{"id":69890,"date":"2026-05-05T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=69890"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:04:32","slug":"days-update-friday-april-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/days-update-friday-april-17-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Update Friday, April 17, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: large\">Days of Our Lives Update<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dayslogo.jpg\" alt=\"Days of Our Lives logo\" width=\"235\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style3\">Update written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/22\/biojoseph\/\">Joseph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Xander and Gwen kiss on the couch in the living room of the DiMera Mansion until EJ walks in and questions them doing this again. Gwen tells EJ that she and Xander can&#8217;t keep their hands off each other and starts to talk about how Xander came over late last night, but EJ says he doesn&#8217;t need details. Gwen tells EJ that they are celebrating because Dimitri granted her divorce and offered to leave town. EJ asks them to celebrate upstairs or for Xander to at least put on a shirt. Gwen asks if Xander&#8217;s physique makes EJ feel a little lacking. Kristen then walks in and says she hopes they saved some champagne for her.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie wakes up to find Alex in the living room, babysitting Trey. Alex tells her that he&#8217;s sleeping while Stephanie questions why Trey is there.<\/p>\n<p>Belle meets Paulina at the Brady Pub for breakfast. Paulina tells Belle that there are a few things they need to get straight. Belle notes that she did send an apology to the judge. Paulina says the damage has been done. Belle questions if she&#8217;s asking her to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Theo goes to see Marlena at her office and thanks her for letting him come by on such short notice. Marlena asks how he is. Theo responds that he&#8217;s a total mess and he needs her help.<\/p>\n<p>EJ asks what Kristen is doing there. Kristen jokes that she&#8217;s interrupting Salem&#8217;s edition of Love Island USA. EJ says he just asked Gwen and Xander to take their party elsewhere, but Kristen asks them to stay for her big announcement which EJ questions. Kristen then announces she&#8217;s moving in.<\/p>\n<p>Alex explains to Stephanie that he ran in to Chanel yesterday and told her to reach out if she ever needed a hand with Trey, then she ended up texting this morning that she had an emergency at the bakery and the nanny called out. Alex talks about how Trey was fussy at first but finally dozed off. Stephanie calls that really nice of him to help Chanel out, but tells him that this is honestly the last thing she wants to be dealing with today.<\/p>\n<p>Paulina tells Belle that she&#8217;s not resigning, but she&#8217;s still on the judge&#8217;s bad side which could present trouble for both of them. Belle thought Paulina supported her plan with Rachel. Paulina says she did support keeping Rachel out of the system, but never withholding information from the judge. Belle talks about that not being her intention and questions handing off her entire fate to someone else. Paulina assures she knows what she means.<\/p>\n<p>Marlena asks Theo what&#8217;s going on. Theo says it&#8217;s hard to verbalize but last night, he had a meltdown as he was at the Pub with some friends and started freaking out, so he ran out. Theo mentions that Gabi tried to help him. Marlena asks if it was the atmosphere of the Pub. Theo says there was a lot going on, but he was on edge before he even got there. Theo admits it&#8217;s been killing him that he hasn&#8217;t been able to talk to anyone about this and that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s been on edge. Theo makes sure that Marlena can&#8217;t say anything to anyone if he tells her and says part of him doesn&#8217;t want to put this burden on her, but he&#8217;s going to lose his mind if he doesn&#8217;t talk to someone about it. Marlena assures him that it&#8217;s a safe space and asks what it is. Theo then reveals to Marlena that his mother Lexie is alive.<\/p>\n<p>Alex tells Stephanie that she doesn&#8217;t have to deal with Trey since he&#8217;s the one who volunteered to watch him. Stephanie questions Alex not having to work today. Alex reveals he took the day off before Chanel called because he thought he and Stephanie could spend the day together and do something fun, suggesting a picnic in the park or a walk along the river. Stephanie questions having the baby. Alex says he can come along. Stephanie isn&#8217;t sure she has the energy and says babies are a lot of work. Alex suggests Stephanie go back to sleep for awhile while he and Trey stay out of her hair. Stephanie says she doesn&#8217;t mean to be a bummer but wishes he hadn&#8217;t sprung this on her. Alex says he can see it was a bad idea but he&#8217;s trying to find ways to make her happy and clearly it&#8217;s not working.