JOHN-PAUL LAVOISIER ON DAYS COMEBACK

Learning about his character's misdeeds since he last appeared as DAYS's Philip Kiriakis namely, staging his own death and framing Brady for murder, while in the hands of actor Jay Kenneth Johnson - was, in a word, "horrifying," says John-Paul Lavoisier

"As I was reading and studying the dialogue, I have to say that I was shocked. I was like, 'Oh, my God. This is crazy. This is wild.

This is unforgivable.' But as an actor you have to commit to this, you have to fall in love with it, and it's real. So I had to keep that living inside me throughout the course of a lot of other moments."

Lavoisier, who played Philip from 2015-16, was contacted to come back to the soap earlier this year. "I woke up to missed calls, text messages and an email on Thursday, March 9," he recounts. "And I was on set Monday, March 13."

The invitation wasn't exactly a total surprise to the actor. "When John [Aniston, ex-Victor] passed away, I heard about it instantly. I was at an event, and somebody mentioned it. I was shocked, of course. Part of me thought that this was obviously going to have a major effect on DAYS. And part of me wondered, 'Huh, I wonder if my phone will ring?" "