The Devil Found a New Home
After months of terrorizing Salem, the devil left Marlena’s body — but jumped right into her grandson, Johnny.
Days of Our Lives 2022 Year in Review: From Devil Hopping to Death and Resurrection to a Legend’s Farewell
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Keeping It in the Family
Image Credit: NBC screenshot After getting dumped by her new husband — a.k.a. the newly possessed Johnny — Chanel found comfort in the arms of his sister, Allie.
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“But, I Was Sarah Last Time!”
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI The Sarah mask continued to get a lot of airtime in 2022. But this year, Gwen and Ava took turns posing as Xander’s missing love, in order to make it look like she no longer loved the big lug.
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Island Getaway
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI In reality, Kristen was keeping Sarah locked away on a deserted DiMera island. With nothing to do but read Renee DuMonde’s old diaries, a drugged Sarah began to believe that’s who she was.
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Getting Reacquainted
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Chloe was thrilled when her parents, Craig and Nancy, came to Salem. That is until Craig broke Nancy’s heart by revealing he was gay — and in love with Leo Stark.
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Lani, I am Your Father
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI TR Coates came to Salem to produce Johnny’s movie about Marlena’s possession. However, he was also Paulina’s abusive ex and Lani’s biological father, Ray.
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Father-in-Law of the Year
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Despite TR’s claims that he was a changed man, Eli caught him buying drugs in the park. In return, TR shot his son-in-law, who landed in a coma.
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The Devil’s Work
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Thanks to MarDevil helping Jan rape Shawn in 2021, Jan was able to claim he was the father of her baby. She, of course, used that as leverage to help her get out of prison and into Shawn’ custody on house arrest. Needless to say, that didn’t go over well with Belle.
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The Twin Bond
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI When the Devil was done with Johnny’s body, the demon jumped to his twin sister Allie, but not before a pit stop in Belle. However, Satan’s final stop would be outside Marlena’s family.
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A Tripp to the Dark Side
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI When AllieDevil’s attempts to secure Ben and Ciara’s baby were thwarted, Satan threatened to kill Allie. Tripp invited the demon into his body instead and then jumped out a window killing himself, thereby finally vanquishing Salem of the devil.
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Divine Intervention
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Luckily, Ghost Bo made an appearance to resurrect Steve’s boy, Tripp. Though, not before he visited his “Little One” to assure Ciara and Ben that their newborn, a.k.a. his namesake, would be just fine.
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Ava Who?
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Despite Rafe being involved with Ava, who was Nicole’s good friend, Rafe and Nicole acted on their long-simmering attraction and became a couple.
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Careful What You Wish For
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Rafe and Nicole even got married. Although, their quickie wedding probably lasted longer than their actual marriage, due to the fact that a newly returned and newly defrocked Eric returned to Salem.
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Two Couples, Zero Marriages
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Gwen and Leo’s brilliant plan to have a double wedding blew up in spectacular fashion. They were both outed for their crimes during the actual ceremony.
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Wedding Crasher
Image Credit: NBC screenshot First, Chad exposed Leo for already being married to his friend and drag performer, Jackie Cox. Then, Craig learned he was Leo’s mark from the beginning.
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Happiest Day of Abigail’s Life
Image Credit: NBC screenshot Chad may have enjoyed exposing Leo, but no one took more joy on that day than Abigail. She gleefully announced her sister’s role in Sarah’s continued disappearance and memory issues in front of the groom and wedding guests.
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See Ya, Dad!
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Lani may have warmed up to her father, TR, but after he shot Eli, attacked Abe, and threatened to hurt Paulina, she had enough and shot him dead.
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Goodbye, Salem
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Unfortunately, killing her bio-dad landed Lani behind bars. Ever the devoted husband, Eli found a job near her prison in D.C. and moved with the twins to be close to his wife.
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The Beginning of the End
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Thanks to JoDevil’s manipulations, Chad helped send EJ to prison for kidnapping Sami. When in reality, Sami was off traveling the world with her actual kidnapper, Lucas.
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Careful What You Wish For Part II
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI EJ’s time in prison turned out to be deadlier than he or Chad could have imagined. Once they were both freed, his former cellmate, Clyde Weston, killed Abigail in retalitation for EJ blabbing to Belle that he was the one who tried to kill him years ago.
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The End of ‘Chabby’s’ Love Story
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI A devastated Chad was the one to find Abby bleeding from a stab wound in their bedroom. After she succumed to her fatal wounds, Chad began the painful process of grieving the love of his life.
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Not So Fast
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Not only did Sami go off with Lucas, but she planned to marry him. Well, until a vengeful, grief-stricken Chad outed Lucas as her kidnapper, and the one to set EJ up in the first place.
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Happily Ever After
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI After protecting their newborn from the devil’s clutches, Ben and Ciara literally sailed off into the sunset after Hope gifted them a boat named, Living in Cin.
