Days of Our Lives’ prison Statesville must have a revolving front door as many characters have been in and out of it several times. When Camila Banus played Gabi, she became a resident of the penitentiary when the actress left the role. Now that Cherie Jimenez has brought new life to Gabi, she’s been getting into all sorts of things, but there could be another murder on the horizon because EJ may have gone too far. Jimenez opened up about her fears for Gabi’s continually poor decisions.
Gabi’s Past Was Cause for Worry
Gabi had previously been sent up the river when it appeared that she had killed Li Shin (Remington Hoffman). She was eventually exonerated and Gabi returned to Salem, with Jimenez playing the part. But because she’s fairly certain that EJ (Dan Feuerriegel) had something to do with Arnold replacing Rafe (both played by Galen Gering), she confronted him with a gun. Fortunately, JJ (Casey Moss) came in at the 11th hour to tell her that Rafe was found alive and well, and she lowered her weapon.
Jimenez told Soap Opera Digest what she was thinking when she read about the confrontation in the scripts. Because of Gabi’s checkered past, she explained that whenever a scene in a story involves death or kidnapping and Gabi’s mixed up in it, she thinks, “Oh God. Please don’t send me back to jail!”
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Things May Spiral Out of Control
The actress continued to explain that EJ never feels the consequences of his misdeeds and gets away with things all the time as if he were innocent. She feels that Gabi doesn’t quite get why this happens and why he always skates with barely a slap on the wrist. “It’s very personal to her because Rafe is her brother. So I don’t put anything past Gabi,” hilariously adding, “I also stay out of Gabi’s way.”
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Jimenez explained Gabi’s rationale, noting that learning her brother had been replaced by a lookalike enraged her. As a result, she took Rafe’s gun from their house and brought it to the DiMera mansion with the intent of ending EJ if she didn’t find out where Rafe was. But the actress also knew that Gabi would ultimately have to deal with her actions. “It’s going to spiral into a set of circumstances, and it’s going to create a situation where Gabi’s going to be put in a really interesting position as far as where everything leads.”
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