Di Henry
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Di Henry (also known as Di Kirby) is a character in the television soap opera All My Children. She is played by Kelli Giddish.
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[edit] Character History
[edit] (Di)re Beginnings
Di first appeared as a fellow prisoner of Krystal Carey. Di defended Krystal when other inmates were harassing her. Even though Di had not ever spoken about her past, she seemed to know much about Tad Martin.
[edit] The Pretender
After Di was released from prison, she was hired by David Hayward to fool Tad Martin and J.R. Chandler into thinking she is the late Dixie Cooney Martin. After she was given the alias Diana Cole, she began working as the new nanny to J.R. and Babe Carey's infant son Little Adam. Meanwhile, Hayward planted evidence in Switzerland to make it look like Dixie may have survived the car crash that killed her.
Eventually, a suspicious Tad took Di's compact from her purse to compare her fingerprints to Dixie's -- and they matched. Confronted with these results, Di confessed to everyone that she was Dixie. But, unknown to all of them, the compact was actually an old one of Dixie's that David kept after she was killed.
Still, not much was actually known about Di's past... except that she seemed to have a heart problem similar to Dixie's, she only just has one kidney just like Dixie, and she has a scar on her neck that could have been caused by a car accident similar to the one that killed Dixie.
[edit] Revelation
Later on, Di revealed to everyone that she was in fact really Dixie. She explained that after losing her unborn baby in the accident and a series of grueling surgeries, she fell into a deep depression and wanted to start a new life. But she couldn't stay away from her family and decided to reappear incognito because she was not entirely sure she wanted to return to her old life.
J.R. immediately forgave his "mother" and accepted her into his life. A DNA test later revealed that Di's DNA did in fact match J.R.'s, although it really only proved that they were close blood relatives because an actual confirmed DNA sample of Dixie before her accident was unavailable.
[edit] The Truth
Finally, in September 2005 with the return of Dixie's half-brother Del Henry, viewers and later Pine Valley residents learned that Di was really Dixie's long-lost half-sister from their shared father's bigamous lifestyle.
Di's past was revealed in October 2005 while Julia Santos was being held captive that she was put in jail because she took the fall for her boyfriend who was one of the executives at Enron that would have had him arrested.
[edit] Dixie's Return
As of December 23, 2005's episode of All My Children, it has been revealed that Dixie is indeed still alive, and apparently Di has been in touch with her for some time. It has since been revealed that Dixie purposely stayed away from Pine Valley and her family because she has been searching for her daughter, Kate, whom she was coerced into giving up for adoption.
By the summer of 2006, Tad had dumped Di for keeping the secret that Dixie was alive. And as Di was helping Dixie & Tad search for Kate, she had a fling with Tad's investigative partner, Aidan Devane, who had just been dumped by Erin Lavery, a friend of Di's.
[edit] The Next Chapter
As 2006 wind down, Di & Aidan started to become a more serious couple when Erin, along with Simone Torres, were murdered by a mystery stalker known as the Satin Slayer. Di & Aidan came up with a plan to catch the killer, bringing them closer. During the holidays, Di asked Aidan to move into Wildwind with her. Aidan happily agreed. Yet tragically, Di's life was turned upside down when Dixie was accidentally poisoned and killed with pancakes by the Satin Slayer (the pancakes were meant for Babe).
[edit] Relationships
- Garrett (Ex-boyfriend)
- Kevin (Ex-boyfriend)
- Tad Martin (Ex-fiance)
- Aidan Devane (Lovers)
