Epiphany Johnson

**Nurse Epiphany Johnson** was a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, *General Hospital*. She was the mother of the late Stan Johnson, who worked for Sonny Corinthos and the late Jason Morgan in their mob organization.

She was portrayed by actress Sonya Eddy since the character's debut on March 3, 2006. Originally it was a one-day role.

Epiphany was the head nurse at General Hospital from 2006 to 2015.

On December 20, 2022; it was revealed by Octavia Spencer that Eddy passed away on December 19, 2022 from an infection resulting from surgery. As a result of Eddy's passing, her final in-person appearance on the show was October 20, 2022 before being replaced by Avery Kristen Pohl as Esme Prince whose name also starts with the letter E, Haley Pullos as Molly Lansing-Davis, Nathanyael Grey as Mason Gatlin, Mark Engelhardt as Roman Hume, Charles Shaughnessy as Victor Cassadine before the character's death in 2023, Noelle Messier as Ramona George, Dan Buran as Linc Brown, Alan Brooks as J.B. Brown, Darin Toonder as Dr. Damon Montague after Victor and Epiphany's deaths, Kurt Yue as Judge Albert Kim, Diahnna Nicole Baxter as Warden Ellen Garten, and later Matthew Kimbrough as Judge Ron Jarrett.

On January 11, 2023; it was revealed there will be a tribute episode to Epiphany coming up in March 2023. The end of that day's episode had a brief montage dedicated to Sonya Eddy.

On February 15, 2023; it was confirmed that Eddy's tribute episode will officially air on Wednesday, March 29.

In the March 2023 issue of Soap Opera Digest it was confirmed by Frank Valentini that Epiphany's episode will revolve around her memorial service.

## Storylines

Epiphany Johnson first appears on General Hospital in 2006 as the new Head Nurse after Audrey Hardy steps down after the death of Tony Jones. Epiphany has mostly been a background character, although she was on contract for a short while, but more has been learned about her over the years. Non-nonsense nurse Epiphany Johnson is a force to be reckoned with. A full-figured woman who speaks her mind and doesn't mince words, Epiphany is quite intimidating. She is a dedicated nurse who doesn't tolerate anyone giving less than 110%. She will call out doctors and nurses alike, when she feels that they are being less than professional.

Others were surprised to learn that Stan Johnson who is a computer expert for Sonny Corinthos and Jason Morgan, is her son. Epiphany hates the idea of her son working for the mob, but can't convince him to leave. Her worst fear is realized in 2008 when she is talking on the phone to him one day while he is on business in Florida. Over the phone, Epiphany hears her son die in a mob hit ordered by Jerry Jacks who was under the orders of Franco Baldwin as they were involved in the Metro Court Hotel hostage crisis in revenge for Ryan Chamberlain a year earlier because the district attorney was none other than Sonny's maternal half brother Ric Lansing because Molly Lansing-Davis is an infant as Epiphany is also friends with Mayor Garrett Floyd who was interviewed by the press a year earlier in the aftermath because of Lorenzo Alcazar. In February 2008, Epiphany suffered a serious heart attack and collapsed in the hospital locker room. She had just received her son's cremated ashes and was clutching them in her hands when they found her. Luckily, the doctors were able to save her life.

In October 2015, it is revealed that she has appeared under the orders of Paul Hornsby after the death of Kyle Sloane making her living longer than Sloane himself. After she took Sonny's phone and threw it across the room, she was told to step down from her position as head nurse at General Hospital. Afterwards, Sonny was taken to safety and given a safe haven because his new nurse is Mary Wells who is the new head nurse at General Hospital.

In 2016, Epiphany was revealed to be unharmed along with Ric Lansing as well as Molly's boyfriend T.J. Ashford because of Landon Dixon holding everybody hostage at the All Saints Church in revenge for the late Helena Cassadine to violate everybody's constitutional rights because she was not surprised along with Ric Lansing and Mayor Janice Lomax was outraged by crime as her involvement of violating everybody's constitutional rights was revealed a month later.

In late 2016, her close friend Sabrina was killed by Paul Hornsby and she deeply mourned at the loss of her close friend and colleague.

After the deaths of Epiphany Johnson and Victor Cassadine, they were later replaced by new psychiatrist Dr. Damon Montague who Epiphany would never like if she were still around.

## Crimes Committed

* Took Sonny's phone and threw it across the room under Paul Hornsby's orders [Oct 2015; as Connie Falconeri]

## Health and Vitals

* Died of heart complications [revealed on Mar 28, 2023; details revealed on Mar 29, 2023]

## Relationships

* Friends
* Enemies

* Franco Baldwin - Former enemy and former co-worker (deceased)
* Gerald Brodin - Captain of the S.W.A.T. team
* Naomi Carson - Epiphany's new friend and former court judge
* Brad Cooper - Former co-worker
* Michael Corinthos - Epiphany's friend who sided with him to discredit Sonny Corinthos until Michael and Sonny reconciled as family
* Patrick Drake - Former co-worker now in Berkeley and replaced by his counterpart Valentin
* Felix DuBois
* Pres Floyd - Former Mayor of Port Charles and Janice's predecessor
* Russell Ford - Epiphany's friend and former General Hospital Chief of Staff (deceased)
* Jim Harvey - Epiphany's Niagara Equities counterpart (deceased)
* Paul Hornsby - Former District Attorney (imprisoned)
* Stan Johnson - Epiphany's son with Thomas (deceased)
* Ric Lansing - Former District Attorney
* Molly Lansing-Davis - Assistant District Attorney
* Janice Lomax - Former Mayor of Port Charles and Pres' successor
* Trey Mitchell - (deceased)
* Sabrina Santiago - (deceased)
* Kyle Sloane - Sided in with him in the campaign to discredit Sonny Corinthos until his death at Pier 54 (deceased)
* Jake Spencer - Elizabeth's son with Jason
* Damian Spinelli
* Ellie Trout
* Rupert Watson - Epiphany's male counterpart formerly at Ferncliff

* Diego Alcazar - (deceased)
* Lorenzo Alcazar - (deceased)
* Hank Archer - aka Shiloh (deceased)
* Joey Bruzetta - (deceased)
* Helena Cassadine - Valentin's mother (deceased)
* Stavros Cassadine - (deceased)
* Valentin Cassadine - Her former co-worker Patrick's counterpart
* Victor Cassadine - Valentin's father (deceased)
* Ryan Chamberlain - Stephen's uncle-in-law (deceased)
* Stephen Clay - aka Caleb Morley; Faison's American counterpart and Ryan's nephew-in-law (deceased)
* Sonny Corinthos - During her time at the Greystone Manor until she was stopped by Mary Wells and Ric Lansing and was forced to step down
* Landon Dixon - Helena's male counterpart (captured)
* Cesar Faison - (deceased)
* Sonny Faison - Faison's son with an unknown woman
* Darryl Hayes - (deceased)
* Charlie Heineck - Jerry Jacks and Paul Hornsby's former accomplice (deceased)
* Jerry Jacks
* Thomas Johnson - Epiphany's ex-husband, Stan's father, and Cassandra's henchman (imprisoned)
* Raj Patel - Stavros' younger counterpart (deceased)
* Frank Rausch
* Jeffrey Scribner - (deceased)
* Joe Smith
* Anthony Zacchara - (deceased)