DAYS: BELLE AND EJ MAKE LOVE

Just as EJ and Belle are heading upstairs to make love, Sami arrives at the DiMera mansion with divorce papers.

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"It hits EJ [hard]," says his portrayer, Dan Feuerriegel. "Try as he might to tell everyone that he's fine and over her, you just can't stop that depth of a relationship and automatically switch off those feelings. He's hurt and conflicted with it all and deep down doesn't want [a divorce]."

When Sami announces she wants EJ to sign the papers so she and Lucas can get married, "it's an arrow through the heart," admits Feuerriegel. "Lucas is kind of his archnemesis. It's unfathomable that she would go down this route."