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She Really Knows How to Pick ‘Em
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Clyde received his comeuppance, but not until after he convinced Nancy to fall in love with and agree to marry him. Luckily, the truth came out before Nancy could say ‘I do.’
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Beyond Salem… and Earth
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI In the Beyond Salem spin-off, Hope reunited with Bo and their son Zack in Heaven, after getting shot by hitman Thomas Banks. They bickered, danced to Tonight, I Celebrate My Love, and then said goodbye, as Hope was revived on Earth.
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Back From the Dead
Image Credit: Peacock screenshot Hope may have left Bo in Heaven, but it won’t be the last she’ll see him until she gets there for real herself. Thanks to Megan Hathaway, he was brought back to life.
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Mr. and Mrs. Carver
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Before Lani was carted off to prison, she was able to attend her parents’ wedding. Abe and Paulina put all their troubles behind them (for the time being anyway) and married on Juneteenth.
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Keeping It In the Family Part II
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Belle and EJ grew close while she represented him during his prison ordeal. Once he was free, and Belle separated from Shawn, the former in-laws gave in to their months-long attraction and slept together.
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You Are Not the Father
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI After Jan gave birth, Shawn learned Jan’s fellow inmate/Orpheus’ son, Christian was the true father. He forgave Belle’s affair with EJ, and she forgave how easily he let Jan manipulate him and they reunited.
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The Start of Ava’s Downfall
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Ava was on such a good path having rebounded from Rafe to a casual fling with Jake. But as soon as they made things official, Jake was shot by a mugger and died.
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When One DiMera Dies, Another Rises
Image Credit: NBC screenshot After Jake died, Rolf transplanted his heart into Stefan, who he’d been keeping hooked up to machines for years. When Li found out, he ordered the mad scientist to brainwash Stefan into hating Gabi, so she wouldn’t leave Li for the resurrected love of her life.
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The Little Sister
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Li had his Stefan problem under control and even got engaged to Gabi, but things started to unravel when his little sister Wendy started sniffing around.
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A Kiriakis Returns to the Fold
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Playboy Alex Kiriakis came home to join the family business and play the field… until he laid eyes on Stephanie Johnson, who also recently returned to Salem.
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Friends With Benefits
Image Credit: Peacock screenshot It took a while for Alex to win Stephanie over, so he had some no-strings fun with shady lawyer Sloan, and a threesome with Chanel and Allie.
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Can’t Outrun Your Past
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI It was revealed that while in college, Chanel had an affair with a professor and accidentally contributed to his wife’s death when they fought about it. Chanel was arrested, thanks to the woman’s vengeful daughter, a.k.a. Alex’s bed buddy, Sloan.
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A Christmas Miracle
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI While Chanel was released on bail, her mother took her place in jail for covering up the incident. No worries though, Belle got the charges dropped just in time for Christmas.
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I *Finally* Do!
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI After Sarah’s memory was restored, she and Xander were finally married. It wasn’t all wedded bliss though, as a broke Xander reverted to his old ways. He kidnapped Susan (and innocent bystander Bonnie) for Ava in hopes of getting some blackmail cash from EJ.
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Holding a Grudge
Image Credit: Peacock screenshot Still bitter about things that happened decades ago, Orpheus poisoned Marlena, Kayla, and Kate. Luckily (?), Kristen discovered the cure in Rolf’s lab, but she only relinquished it when Brady agreed to dump Chloe and let Kristen move in with him and Rachel.
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A Ray of Hope Shines Through
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI One good thing to come from the women’s time on death’s door, was that a newly reunited Roman and Kate tied the knot. Impending death may have forced the issue, but they didn’t have any regrets.
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Unfaithful
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Nicole and Eric gave in to their passion despite her marriage to Rafe and his relationship with Jada. But their blink-and-you-missed-it reunion ended when a pregnant Jada had an abortion after Nicole imparted some “friendly” advice.
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Salem’s New Bad Boy
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Eric spiraled after he learned about the abortion and dumped Nicole. He landed in jail and in his new lawyer Sloan’s (hi, again!) bed. He then came up with a plan to “kidnap” Rachel in order to take down Kristen with Brady.
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Ava’s Ultimate Revenge
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Upon Jake’s death, Ava entered an all-out war with EJ, which led to Susan’s death. Ava then planted a bomb at Susan’s funeral before getting shipped off to Bayview for hallucinating her dead son Charlie.
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To the Future
One of the biggest things to happen with Days of Our Lives occurred offscreen, so to speak. The 57-year-old soap opera left NBC for Peacock, where hopefully, Salem’s shenanigans will continue streaming for decades to come.
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Classic Uncle Vic
Image Credit: Peacock screenshot Before 2022 came to a close, Victor got in one last epic snark during the late John Aniston’s final appearance as the iconic Kiriakis patriarch — reminding fans how much he’ll be missed.
