Mayor. However, when her drinking problem is reported in the press, she is sacked. Sonya turns to gambling, but loses her money. She later remembers that she was the one who crashed Amy's ute into the Erinsborough Backers' injuring Piper Willis (Mavournee Hazel) and David Tanaka (Takaya Honda) and makes a confession to the police. She is then charged. Attempting to get her life back together, she leaves Erinsborough for rehab, but Toadie soon learns that she has checked herself out. She gives Toadie power of attorney and asks him to sell the nursery to pay Leo Tanaka (Tim Kano). Toadie finds Sonya in a caravan with a former drinking friend. He asks Callum to come home and talk with Sonya, who agrees to return home. Sonya and Toadie reconnect via emails. Toadie represents Sonya at her trial, where she receives 240 hours community service. Sonya tells Toadie that she is not ready for them to get back together. But when Sonya thinks that Toadie has feelings for Amy, she agrees to see a relationship counsellor. Toadie begins seeing his own counsellor, who Sonya recognises as her former rehab counsellor and crush Sam Feldman (Alex Tsitsopoulos). When Sam admits his feelings for her, Sonya informs him she only loves Toadie. Toadie asks Sonya to meet him at Lassiters Lake if she wants to reconcile, but she falls from a chair and is knocked unconscious. Susan finds her and she is taken to hospital, where she and Toadie reconcile. Sonya and Toadie both decide that they want another child. Sonya receives a message from Jade, telling her that Zoe's cancer has returned. Sonya leaves for Los Angeles, taking Nell with her, on what was to be her first day of school. When Sonya returns from Los Angeles, she wants to track down Andrea to recover the money she defrauded them of and she does not want another baby. She later decides that she does want another baby and begins IVF, when Sindi Watts arrives with Andrea's baby, Hugo, and says that Toadie is the father. This is confirmed by a DNA test. Sonya is persuaded to abandon the IVF program and raise Hugo as her own. She initially finds bonding with Hugo difficult but welcomes him into the family with a naming day. Sonya asks Paul to find Andrea, and his private detective finds her in a psychiatric facility in Hobart.