami faints upon discovering him dead and Kate Roberts frames her for the murder. At the murder trial, Sami is convicted and sentenced to death. Although she was about to be killed by a lethal injection her innocence was declared. After discovering that Lucas killed Franco and Kate assisted in framing Sami, Sami falls in love with Brandon Walker, who helps her regain full custody of Will. Sami becomes engaged to and marries Brandon but he leaves her shortly after their wedding because of all her scheming and lying.Years later, Lucas and Sami's hate for each other begins to ease and they fall in love with each other. They become engaged but Kate drugs Sami and puts her in Brandon's bed the night before Lucas and Sami are to marry so that Lucas dumps Sami. Sami later dresses up as a man named Stan and works for Tony DiMera
Tony DiMera
Count Antony "Tony" DiMera is a fictional character from the American soap opera Days of our Lives, played by actor Thaao Penghlis on and off from 1981 until 2009. One of the character's main storylines includes being impersonated by fellow character André DiMera, at various points in the...
and does many evil deeds out of revenge. Sami manages to convince Lucas that Kate had set her up and that she was never unfaithful. Lucas reunites with Sami and the two become engaged again.
Lucas believes Sami has changed for the better but at their wedding, Kate reveals Sami's misdeeds as Stan and the wedding is called off. Austin Reed returns to town for the cancelled wedding and he and Sami become friends again, slowly reconnecting. A few months later, Carrie Brady returns to town having broken up with Mike Horton. Lucas and Austin, rivals, each desire to buy out Carrie's company. Lucas backs out upon finding that Carrie runs the entire company and Sami had manipulated him. Austin and Carrie fall back in love with each other and plan on a future together. When Carrie learns that Austins company has taken over Highstyle, she breaks up with him and finds comfort in Lucas. She is still in love with Austin but very hurt. Austin begins dating Sami on the rebound.
After Lucas and Carrie become engaged, Austin proposes to Sami. Their relationship is threatened when E.J. Wells, an English race car driver, moves into the apartment next to them. Sami grows to trust and befriend E.J. when she was being blackmailed. After Sami and Austin's wedding attempt ends in a disaster, E.J. and Sami kiss for the first time. Sami feared that Will was kidnapped by her blackmailer after being called missing from school. Will had in fact come home afterwards to avoid the aftermath of Sami's disastrous wedding. Carrie ends her relationship with Lucas and remarries Austin. They leave to start a life together in Switzerland.
Realizing that Will needs a stable home, Lucas and Will move in with Sami but this situation is short lived and Sami turns to E.J. and the two begin to date. Sami then discovers that not only is E.J. the son of Stefano DiMera
Stefano DiMera
Stefano DiMera is a fictional character, a villain on the American soap opera Days of our Lives. Created by head writer Pat Falken Smith, he is portrayed by Joseph Mascolo...
but he is also sleeping with Kate. Sami breaks things off with E.J.. Sami and Lucas rekindle their love in spite of Kate and the two decide to take a road trip. The car breaks down and they seek shelter in an abandoned cabin where they end up making love. The ceiling caved in and Lucas was trapped. Sami ran to get help and she found EJ and asked him to help her but he agreed to help only if she slept with him. Sami sleeps with E.J., calling it rape while he called it love. EJ then harassed Sami and continues to remind her of the night he rescued Lucas.
Marriages to Lucas, EJ and Rafe
Sami tells Lucas about her pregnancy but fails to tell him the possibility that EJ is the father. Lucas and Sami wed months later on May 9, 2007. On the night of their wedding, Sami confesses about the rape. Lucas forgives her and the two consummate their marriage. Sami later discovers that their future home belongs to the DiMeras. Sami discovers that she is having twins and Kate starts a commotion saying that E.J. is the father. This causes Stefano DiMeraStefano DiMera
Stefano DiMera is a fictional character, a villain on the American soap opera Days of our Lives. Created by head writer Pat Falken Smith, he is portrayed by Joseph Mascolo...
to kidnap Sami for her children's stem-cells, but he lets her go after hearing that there is another father. Nick Fallon reveals that Lucas is the father of both twins.
