Days of Our Lives causes confusion as Sophia Choi‘s (Rachel Boyd) supposed suicide has many people pointing fingers at each other. But ultimately, who is really to blame for the loss of this teenager’s life? We know who hit her in the head. That was Kristen DiMera (Stacy Haiduk) obviously. But there’s a lot more nuance than just who struck the final blow.
we are going to look at how the current storyline about Sophia’s apparent suicide is a complex situation with many layers of blame and manipulation that we can peel back. We’ve got lots to talk about so let’s do this.
Trusting Kristen DiMera Was Sophia’s Biggest Mistake on Days of Our Lives
So, trusting Kristen may have been the biggest mistake of Sophia’s short life. Certainly a fatal one. After she set up Rachel Black (Lorelie Olivia Mote), we know Sophia was scared that Kristen wanted to hurt her and she did. But the DiMera diva was very slick about it.
First, she convinced Sophia that there was another path forward. Kristen admitted that while she was upset that Sophia had used her tween daughter Rachel as her drug mule basically, Kristen insisted that she could let it slide because what she really wants is to get revenge against her brother EJ DiMera (Dan Feuerriegel).
And Kristen pointed out that Sophia should want that too after what EJ did in the final adoption hearing. And of course, Kristen has it in her devious head that it’s all EJ’s fault that Rachel shot him because he had hidden away Kristen’s mom, Rachel Blake (Roslyn Gentle), aka Rachel Senior.
Kristen Only Has Herself to Blame on DOOL
But EJ wouldn’t have ever had to do that if Kristen had been smart and had whisked her mom out of Salem so she wouldn’t have been pushed to testify against EJ. There’s a whole, you know, snitches get stitches kind of thing. And in the end, he didn’t kill Rachel Senior, which he could have. He just stashed her somewhere that the DA couldn’t find her to put her on the stand. And we all know what is wrong with the kid is that her mom Kristen has set the worst possible example for little Rachel.
So, Kristen came up with a sinister plan to get Sophia to kill Johnny DiMera (Carson Boatman). Since Kristen’s blaming Rachel being at Bayview on EJ, she thinks he should lose his son Johnny. Also, Kristen knows Sophia hated Johnny for ditching on Trey’s adoption at the first time it came up. So, Sophia got busy. She wrote this suicide note blaming her former bestie Holly Jonas (Ashley Puzemis) and all her cyberbullying for her planning to take her life.
Bear in mind though, it was Kristen who told Sophia to write the suicide note and leave it where it would be found by her family. And then Kristen gave Sophia a gun with instructions to take Johnny out. But when Sophia took off for Johnny’s place, she deviated from Kristen’s simple shoot Johnny and run plan. And that’s where things got twisted up. But at that point, her fate was already sealed.
Sophia Went Full Science Fair Nerd on Johnny on Days
When Sophia deviated from the plan to shoot Johnny, we saw Sophia kind of went full science fair nerd on him. Sophia maced Johnny and then she pistol whipped him, tied him up, and then here’s the science part. She set up a tea light candle near an accelerant and turned on the gas stove. So, she set up this death trap, you know, and then Sophia took off to finish faking her suicide.
Luckily, other residents in the apartment building smelled the gas, reported the leak, and Javi Hernandez (Jacob Martinez) swooped in and saved Johnny. And then Sophia went to the out of the way bridge and Kristen was waiting for her to finish the plan. She wanted to know if Sophia took care of it, if she killed Johnny. And at that point, Kristen thought Sophia did it and that Johnny was dead.
Days of our Lives: Kristen Betrayed Sophia
And then Sophia expected to get what Kristen promised her, the fake ID, the passport, and money so she could leave Salem behind and start a new life. She told Sophia, you know, lean over, get your fingerprints on the railing in case the cops search. And Kristen said, “Leave your stuff. Toss your shoes.”
And then with Sophia’s back turned, Kristen bashed her in the head with a big old rock. And then after she cracks Sophia’s skull, Kristen had two of her goons throw Sophia off the bridge.
So while technically, yes, Kristen is the one who killed her, the Salem PD and the DA are looking into things, they’re trying to figure out who caused Sophia’s apparent suicide because that’s what everybody assumes is her fate at this point. They still haven’t found her body. And once they do, you know, that should answer a lot of questions because Kristen caved in her skull with a rock.
Sophia Is to Blame for Poor Life Choices on DOOL
So, obviously Sophia is to blame for poor life choices leading up to the moment of her death. But we know as crazy as she was, Dr. Gregory, her baby shrink, never seemed worried that Sophia was so depressed that she would take her life. Psychotic, sure. But not suicidally depressed. And after killing Johnny, you know, Sophia planned to fake her death, take Kristen’s money, start this new life in Paris.
And in Sophia’s note, she blamed Holly Jonas (Ashley Puzemis) for pushing her to the brink. Arianna Horton (Vico Escorcia) and Holly had recently raged at Sophia both online and in person. But it was Holly’s words about Sophia that got the most heated and concerning out on social media. And you know, this was just more messiness on Holly’s part. And right now, Amy Choi (Shi Ne Neilson) is grieving and she’s angry. She recently confronted Holly after Jada Hunter (Elia Cantu) told her at this point we think Sophia is definitely dead that this is no longer a missing person’s investigation.
Jada told Amy and Jason Choi (Steven O Young) now that they’re just trying to recover Sophia’s body. So, Amy’s pushing for charges to be brought against Holly for cyberbullying Sophia to the point she took her own life. And we could see public opinion going that way because you know the college young adult scene is pretty mean. You know the other girls in the sorority and stuff might start saying Holly drove Sophia to suicide.
Amy’s Controlling Ways Impacted Sophia on Days
Amy’s absolutely devastated as any mother would be and doesn’t want to believe that Sophia would kill herself. So Amy is blaming Holly. And that makes sense because Sophia’s note specifically mentioned Holly by name. But just like Kristen’s doing about Rachel, I don’t think Amy is taking her own parenting problems into account while she is searching for answers on Days of our Lives.
Because even before Sophia went off the deep end, Amy was so controlling, she wouldn’t let Sophia terminate her pregnancy for religious reasons. And for those same reasons, Amy was pushing Sophia to keep the baby. She tried to pressure Tate Black (Leo Howard) and Sophia to get married, raise the kid, skip college.
But eventually Amy agreed to an adoption because she had no choice since Sophia was 18 by then. But Amy still kept trying to control that as well. Kept limiting their options. And I think she was probably hoping Sophia to keep the baby in the end, you know. But it didn’t work out that way.
Days of our Lives: Amy Can’t See Her Own Faults
But Amy doesn’t seem to take responsibility for how her uber controlling ways impacted Sophia and her decisions. And in the end, the plot she cooked up with Kristen was definitely what ended her life with a crash of a rock. But there were a lot of choices along the way and people who contributed to her getting to that point.
So at this point, it looks like Kristen definitely killed her even though her body’s not turned up and Sophia is haunting Kristen. Now, it is Salem, so there is a chance she survived and is downstream with a traumatic brain injury, maybe a light dose of amnesia.
Hopefully, though, her body is found soon, and it will show clear signs of murder, which should clear Holly’s name. But then it’ll start a whodunit and Amy might try and pin that on Holly as well. Bottom line is that Amy wants somebody to blame because she can’t face the awful truth that in the end she played a role in what happened to her daughter Sophia.
