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3. Marlena’s Real Life Drama

One of the most beloved characters on the soap opera is “Dr. Marlena Evans” played by Deidre Hall. While Marlena tried to keep out of the grasp of bad guys onscreen during the years (including a dance with the devil himself!), in her personal life Hall was fighting another battle. For two decades she tried to have a child, attempting numerous medical procedures—one of which sent her into a near-coma—to do so. She was tortured emotionally and physically, yet she and husband Steve Sohmer never gave up. Finally in 1992, their son David Sohmer was born via a surrogate, and later his younger brother Tully Sohmer was also brought into the world the same way. She and her husband (who was her fourth) divorced in 2006.