Drake Hogestyns Days of Our Lives character killed off 8 months after actors death

Like sands through the hourglass.“Days of Our Lives” officially killed off Drake Hogestyn’s character, John Black, on Monday.The emotional episode came eight months after Hogestyn passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 70 on September 28, 2024, and it saw Black flatline in a hospital with his wife, Dr.

Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall), close by his side.“You have put up the bravest fight I have ever seen,” Evans told her dying husband in the character’s final scene.“I know you’re weary.

I know you’re suffering.If you need to go, it’s okay.”Black was injured in a lab explosion days before his death as he tried to help Steve (Stephen Nichols) discover a drug to save Bo (Peter Reckell).

His body was completely covered in gauze to sidestep the fact that the character was no longer being played by Hogestyn.“We will always have you in our memories,” Hall’s character, who married Hogestyn’s character six times, said.“We will always hold you in our hearts.

You can rest now.”A montage of the two “Days of Our Lives” characters’ decades-long love story also played just before Black flatlined and was officially killed off.“I know.I know,” Hall, 77, wrote on Instagram after the episode aired this week.

“Hardest day ever.”Reckell, who returned to “Days of Our Lives” as Bo for the first time since 2023 for the touching episode, said there was “no acting required” when it came time to say goodbye to Hogestyn’s character in the wake of the actor’s actual passing.“It’s still difficult to talk about because Drake touched everybody in his sphere so closely, and he was my brother and one of my best friends,” Reckell, 70, told TV Insider.“Having his memorial, there was no acting required in those scenes, because you’re saying things as the character that parallel your feelings in your personal relationship.”“When I went to John’s memorial and all these emotions came up, I just wanted to run away and be...