| Megan Hathaway-DiMera | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Days of our Lives | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Miranda Wilson | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current status | Former; Recurring | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1984-85, 2022-23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | June 20, 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | July 6, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cause/reason | Escaped police custody with Wilhelm Rolf's help | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Margaret DePriest and Sheri Anderson | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Betty Corday and Al Rabin (1984) Albert Alarr and Ken Corday (2022) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Megs (by Kristen) Mommie Dearest (by Kristen & Dimitri) Meggie (by Shawn) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gender | Female | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Age | 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Unknown FormerlySalem, Illinois | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Megan Hathaway DiMera is a character from the soap opera Days of Our Lives, portrayed by Miranda Wilson from 1984 to February 8, 1985. She is the daughter of Stefano DiMera. Miranda has expressed her interest in reprising the role after more than 3 decades of her character being presumed dead, and finally did in the second season of the spin off series Beyond Salem in July of 2022. In February 2023, she returned to the series on a recurring basis, but left again on July 6, 2023.
Storylines
Megan Hathaway DiMera comes to Salem in 1984 with her adopted father Maxwell Hathaway, though she is secretly the daughter of Stefano DiMera. Megan had been the high school love of Bo Brady. Bo loves Megan so deeply that when she broke his heart, he was unable to allow himself to fully commit to Hope Williams Brady. Megan thought Bo had left her, never answered her letters and broke her heart, as completely as he thought she had broken his.
Bo thought Megan no longer loved him because she never answered any letter or spoke to her when he called.
When they discover it was her mother who interfered to keep them apart, she became obsessed with winning him back and would stop at nothing in order to have him. Megan tells Bo that she discovered she was pregnant with his child, after he left town. She tells him that she gave the child up for adoption after her letters and pleas went unanswered, and because her mother convinced her it was the best thing to do in the circumstances. Bo initially softens towards her when he realizes what she must've gone through. However, he begins to doubt her when it's revealed than Roman Brady had seen Megan in an abortion clinic.
Megan with her father, Stefano
Throughout 1984 Megan becomes more and more involved with collecting 3 Prisms for her father Stefano. It's revealed that Stefano is suffering from an inoperable brain tumor and the Prisms are the only way to restore his health. Meanwhile, Bo is keen to help Megan & recover their adopted child, and the search leads them to New Orleans, where it turns out Megan has conspired to have Diane killed, steal her child, and set up dummy adoptive parents who then allow Megan and Bo to have 'their' child back. Bo saves Diane from the attempted murder and goes along with Megan's deception, in order to stay close to her and get to Stefano.
Megan and Andre
Megan's cousin André DiMera, shows up in town and kills Maxwell. When he calls Megan in to see him, she's initially dismissive, knowing that Stefano always preferred her when they were kids. She was Stefano's Golden Girl, and André was always jealous. However, once he reveals that Max is dead it puts a bit of fear into Megan's cocky attitude.
There are wonderful cat fight scenes between Megan and Hope as Megan has Bo close by her side because of 'their child', Zachary. After the plane crash on the deserted island, which brings Bo and Hope closer than ever to each other, Hope exposes, on a live news report, that her marriage to Larry Welch was a shame, ruining Larry career and destroying a valuable lackie for the Cartel that Megan was running, for Stefano.
Megan’s death
In 1985, Megan plots to kill Hope by electrocuting her in a hot tub at Chris' health club, The Body Connection. Megan's plan backfires when she overhears Larry Welch talking to a Russian contact about the 3 prisms Larry's father had invented. When Megan comes out and confronts Larry they fight. Megan threatens to expose this plot that Larry's is entangled with, a plot to blow up all of Salem, killing Stefano, in the process. Larry explodes at Megan's tirade and ends up killing her, unintentionally.
Larry then discovers the electronic drawing and works out the fact the they are for rewiring the hot tub to electrocute. Larry, in a panic, picks up Megan's lifeless body and dumps her body in the hot tub, then returns to the closet and following the diagram, 'electrocutes' her. Megan is then found by Hope, who becomes the prime suspect in her murder.
In 2022 on Beyond Salem, Megan is revealed to be alive and living in Caracas, Venezuela, in the second season of Beyond Salem. Stefano had her cryogenically frozen until treatment for her injuries could be healed. She spent all her time in Caracas planning to retrieve the prisms once more. With help from Harris Michaels, Thomas Banks (Susan Banks' brother), and both John Black and Steve Johnson through brainwashing, Megan retrieved all three which she used to bring Bo Brady back to life and cure his brain tumor.
However, she made him a prisoner when he asked about Hope and had Dr. Wilhelm Rolf brainwash him into wanting nothing to do with Hope. She had him then go to the DiMera Mansion to steal the orchid that made Kayla Brady Johnson, Marlena Evans and Kate Roberts sick. She believed that Rolf could make a serum from the plant to restore hers and Bo's youth so that she could recapture the spark they had as teenagers and start over. When the three women died, she had their bodies replaced with duplicates and ashes of a goat in Kate's urn. While the three were in cryo-suspension, she had them cured of their sickness, but only to use them as test subjects for Rolf's new serum. She is later captured after Bo goes rogue and abandons her along with John and Steve finding her compound after Harris remembers where it is. She manages to make a deal that has her transferred to Statesville Prison in Salem, Illinois and remain there when she confirms that Bo is alive and was under her control.
When Dimitri Von Leuschner, her son, manages to get her immunity, she returns to the DiMera mansion where she asserts herself as a member of family as well as confirming to Kristen DiMera that she has big plans beyond Salem and running the family business. During her scheming, she holds EJ DiMera and Kristen and decides to brainwash Harris again, with help from Li Shin and Rolf. However, during the assassination attempt, Megan is shot instead. While at the hospital, she escapes once again with Rolf's help.