<\/p>\n<p>Paulina informs Belle that she spoke to the judge and persuaded her not to file a complaint with the state BAR, but warns that she is still under a microscope with zero room for error so she should steer clear of her court room. Belle argues that she doesn&#8217;t control what cases she gets. Paulina comments that she can&#8217;t afford any more problems. Belle asks if she&#8217;s okay. Paulina says far from it, so Belle asks what&#8217;s wrong. Paulina tells her it&#8217;s EJ DiMera and that she would not believe what he has done now.<\/p>\n<p>Marlena questions Theo saying his mother is alive. Theo clarifies that alive might not be the right choice of words as she&#8217;s in a limbo between life and death, but EJ thinks she will wake up soon. Theo reveals that over the past year, EJ has preserved Lexie&#8217;s body in a pod and now has this new drug. Theo calls the whole thing unbelievable. Marlena remembers an empty pod being found at the hospital. Theo informs her that EJ moved Lexie to a room under the house where she&#8217;s in a bed with monitors. Marlena asks if he&#8217;s seen her. Theo confirms that he has and that it is her mother, but he doesn&#8217;t know how this is possible. Marlena doesn&#8217;t know how far advanced the technology is. Marlena asks how Theo feels about his mother possibly being back with him. Theo responds that he can&#8217;t help but wonder if she will be the same. Theo says it would be a miracle obviously but it would cause so much upheaval in his family, especially for Paulina and Abe. Theo adds that EJ said he can&#8217;t talk to them about it so he doesn&#8217;t get their hopes up in case it doesn&#8217;t work. Marlena questions EJ putting that burden on him. Theo explains that EJ made him see that his mother would hate if she woke up and he was the CEO of DiMera, so he wanted to give him the opportunity to step down. Marlena questions that being so EJ&#8217;s son could step in.<\/p>\n<p>Gwen welcomes Kristen home. EJ comments on them seeming to have this confused with the Salem Inn. Kristen declares that now that her legal troubles are clear, she is taking back her life and questions allowing EJ to live there when part of the estate belongs to her. EJ responds that they&#8217;ll see who it belongs to when Stefano&#8217;s will is read. Kristen tells EJ to stay out of her way until then. EJ asks if she&#8217;s going to shoot him if he doesn&#8217;t as Gwen and Xander excitedly watch on. Kristen tells EJ that he can leave but EJ says he&#8217;s not going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie apologizes to Alex and hates that he feels like he has to walk on eggshells around her. Alex says it&#8217;s okay and he just thought Trey would be a fun surprise to cheer her up a bit. Stephanie responds that it&#8217;s sadly just putting her on edge. Alex questions why when he&#8217;s just a sleeping baby. Stephanie says nevermind but Alex insists, so Stephanie tells him that it makes her edgy because he&#8217;s mentioned more than once wanting to start a family with her, so she feels like he&#8217;s trying to manipulate her in to getting on board with that which she&#8217;s not sure she can do.<\/p>\n<p>Theo asks if Marlena is saying EJ had selfish motives by telling him about his mother. Marlena asks what he thinks. Theo says he always knew EJ wanted Johnny to be CEO, so him stepping aside works in his favor, but Lexie would hate if he&#8217;s working at DiMera and was adamant that he stay away. Marlena says maybe it&#8217;s not just that but points out the DiMeras always being after money and power. Theo doesn&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the full story since EJ loved Lexie. Theo explains that it was Stefano&#8217;s last wish to give Lexie back the time she lost, so he had Dr. Rolf secretly freeze her body. Marlena is sure that Stefano would&#8217;ve done anything after what he did to her. Theo questions what Stefano did.<\/p>\n<p>Gwen says she is delighted to have Kristen back. Kristen thanks her and questions if Xander is living there too. Gwen responds that Xander is her guest. EJ complains about Xander breaking beds and helping himself to the buffet. Kristen tells EJ to leave Gwen alone as she&#8217;s been through a lot with Jake and Dimitri, so he should let her enjoy her company. Kristen says she will send for the rest of her stuff and just wanted to give EJ a heads up about her return as she then exits. Gwen says the more the merrier while EJ feels it&#8217;s the fewer the better.