Why is carlos solis in rehab

Zach Young, the recently wealthy son of her friend Mary Alice, decides he wants to date Gabrielle. Although Gaby refuses to date him, she has to befriend him too due to his strange habits.

Zach proposes to Gaby at a party, where she rejects him. Gabrielle later meets Victor Lang who is a candidate for the mayor of Fareview. They date, but Gaby makes it clear that she is not interested. They both have mutual feelings of love. When Gaby finds out that Carlos is dating her neighbour Edie Britt, she accepts Victors marriage proposal.

As the marriage gets sooner, Gabrielle has second thoughts. She still continues to marry Victor, however after the wedding, Gaby over hears Victor admitting he only married her for his political gain, which only leads to her wanting to go back to Carlos. After Edie attempts suicide, Carlos calls off the plan. One month after, Gaby and Carlos continue with their affair, and ignore both of their commitments with Edie and Victor.

Edie soon becomes nervous that Carlos is having an affair with Gabrielle and hires an investigator. It is soon discovered that they are having an affair, and Edie shows photo evidence to Victor. Victor takes Gabrielle to his boat, where she finds out that Victor is aware of what she is doing with Carlos.

Gabrielle, worried that he might kill her, knocks him off the boat and leaves him there. Victor suffers and plans to get revenge on the couple. He attempts to kill Carlos but died in a tornado. Carlos is also hurt as he becomes blind from the tornado, also destroying the only documents giving him access to an off shore account. The couple remarry soon after. The couple rent out a room to Ellie Leonard to help them financially. Gabrielle later discovers that Ellie is a drug dealer and warns the authorities.

After Gabrielle has warned them, her and Ellie develop a bond, and Gabrielle helps her to escape before the police arrest her. Gabrielle later finds several thousands of dollars in Ellies abandoned belongings. Ellie comes back to get it however Gabrielle tries to hide it from her. Five year jump ahead, Gabrielle and Carlos have two daughters name Juanita and Celia.

Season Five Five years after season four. Gabrielle is not as beautiful, and Carlos is still blind. The couple are not raising two overweight children and naughty daughters. The family are still suffering financially, forcing Carlos to take a job at the local country club, pushing them further away from the higher class. Virginia becomes very close with the Solis family. At the start, Gabrielle doesnt mind, as she enjoyed the luxuries she gained from their relationship.

Gabrielle starts to feel more uncomfortable when Virginia tries to make important decisions for their daughters. Carlos regains sight after having surgery.

Carlos hopes to take a job at the community centre helping the blind. Tired of the financial struggle they have endured, Gaby forces Carlos to take a higher salary job. Gabrielle and Ana are resentful to a good relationship. Ana doesnt show any respect for the house hold rules.

Ana beins to start seeing one of the new neighbours sons called Danny Bolen. Ana gets a job at John Rowlands resterant. John attempts to get Gabrielle back, asking her if she still has feelings for him or not. Gabrielle willingly tells ohn that she is not interested and says that she is happy the way that she is. Ana quite her job after finding out that Gabrielle and John have previously had an affair.

Gabrielle also develops a difficult relationship with her daughter Juanita. Gabrielle and Carlos attempt to get Juanita into private school.

Gabrielle finds out that Lynette has been hiding her preganancy in a scare that Carlos will fire her. Gabrielle ends their friendship and Carlos attempts to get Lynette to quite her job.

An emergency plane crashes into Wisteria Lane, and Lynette saving Celia from the crash, causes for Lynette and Gabrielle to reignite. Gabrielle and Angie share an awkwar frienship when she finds out that Ana and Danny aredating again. Patrick tracks the family down to Wisteria Lane.

Patrick runs over Nick, and holds Angie and Danny hostage. Gabrielle helps the family by rescuing them and sending them to Atlanta. The government are still searching for the family due to their involvment with Patricks terrorism.

Gaby goes to hospital. Gaby soon realises that she wants to meet her real daughter and gets a lawyer to help her find her family. Carlos is very angry when he finds out as the other family could take Juanita away which would be unforgivable. He clearly feels camaraderie with longtime male co-stars Doug Savant and James Denton ; the two clowned around with him at the bar.

Over the seasons, Carlos has gone to prison, become blind, divorced and a drunk. The most recent development, putting Carlos in rehab and away from the main action for several weeks, was actually a welcome one, he said. Down the line, he would welcome another series — preferably one that films in Texas, so he can be close to family. However, it would have to be the right series.

I want horses, hand grenades, mud, bullets, guts, sweat, crime. They go back to get him and when they do, Victor and Carlos fight. Victor went to stab Carlos and Gabrielle knocked Victor overboard again.

When they look for him in the sea, they can't see him so Gabrielle and Carlos decide to frame it as suicide and let the boat go out to sea. Carlos wanted to go the police, but Gaby drugged him to stop him.

However, Victor is later found alive. He pretended to have amnesia and forgotten what had happened on the boat but when he and Gaby are alone - he threatens her, declaring that he remembered everything. Gaby and Carlos plan to leave Fairview, but the tornado warning stopped them. As the storm intensified, Gaby left the house to confront Edie about Carlos's finances. In the meantime, Victor sneaked into the house with a gun and tried to kill Carlos.

