{"id":1971328,"date":"2025-08-20T23:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1971328"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:18:38","slug":"why-we-knew-all-along-that-rachel-shot-ej-on-days-of-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-we-knew-all-along-that-rachel-shot-ej-on-days-of-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Knew All Along That Rachel Shot EJ on Days of our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Soap Hub<\/em>\u00a0predicted Rachel as E<\/span>J\u2019s shooter on Days of Our Lives<\/a><\/em> over a week ago, and the August 20 episode just confirmed our suspicions. Here\u2019s why, as the song goes, we knew it was Rachel all along!<\/p>\n

Soap Stuff<\/h2>\n

First, we\u2019ve been watching soaps for a long time, and when even my non-Days of our Lives<\/em> watching husband noticed to ask, \u201cWhy do they keep playing that kid?\u201d it was pretty obvious where the story was going.<\/p>\n

Second, pinning the crime on a kid means the show could have their cake and eat it, too: They could claim they played fair and the shooter was a regular character, not some random stranger passing through with no connection to the victim, while, at the same time, not having to get rid of a key, adult Salem citizen.<\/p>\n

Rachel will likely just get a slap on the wrist\u2014followed by an ice-cream cone and a reminder that she\u2019s the best girl ever\u2014if she has to face any consequences at all. And that brings us to why we REALLY knew this would be Rachel.<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong> Here are DAYS spoilers for tomorrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Free Range Parenting<\/h3>\n

EJ (Dan\u00a0Feuerriegel) remembered who tried to kill him when Rachel insisted on playing with a glass paperweight, even after Marlena (Deidre Hall) told her not to, and then was shocked when she ended up dropping and breaking it. Rachel was stunned by what had happened; she couldn\u2019t understand how it had happened, and she certainly couldn\u2019t understand why anyone would blame her for it.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s\u2026 Rachel. She is chastised not to do something, she does it anyway\u2014because she\u2019s Rachel, and Kristen (Stacy Haiduk) has made it clear to her that she can do whatever she wants and anyone who tries to hinder her in any way is just a tool of the patriarchy\u2014and then, when it goes wrong, she\u2019s been told that nothing is ever her fault, so she\u2019s confused why anyone might want to punish her for it.<\/p>\n

Rachel shot EJ. But Kristen was the one who made her into a spoiled brat. And a killer. This isn\u2019t even Rachel\u2019s first time!<\/p>\n

WATCH THIS:<\/strong>\u00a0Soap Hub Says<\/em>\u00a0unpacks the week\u2019s soap buzz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soap Hub\u00a0predicted Rachel as EJ\u2019s shooter on Days of Our Lives over a week ago, and the August 20 episode just confirmed our suspicions. Here\u2019s why, as the song goes, we knew it was Rachel all along! Soap Stuff First, we\u2019ve been watching soaps for a long time, and when even my non-Days of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1971329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[309475,341964,339884],"class_list":["post-1971328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-days-of-our-lives","tag-deidre-hall","tag-rachel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Why-We-Knew-All-Along-That-Rachel-Shot-EJ-on.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}