Days of Our Lives teases Johnny DiMera (Carson Boatman) and Chanel Dupree DiMera (Raven Bowens) could be entering another dark season in their lives soon. Johnny doesn’t know it, but he has been marked for death. Meanwhile, Chanel is pregnant and there’s another health crisis looming that doesn’t look like it has anything to do with the pregnancy.
I’m just wondering if these two storylines are going to be what sends Johnny and Chanel off of Days of Our Lives once and for all, possibly in body bags.
Kristen Plots To Murder Johnny
So, right now we know that Kristen DiMera (Stacy Haiduk) is plotting with Sophia Choi (Madelyn Kientz) to destroy EJ DiMera (Dan Feuerriegel) and their plan is absolutely diabolical. Kristen said they are going to murder Johnny. That’s right. Kristen wants Sophia to kill her nephew Johnny to get back at her brother EJ. And that’s because Kristen blames EJ for Rachel shooting him.
Because EJ stashed her grandma Rachel Blake away. And in Kristen’s twisted mind, Rachel’s locked up in Bayview because of EJ. She has no self-awareness of the terrible influence that she is on her daughter. She’s to blame, I think, for all of this. But Kristen thinks because she lost her daughter Rachel, who’s stuck back in Bayview now, that EJ needs to lose his son Johnny.
Days of Our Lives: Sophia and Kristen a Dream Team?
But Kristen wants to leave EJ heartbroken forever. And Kristen is counting on how much Sophia hates Johnny because of the whole adoption mess. So for that reason, Sophia is the perfect partner in crime for crazy Kristen. Lucky for her, unhinged Sophia agreed with the caveat that she also takes down Holly Jonas because Sophia won’t ever stop hating her. And she insisted Kristen provide extra resources for the revenge on Holly plan.
And I knew that Kristen hated EJ, but I mean, wow, right? Having Sophia, who is the biological mother of Johnny’s adopted son, kill him to get vengeance is so freaking twisted. That’s a new low, even for Kristen, who has drugged and raped a priest. I mean, that’s on the list of very, very bad things that Kristen has done in her life. The attack on Eric was terrible.
And I’m sure that if EJ knew about this plot that Kristen is cooking up, he would much rather Kristen come after him and leave Johnny alone. Now EJ knows Kristen hates him, but I don’t think it’s on his bingo card that she would kill his only son. But Kristen’s decided the sins of the father rest on the son and thinks Johnny should pay the price for EJ’s actions. And Sophia may have it in her mind that if Johnny’s dead, somehow Trey might be taken away from Chanel. Or Sophia might plan to snatch Trey and run after killing Johnny because that girl’s crazy. And Sophia is a very willing participant in Kristen’s awful plan.
How Will Sophia Try to Kill Johnny?
So, I’m curious as to the method of their madness and how Sophia and Kristen are going to try and kill Johnny. So Kristen and Sophia may set up Johnny’s death to look like a horrific, say, car accident. Maybe Sophia cuts Johnny’s brake line so he runs off the road and crashes. Or Kristen may get an undetectable poison from Dr. Rolf that Sophia can slip into Johnny’s drink at the pub.
Sophia might decide to get really hands-on and vicious and, you know, violently stab Johnny when he’s home alone or out on the streets of Salem one night, act like it’s a mugging, you know. Or because Rachel was sent back to Bayview for accidentally shooting EJ, maybe Kristen will have Sophia shoot Johnny. Kristen may want to leave some sort of clue for EJ that Johnny’s death is his fault.
And of course, Kristen wants Sophia to do the deed, not because Kristen’s not capable, but I think this is about her having an airtight alibi for the time of Johnny’s death. She may even make sure that she is with EJ when the murder happens. That way he’ll think, “Oh, Kristen was with me.” But EJ’s not dumb.
Chanel’s Health Crisis
So now, let’s talk about Chanel. Johnny and Chanel are already worried because Sophia’s out of Bayview and she’s at her mom Amy Choi’s house, so she’s local. Johnny and Chanel know they have to be on high alert. We’ve been hearing rumors for a while also that there may be another murder mystery in Salem. Now, that could be Johnny’s death or his attempted murder. And then Chanel is looking like there’s a major health crisis brewing.
She was already at risk of cancer before she turned up pregnant, but then Sarah Horton (Linsey Godfrey) assured Chanel everything was fine. And then this week, when Johnny and Chanel were getting intimate, Johnny felt a lump on one of Chanel’s breasts. And at first, she was kind of annoyed and frustrated because Johnny worries a lot about her in this pregnancy. Chanel just wants Johnny to enjoy the pregnancy with her and be excited. And he insists he is, but he also knows Chanel’s got serious health issues that cannot be ignored.
Days of Our Lives: Pregnancy Problems?
And once she feels the lump Johnny felt, she’s going to worry. I mean, already we know that Chanel is at high risk for cancer. And she told Johnny that she’ll talk to her OB about the breast lump. And of course, breast tissue does change during pregnancy, and your breasts actually get really lumpy, especially when you start the milk making.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. And Chanel and Johnny, of course, both hope the lump is nothing to freak out about. But if there is something worrisome about it, Chanel being pregnant can make treating an illness very tricky. I think Sarah would be able to get a biopsy and they might even be able to do a lumpectomy. But anything else like radiation or chemotherapy cannot be done while a woman is pregnant.
And Johnny might freak out and want Chanel to terminate the pregnancy so that she can get cancer treatment if the lump is a serious health risk. Remember, Johnny was kind of already thinking about how high risk it was when she first turned up pregnant. So, that’s going to come right back up in his mind. But even if Johnny begged her to do that, I don’t think Chanel would. I think if she has cancer that she would just proceed with the pregnancy to full term, which would allow it to spread to the point that it would probably be life-threatening.
Are Johnny and Chanel Being Written Out?
Now, I just want to say I’m not trying to be all doom and gloom about Johnny and Chanel, but there is good reason to think things could take a really dark turn for them. Because when Carson Boatman and Raven Bowens, who play Johnny and Chanel, came back to Days of Our Lives in January after their Christmas break, both of them found out they had been fired from their roles as Johnny and Chanel.
And another couple of actors were also axed, that was Ashley Puzemis and Leo Howard who play Holly and Tate. They were also let go. And at the time of their firing, Days was shooting 9 to 10 months ahead, and they may have had them film some more scenes after they came back in January. So, we could see them sticking around till late October, November, possibly even till the holidays, but they are going.
So, are the writers setting up a double death for Johnny and Chanel? Will Sophia kill Johnny and then Chanel dies of breast cancer? I mean, it’s heartbreaking to think about it because they have the adopted son, they have the baby on the way. Or Sophia could try and kill Johnny and he winds up, you know, injured and in a long-term coma and that’s how he exits while Chanel’s cancer kills her.
However, I will say EJ would probably freeze them both if he could. I mean, it’s awful to contemplate, but after today’s this last I guess it was Thursday’s episode of Days with Johnny finding Chanel’s breast lump and then Kristen ordering Sophia to kill Johnny, things could get very dangerous very soon.