<\/p>\n<p>Marlena tells Theo that she meant all the things Stefano didn&#8217;t do as after all the times he cheated death, it must have been crushing to him that he couldn&#8217;t save his daughter. Theo knows how special Lexie was to Stefano even though they didn&#8217;t always see eye to eye. Marlena is glad they were able to have this conversation as it&#8217;s a lot for Theo to carry alone. Theo admits it&#8217;s been good to talk to somebody about it as it&#8217;s been hard with everyone asking him why he walked away from DiMera and he&#8217;s not good at lying. Marlena is glad to be his confidant. Theo prays that Lexie comes back and is herself and that she&#8217;s okay, but he knows that it won&#8217;t be happy news for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>Belle asks Paulina what EJ has done. Paulina asks what hasn&#8217;t he done and complains that it&#8217;s one headache after another since he took over the hospital. Belle points out that EJ at least did let the police search the lab which led to Stephanie being found. Belle brings up the empty pod and how Jada thought they could find more at the house but the judge wouldn&#8217;t issue a search warrant. Paulina thinks back to arguing with EJ about that. Paulina then tells Belle that it is unfortunate. Belle calls it ridiculous and questions the odds of EJ using his power for the good of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Gwen suggests to Xander that they head upstairs before the DiMera siblings come back for round two. Xander says he&#8217;d love to but he has to get to the office. Gwen says that&#8217;s too bad as she hoped he&#8217;d stick around and make up for falling asleep on her. Xander says that had nothing to do with her as he had a really long day and too much to drink. Gwen questions what that was about that got him so hammered. Xander responds that he just learned something that threw him for a bit of a loop as it appears Sarah and Brady have gotten serious. Gwen asks if that bothers him. Xander asks how can it not since she&#8217;s the mother of his child and Brady&#8217;s such a tool, so he can&#8217;t get the image of them out of his head. Gwen offers to help him with that as they kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Theo tells Marlena that he can&#8217;t stop thinking about all the lives that this could affect. Marlena wants him to focus on himself and how he might be affected if his mother returned. Theo says that&#8217;s easier said than done. Marlena encourages that there are lots of ways to express his feelings besides therapy and suggests journaling. Theo says he considered it when he thought Claire was having an affair but he was scared someone would find and read it. Marlena feels it can be a big stress reliever so Theo agrees to give it a try. Marlena adds that they can continue to talk and tells him that he can make an appointment with her assistant. Kristen then walks in and says she needs a word with Marlena. Theo says he was just leaving and thanks Marlena as he exits. Marlena tells Kristen that she doesn&#8217;t have time for this but Kristen declares she is going to hear what she has to say.<\/p>\n<p>Alex swears to Stephanie that there was no ulterior motive to bringing Trey other than trying to help a friend and hopefully make his wife happy. Stephanie questions him not being eager to start a family. Alex says it&#8217;s not something he was going to start working on tomorrow, but it&#8217;s something he looks forward to in the future. Alex admits he was afraid they might not have a future when she went missing, but she&#8217;s back now and that&#8217;s all that matters. Alex assures her that there is no rush for them to have kids and she just needs to heal, so he wants her to take all the time she needs. Stephanie responds that she may never be ready.<\/p>\n<p>Belle tells Paulina that she has to get back to the office. Paulina thanks her for letting her to vent while Belle thanks her for not making her resign. Paulina is grateful to have a district attorney that cares about getting justice, but warns her to be careful going forward. Belle thanks her for setting the bar so high and says it&#8217;s an honor to work for such a competent and ethical mayor as she then exits the Pub.<\/p>\n<p>EJ walks through the town square and calls Rita, telling her about Kristen moving back in and he thinks they know why. EJ is aware that Kristen can no longer access the tunnels because they changed the codes, but if she gets too close, they will have no choice but to take other measures. EJ then hangs up as Belle approaches and asks what he can do for her. Belle says he can&#8217;t do anything for her but she did want to thank him for his help with Trey&#8217;s adoption hearing. EJ says he&#8217;s happy to help. Belle remarks that his timing couldn&#8217;t have been more perfect, almost like he arranged to swoop in to come to Johnny and Chanel&#8217;s rescue. EJ says it&#8217;s nothing like that and just good fortune. Belle questions how he knew he was going to walk in to announce he was taking over their case and feels it was almost like someone tipped him off, arguing that it wouldn&#8217;t be the first time a DiMera had a judge in their pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Kristen blames Marlena for Rachel being back in Bayview. Marlena says she&#8217;s not going to have this conversation. Kristen argues that Marlena can&#8217;t face the fact that she betrayed her own granddaughter. Marlena argues that if anyone is to blame, it&#8217;s Kristen for pulling Rachel out of Bayview against doctor&#8217;s instructions and forcing her to testify. Marlena questions if Kristen thought she was going to lie. Kristen complains that instead of protecting Rachel, she saw an opportunity to punish her and ripped her daughter out of her arms when she needed her the most. Kristen declares that she will never forget this and storms out of the office.