Heartbroken, Ivy turned to Julian, and the two had sex again. Unfortunately, Sam, who had been convinced to forgive Ivy, walked in and blasted her for "betraying" him with Julian. Sam swore to never go back to Ivy again. Julian and Ivy, realizing that they would never be with their respective loves, decided to try to reunite. Honesty, however put a rift between their relationship. Ivy's relationship with Fox was also damaged when she accidentally revealed that her terminally ill son was not dying at all. She managed to reconnect somewhat with her daughter Fancy, and both were shocked when Pretty Crane returned to Harmony, blaming both her mother and sister for her horribly scarred face. Gradually, Ivy began turning toward her feelings for Sam again when tragedy struck. Fox was murdered in September 2007, the victim of an unseen culprit. A devastated Ivy blamed Fox's widow Kay, and believed that her daughter-in-law was a serial killer. Sam and Ivy become a couple again on September 2007. After seeing that her grandson Jonathan Winthrop pulled through a liver transplant, Ivy encouraged her son to once again break up with Theresa who had been acting out of character, and infuriating Ethan at times (both he and his mother were unaware that Gwen was blackmailing Theresa into distancing herself from Ethan). Pilar confessed the blackmail to Ivy, but she had yet to understand it is Theresa who is also being blackmailed. Ivy, unknowingly nearly became a victim of her son's murderer, Viki, in order to serve as a distraction. Theresa eventually revealed that Little Ethan is Ethan's biological son after he and Gwen renewed their wedding vows, finally helping Ivy to realize that Theresa is truly the love of her son's life, after which she admonished Gwen for having kept them from being together. When Gwen and Rebecca's lies were finally exposed (during which, when Rebecca griped that she had a constitutional right to being strip searched by a handsome arresting officer, she shot at Rebecca, ""In what country, Rebecca, Slutistan""?!) she then made a heartfelt apology to Theresa for not having trusted her, gladly welcomed her to the family, and displayed new-found faith in Theresa; after Theresa promised Ivy that she'd be good to Ethan, Ivy's last words on the show were a tearful "I believe you". Ivy was more than angry to find out that Rebecca and Gwen were planning on killing the Lopez-Fitzgerald family. This revealed that deep down Ivy was a kind and wonderful person, and didn't want to have anything to do with Rebecca and Gwen ever again, and more likely she went back to being best friends with Pilar.