Carlos ran out into the storm and Victor ran after him, firing shots. Victor is killed by a flying fence post and Carlos was hit on the head, rendering him unconscious and blind.

Carlos told Gaby that it is only temporary and that his sight will return, but found out from Edie that Carlos's sight will never return. Edie congratulated her for accepting the lifelong task of caring for a disabled husband.

Gaby was upset that Carlos lied to her, but he explained that he was worried that she would not marry him, had she known the truth.

She says that she would have come around but now he has robbed her of this chance. Gaby tells Carlos that she is with him "for better or worse. Carlos's life has changed dramatically. Despite medical doubts, Gaby unexpectedly became pregnant twice in a row. While Carlos viewed Gabby's pregnancies as "miracles", she was less enthusiastic and worried about money.

Carlos became a masseur in order to keep their family afloat. During the time jump, Carlos continues to be blind and stays married to Gaby. A year or two later, Gaby gets pregnant again and has another daughter which they name Celia Solis. It is strongly hinted there were complications or Carlos or Gaby dropped Celia a couple of times due to the fact she isn't all that bright.

Early in the season, Carlos learned that his vision can be easily restored. He happily anticipated getting to see his wife for the first time in five years and his daughters for the first time, although Gaby was worried that he wouldn't recognize her and find her unattractive. When his sight is restored, Carlos finds his daughters and wife beautiful and notices that Gaby sold nearly all of her valuable belongings in order to support their family.

He eventually quit his job as a masseur and take a high-paying business job so that he can give his daughters a better life and Gaby a life he feels she has earned.

Carlos became president of the company he was working at due to the death of Bradley Scott. Later on, in this episode, he hired Lynette Scavo. In the season finale, Aunt Connie claims she is dying and needs someone to care for her granddaughter Ana. Carlos agrees as a way to pay back the aunt who did so much for him, despite Gaby's protests. Ana seems nice, but is actually a schemer who can get guys to do what she wants by flirting.

Gaby teaches Ana how to get guys and tells her that she should ignore them. She tells her that that is how she got Carlos which enrages him. They all then rush outside when they hear Karen's screams. Carlos is shocked when he learns of the attack on Julie Mayer as he says that she is the nicest girl ever. Carlos, Tom and Orson then start to get suspicious about the Bolens and decide that it is time that they get to know them.

Later, the guys stop Nick and start questioning them. Angie then comes and tells Nick that his mother's on the phone, providing him with an excuse to leave. Carlos finds out that Juanita is not their real daughter, but hides it from Gaby, afraid that it will hurt her.

When Gaby eventually finds out, they out to look for her real daughter, Grace. Over first meeting her, they see Grace throwing a tantrum over an expensive jacket, and know that Grace is Gaby's real daughter. They also find out that her parents are illegal immigrants, though Grace being born in the United States is a citizen. Her father gets arrested after not showing the police a license, leaving Grace's fake mother to go in hiding.

Even though Gaby and Carlos try multiple times to take in Grace at her house, Grace's "mother" insists she stay with her.

He supports Gaby when she goes into therapy after she begins to lose it, and later goes to Gaby's hometown with her to confront her former stepfather who is now dead, but instead Gaby sees a teacher who she confided in and didn't believe her, causing to Gaby to tell the woman she should feel ashamed and not her.

They leave the town and Gaby puts the past behind her. When Andrew seeks rehab for drinking, he decides to come clean to Carlos over running over his mother.

Bree and Gaby both try to stop him and when Carlos invites Andrew to a camping trip, they suspect the worst. They chase Carlos to the woods and when they see him with a bloody towel and dirty shovel, Bree blurts out what Andrew did just before her son returns. Carlos is outraged, not only with Andrew but with Bree and Gaby for hiding the truth. He tries to force Andrew to drink in his mother's memory and walks out of the cabin. Andrew, Bree and Gaby find him at his mother's grave as Andrew talks to him about what happened and Carlos decides to forgive him.

When Bree comes to thank him, however, Carlos coldly says that he can't forgive her knowing the truth all these years and hiding it from him and tells Bree their friendship is over.

This changes, however, after Carlos kills Gaby's stepfather, who returned to Wisteria Lane and was tormenting her. The two appear to have reconciled after Bree agreed to protect Carlos. A month after killing Gabrielle's evil stepfather Alejandro, Carlos is not able to fall asleep. He starts to feel extremely guilty about the murder. He starts to get extremely angry at everything and everyone, this includes yelling at Juanita even after she made Carlos and Gaby breakfast.

Carlos starts heavily drinking which concerns his wife. Carlos also starts spending a lot of time with Susan about the murder because they both feel extremely guilty. Mike and Gaby start to think Susan and Carlos are having affairs.

Gaby later makes Carlos go to rehab after his drinking gets to bad. Carlos eventually checks himself out and gets drunk. Gaby later forces him to go back to rehab or she will leave him and takes Juanita and Celia with her. While Carlos is gone, Gaby gives their living room a complete makeover to help Carlos forget about Alejandro.

After Carlos returns home from rehab, he decides to turn his life around by quitting his job to help recovering alcoholics turn their lives around. Carlos also gets the Solis's a cat named Rufus. Juanita nearly falls off the roof trying to get Rufus but she manages to get back inside.