<\/p>\n<p>Xander and Gwen continue kissing on the couch until Theo walks in.<\/p>\n<p>Alex tells Stephanie that months ago, they were having drinks with Chanel when Trey spit up on her and Stephanie commented that she liked babysitting because she could give the baby back so he thought she didn&#8217;t want to be a mom, but then she later insinuated that she did. Alex asks if that&#8217;s changed. Stephanie responds that a lot has changed. Alex says last time they talked about this, she wanted to focus on her writing career but now she&#8217;s taking a break from that. Stephanie argues that she has a ton to think about so she&#8217;s in no place to start a family and isn&#8217;t going to rush to fill a hole or make things normal. Alex says he was just asking but guesses he shouldn&#8217;t have. Stephanie complains that she doesn&#8217;t have answers and all she has is questions. Stephanie says she doesn&#8217;t recognize herself in the mirror and doesn&#8217;t know who she is, what she wants, or what&#8217;s important to her, so she has to figure all of that out all over again. Stephanie adds that she always thought she would have kids, but now she&#8217;s not so sure. Alex then remarks that Stephanie couldn&#8217;t wait to have kids with Chad and asks if she&#8217;s saying she&#8217;s not sure she wants to have kids or she&#8217;s not sure she wants to have kids with him. Stephanie argues that Chad already had two kids when they were dating. Alex argues that if they got married, she would&#8217;ve wanted more. Stephanie says there was a point she did but it was for all the wrong reasons. Stephanie questions why they are talking about Chad as whether she wants to have a family has nothing to do with Chad or Alex. Alex argues that he&#8217;s her husband and he&#8217;s really trying, but he doesn&#8217;t know what to do now as he doesn&#8217;t know how to help or if she still loves him. Stephanie insists that she does but the woman he married who had confidence, clarity, and certainty is not her as she&#8217;s not the same person she used to be. Alex responds that he&#8217;s not either as he was a player and now he&#8217;s talking about wanting to be a family man. Alex declares that Stephanie changed him. Trey wakes up, so Alex decides he&#8217;s going to take him for a walk and then he&#8217;ll take him back to Chanel so they can give her some space. Stephanie asks him not to leave and to talk to her, but Alex says he has nothing else to say as he walks out with Trey. Alex tells Trey that he&#8217;s sorry but he can&#8217;t seem to do anything right as they walk away. Stephanie remains inside and breaks down crying.<\/p>\n<p>Marlena goes to the Pub and sees Paulina, who says she looks like she&#8217;s already had a day as she invites her to sit down. Marlena says she was just grabbing a coffee to go as she has to get back to work. Paulina asks if she&#8217;s sure she can&#8217;t sit for a minute. Marlena says maybe another time. Paulina suggests they put brunch on the books which Marlena agrees to.<\/p>\n<p>EJ tells Belle that he&#8217;s sorry she got a slap on the wrist from the judge, but he couldn&#8217;t buy her even if he wanted and if he had her in his pocket, he would&#8217;ve had her dismiss the case against Johnny. Belle guesses he&#8217;s right. EJ says luckily he was there to help his son and he read the room quickly, so he sprung in to action. EJ tells Belle that he&#8217;s also a parent and he only wants what&#8217;s best for his child and the people he loves. Belle admits she thinks he&#8217;s being sincere right now, so she hopes for everyone&#8217;s sake that he did just get lucky. Belle hopes that if EJ does get a second chance with Johnny and his family, that he will cherish and nurture it. Belle tells EJ to think about the possibilities as she walks away.<\/p>\n<p>Theo apologizes for interrupting Gwen and Xander and says he&#8217;s looking for EJ. Gwen says she&#8217;s afraid he just missed him. Theo says he&#8217;ll catch up with him later then and walks back out. Gwen decides she&#8217;s going to shower and doesn&#8217;t want any more interruptions. Xander says he&#8217;ll be right behind her after he has a little bit more coffee. Gwen tells him to hurry as she heads upstairs. Kristen then returns, so Xander questions why she&#8217;s really moving back in. Kristen says she told him. Xander thinks back to overhearing EJ on the phone, saying he caught Kristen sneaking out of the tunnels. Xander tells Kristen that there&#8217;s more to it than that and guesses she&#8217;s looking for something. Kristen responds that she&#8217;s looking for inner peace and lasting happiness. Xander thinks Kristen is spying on EJ. Kristen claims that&#8217;s ridiculous while Xander questions if it is. 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