After getting pregnant from a one-night stand with Brando Corbin (Johnny Wactor), he and Sasha Gilmore fell in love. But then, Brando's meddling mother, Gladys, decided to move to town. When Sasha eventually went into labor, she needed to have an emergency C-section, and sadly the baby was born brain-dead due to oxygen deprivation. They named the child Liam but ultimately had to make the sad and gut-wrenching decision to have his life support shut off.
Taking a mental break, the two ended up eloping to Niagara Falls, with Brando unaware that Sasha had started using drugs again to numb her anguish. Later, a photographer, Paparazzo Felty (Brian Norris), was creeping around and snapped photos of Sasha using drugs. When she and Gladys pursued him, Sasha accidentally ran over Harmony Miller (Inga Caqdranel), who was fleeing her own drama and later died, leaving Sasha feeling incredibly guilty.
Lucy Coe (Lynn Herring) and Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms) worked with a TV shopping show called "Home & Heart" to have Sasha represent Deception and sell its products live on the air. When the program's host, Haven de Havilland (Morgan Fairchild), arrived, Felty was also there taking photos and making Sasha nervous — so she secretly took more pills. During the show, Sasha faltered for a moment, but Gladys called into the program posing as a potential customer and got Sasha to snap out of it and sell some products.
