Fast forward nearly 30 years to 2018 and Steve Johnson’s other best friend, John Black (Drake Hogestyn), was blackmailed by dirty ISA agents into poisoning Steve. John did this as slowly as he could as not to kill Steve before he could fight his blackmailers. Little did he know, Steve’s eyesight would be affected by the poison. After John was able to stop poisoning his pal, Stefan DiMera (then played by Tyler Christopher) offered Kayla Johnson a bionic eye to replace his lost eye and Steve had two eyes again (via Soaps.com).
Those two eyes even lasted until mad scientist Dr. Wilhelm Rolf (Will Utay) kidnapped Steve and implanted the “essence” of late supervillain Stefano DiMera into Steve’s consciousness, making Steve truly believe he was Stefano. Known to fans as “Stevano”, the character lived a secret life as Stefano for a while, but shocked Kayla when he dumped her because Stefano would never want someone as sweet as Steve Johnson’s wife (via Soaps In Depth). Eventually, the truth was revealed and Stevano got into an altercation with members of the DiMera family, resulting in Anna DiMera (Leann Hunley) defending herself with a high-heeled shoe. That shoe got wedged in the bionic eye and when Stevano became Steve again, he got his eye patch back and all was right in the “Days of Our Lives” world (via Soaps.com).