Overjoyed, Sami throws E.J. out of her house. In an attempt to steal a folio from Kate, Sami is locked in a steam room in which E.J. saves her. The twins are born on October 23, 2007 and Sami names the boy John Roman Roberts later John Roman DiMera called Johnny, after her father Roman Brady and stepfather John Black. Sami originally planned on naming her son Roman Thomas Roberts after her father and Lucas grandfather Thomas Horton, as he was "called" during her pregnancy and the little girl that was originally to be named Colleen Marlena Roberts, Lucas names Alice Caroline Horton called Ali, after Sami and Lucas's paternal grandmother's. After the birth, Johnny is revealed to be E.J.'s son and Ali is revealed to be Lucas's daughter. Later on, a vendetta occurs between the Bradys and the DiMeras, so Sami had to create peace by annulling her marriage with Lucas and marry E.J. as a way of protecting her family.
At their wedding, E.J. is shot at by Lucas, Marlena, and Kate but only Lucas is arrested for the attempted murder of E.J. and is sent to prison. Sami's son Will becomes angry with his parents about his family situation and decides to live with Austin and Carrie in Switzerland.
After being released from the hospital and revealed that he will not be paralyzed from the shot to his lower back, E.J. returns and takes custody of Johnny. EJ discovers that he is about to be deported, because of some visa problems. Sami and E.J., still married, move in together at the Dimera Mansion as a legal front to prove their homely love to the immigrations officer. One night, Lucas walks in on them making passionate love in bed together which leaves him devastated. Lucas who had been hoping to reunite with Sami declares that the judge has released him from prison and lifted his sentence to house arrest.
Unable to tolerate Lucas, E.J. moves out and discovers that he can help Nicole Walker with her legal problems regarding her unresolved divorce from Victor Kiriakis
Victor Kiriakis
Victor Kiriakis I is a fictional character on NBC's Days of our Lives. The role has been portrayed by John Aniston since 1985. His time on the show has been 1985 to 1997, 1998 to present with a brief storyline driven absence in 2004 when his character was "killed off" but found alive on the island...
. Because Sami left him broken-hearted, E.J. begins to romance Nicole. Soon afterwards, E.J. and Sami annul their marriage, even though EJ is still in love with Sami. Lucas decides he cannot forgive Sami for sleeping with E.J. and ends their relationship. Lucas begins to date Chloe Lane shortly afterwards. Sami finds herself jealous of both Lucas' relationship with Chloe and E.J.'s relationship with Nicole.
Sami later finds out that she is pregnant with EJ's child. She neglects to tell EJ about the baby when he begins a serious relationship with Nicole. Sami later
finds out that Nicole is also pregnant with EJ's child. After witnessing a murder by Stefano DiMera, she goes into the Witness Protection Program and gives birth to a daughter. However, Nicole miscarried her baby, so she illegally adopts another from a young teen, Mia McCormick, after faking her pregnancy. She switches Sami and Mia's babies. It is revealed that EJ is still madly in love with Sami, but he marries Nicole because of "Nicole's" baby, Sydney. Sami unknowingly raises Mia's baby, Grace, until Grace dies shortly after. She begins a serious relationship with Rafe Hernandez, the FBI agent who helped her in the Witness Protection Program. They move back to Salem together and tell everyone that they "adopted" Grace together. After Grace dies, Sami tells everyone that Grace was really EJ's and her daughter. Everyone finds out about Nicole's lies and about the baby switch. EJ and Sami are reunited with their
daughter, Sydney. Nicole goes to prison and EJ divorces her. EJ realizes that Sami will forever be grateful to Rafe for helping her find out that she is Sydney's mother. He kidnaps Sydney with the help of his sister-in-law, Anna DiMera. He brings her back to Sami, pretending to be a hero, to win Sami's affections.
