It’s been a hot minute since viewers have seen Alison Sweeney on Days of Our Lives. Though she returned through the revolving door back in April, many were surprised that the character wasn’t present for John’s funeral. In June, the soap fave explained her absence to us in an interview and promised that viewers would get a true-to-life opportunity on how grief doesn’t have a timeline and how John’s death continues to resonate.

“They arranged for me to do it a week later, maybe two weeks later,” Sweeney shared with Soaps.com. “I do come in and have scenes about John, but my timing was a little bit off after all of that.”

Well fans, that time has come and even though Sami hasn’t been present during her son’s trial, you’ll get to see her back in Salem next week to share an emotional reunion with Marlena. However, it’ll only be for one episode until her next return in November.

Of the mother/daughter reunion, Sweeney told us that these moments that Sami spends with Marlena after John’s death will indeed feel realistic to the audience since “mourning doesn’t always happen [when] everyone gets together on one day. Sometimes, that’s an ongoing thing. Having Sami come back and share those moments with Marlena,” allows the writers to tell the story and gives Sami the opportunity to honor John. “I’m really glad that I got to be a part of it in the way that I was, it felt very real,” she added.

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