It's been a horrible week forDays of Our Livescharacter Xander Kirakis (Paul Telfer). The business mogul started off the week confronting his half-brother over the life-changing secret he was keeping, only for things to go from bad to worse when he realized his wife knew the truth and kept quiet. Now Telfer, Xander's portrayer, reflects on the latest story developments and questions whether Xander can move forward with Sarah. On screen Xander's half-brother Philip (John-Paul Lavoisier) returned to town and with the help of his pseudo-mother Vivian (Louise Sorel), the two falsified a letter from their late father Victor (John Aniston) claiming that he wanted Philip to run Titan alongside Xander. Philip manipulated his way back into the company, but after months of secrecy the secret was finally exposed. Xander initially tried to handle matters quietly, but after being told that due to on-going business deals, it would be a bad look for the company to remove Philip at this point in time. Xander tries to work along side his scheming half-brother, but is unable to do so for long, and eventually takes matters into his own hands and in Philips hotel room beats his brother up. Philip battered and bruised loses consciousness and needs medical attention, but not before uttering that Xander's wife Sarah (Linsey Godfrey) knew Philip's scheme and instead of telling Xander, decided to keep Philips secret. Now Xander has confronted Sarah over this secret, but is it too little too late? Telfer spoke withSoap Opera Digestabout the current storyline. Discussing the confrontation scenes between Xander and Sarah, Telfer said, "The scenes allowed Sarah to have more strength and more weaponry, I guess, in the argument. She's not wrong. She did a bad thing and she was wrong to do it, but her motivations made total sense if you look at it on paper and look at Xander's behavior over the years. But it becomes this thing of, "Is this entire love story untenable? Can it actually continue?" It's super heart-wrenching, the way it plays out. The fact that it happens at the same time as all this other high-stress stuff is going on in Xander and Sarah's life just heightens it even more. It's like the whole world is crumbling around them. The ground is literally disintegrating beneath their feet, and it's just awful." Telfer explained how Xander feels now stating, "Now there's not just the rage and the anger at the betrayal, but there's also this terror of loss. It's like, "Wait a minute. Nothing's changed. You still don't trust me. You still don't believe that I won't fly off the handle and try and kill everybody. You still think I'm a danger to our daughter." Sarah and Xander have been together for all this time, and it's been, from his perspective, wonderful. So it's not just the anger, but it's the awfulness of potentially losing all of that." Examining his frame of mind, Telfer shared, Xander "is like, "How can I be with this woman? What's the point anymore, if I do everything aboveboard and I'm honest and good, but then she's dishonest in order to, what, force me to continue to be the way I've become?" It's so sad. Xander's feeling this mixture of sadness and rage and deep tragic loss." Telfer previously went to social media to address fans concerns about the recent story developments. Telfer said, ""Totally understand that - esp for fans that enjoy Xander/#Xarahas one of their main reasons for watching Obviously I won't go into spoilers, but i will say that this "destruction" is quite different from prior ones - and I feel that there are unaddressed issues. Relating to Xander's character and past behavior that need to be properly explored and dramatized before he can achieve the kind of stability and happiness he keeps saying he wants. So I remain hopeful he'll get there one day…" Days of Our Lives streams weekdays on Peacock.