He continues to romance Sami until she agrees to marry him (because she thinks that Rafe doesn't love her anymore). But, Rafe finds out that EJ kidnapped Sydney, and crashes EJ and Sami's wedding to expose the truth. In rage, Sami leaves EJ and continues her relationship with Rafe after he told her how much he truly loves her. After Stefano DiMera
Stefano DiMera
Stefano DiMera is a fictional character, a villain on the American soap opera Days of our Lives. Created by head writer Pat Falken Smith, he is portrayed by Joseph Mascolo...
's wife, Kate DiMera, tells Sami that EJ wants to kidnap her children and flee the country, she shoots EJ in the head. He lives, and continues to try to get custody of his children from Sami. However, EJ is still deeply in love with Sami, and is determined to win her heart. E.J has evidence left from Arianna Hernandez
Arianna Hernandez
Arianna Marie Hernandez is a fictional character from the American NBC soap opera Days of our Lives, played by Lindsay Hartley. Arianna made her first on-screen appearance on 15 April 2009. In July 2009, it was announced that original actress Felisha Terrell had been axed from the soap and would be...
, (who recently died) that Sami shot him, and took the kids away from her after her wedding ceremony to Rafe. When Johnny gets eye cancer EJ and Sami put aside their differences to help their son through this and are relieved when the cancer is gone. After letting Johnny and Sydney back into their mother's life, Stefano and Ej switch Rafe with an imposter (who had surgery to look like Rafe, but is a world class jerk), after he gets into car accident because Ej wants to be the only father his kids know.
Rafe is held in a cell in the DiMera basement, where eventually his memory is erased & he is sent to a solitary room in a mental hospital. Though he doesn't know who he is, he was able to keep a key on a chain, hidden from the DiMeras as well as the doctors. He thinks this key will help him to remember who he is. He escapes, falls into a river where he is assumed dead by the DiMeras. He wakes up in a Catholic Convent to find a nun caring for him. He remembers the name of another Convent & is taken there, where they discover the key is for an apartment just across the street. It's a key to the safe house where he & Sami fell in love. He & Sami fight (she assumes he's the jerk), when there's a knock at the door: it's the Rafe imposter. They fight, each trying to convince Sami he's the real Rafe & the imposter Rafe drops his gun. Sami of course picks it up & believes that the Rafe who doesn't have a memory is the real one. They tie up the imposter Rafe, soon real Rafe regains his memory & the two try to come up with a plan to take down EJ & Stefano.
After the truth about what EJ and Stefano did came out, Johnny wanted nothing to do with his dad and EJ decided to give Sami full custody of the children.
Cancer Scare, and Return to the Work Place
In the latter part of August, Sami, under the assumption that she was pregnant, went to the hospital for blood work to confirm her beliefs. However, after the tests, Lexi Carver announced that she was not pregnant, but may, in fact, have cancer. After a biopsy, it is declared that Sami was free of cancer, and was completely healthy.On September 26th, at the revealing of the new Horton Town Square, several faces of Sami's past arrived home for the special festivities. Marlena, John, Carrie and Austin were among those who returned to Salem. Sami was then shocked to not only learn that John was being arrested for embezzling, but was in fact arrested by Rafe. On October 5th, Sami receives a job as the junior executive at MadWorld Cosmetics.
Upon accepted her job, she re-connects with old friend Madison James, who also turns out to be her new boss.
See also
- Brady family
- Lucas and SamiLucas Roberts and Sami BradyLucas Desmond Horton and Samantha Gene "Sami" Brady are a fictional couple on the American soap opera Days of our Lives they are known as LUMI. Lucas is played by Bryan Dattilo and Sami is played by Alison Sweeney. They are often referred by the portmanteau "Lumi" on internet message boards...
- EJ and SamiEJ Wells and Samantha BradyElvis Aron "EJ" DiMera and Samantha Gene "Sami" Brady are fictional characters and a pairing from the American soap opera Days of our Lives. Since 1993, the role of Sami Brady has been portrayed by actress Alison Sweeney...
- SupercoupleSupercoupleA supercouple or super couple is a popular or financially wealthy pairing that intrigues and fascinates the public in an intense or even obsessive fashion...