Family
Shawn has been married to Caroline Brady since he first appeared on-air in 1983. The son of Peter Brady, and the grandson of Patrick Aloysius and Nora Molly Brady, Shawn has a brother Eric and two sisters named Molly and Colleen. Shawn was devastated when he learned that his brother Eric had molested his daughter Kimberly when she was a child, which resulted in Kim later developing multiple personality disorder. Molly married a man with the surname Murphy and had one known child, Colin, who turned out to be working for the DiMeras. In the summer of 2007, it was revealed that Shawn also had an older sister Colleen who bore striking resemblance to Shawn's granddaughter Sami Brady.
Through his son Roman, Shawn has grandchildren Carrie Reed, Sami Hernandez, Eric, Rex and Cassie Brady. He also has four great-grandchildren through his granddaughter Sami, William Robert Horton, Alice Caroline "Allie" Horton, John Roman "Johnny" DiMera and Sydney Anne DiMera. Through his daughter Kim, Shawn has grandchildren Jeannie and Andrew Donovan. Through his daughter Kayla, Shawn has a granddaughter Stephanie and a grandson Joseph "Joey".
Although not his son biologically, Shawn is still Bo Brady's legal father and he is Bo's children's legal grandfather (Shawn-Douglas, Chelsea, Zack and Ciara Brady).
Shawn and Caroline also have a spot in their hearts for John Black, whom they were tricked into believing was their son Roman for several years until the real Roman returned to town.
In the summer of 2007, it was revealed that Shawn's sister Colleen had a relationship with Stefano's father Santo DiMera, and that may have been the start of the Brady – DiMera family feud/vendetta.
Colleen was presumed to have died in a horrible manner at a young age, falling or jumping from a cliff in Galway. Shawn maintained that she was killed by a DiMera, while Santo's son, Stefano, blamed Shawn Brady. In reality both could be blamed. Stefano told Shawn that his mother was not dead and his father was still married and on the day of Colleen and Santo's wedding, Shawn told Colleen. Her death is said to have sparked the Brady/DiMera feud that has been going on since Santo's death in the 1980s. In January 2008, Colleen was found to have not killed herself. She had faked her death and left Ireland for South America. She died days after she and Shawn reunited. Grandpa Shawn died after giving up his oxygen mask to save his son, Bo, on a sabotaged airplane that was going down.
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