General Hospital
General Hospital’s Avery Pohl Talks on The Two Sides of Esme, and the Character Being In Love with Spencer
If you caught Friday’s episode of General Hospital, it was a major turning point for the character of Esme Prince (Avery Pohl). Revisiting Wyndemere, she remembers her past, all of it, including: her misdeeds, machinations, and let’s not forget taping Joss (Eden McCoy) and Cameron (William Lipton) having sex, and setting up Trina (Tabyana Ali) as the perpetrator.
After recalling being held hostage by Nikolas, her escape, and nearly killing Liz (Rebecca Herbst), Esme falls to the ground in both remembrance, defiance and shock. What will happen next? Will Esme return to her old self scheming and lying? Will she be a combo of the malicious Esme, but have a heart of gold when it comes to baby Ace? And now that she recalls her past, how will Esme feel about Spencer (Nicholas Chavez)?
Michael Fairman TV caught up with Avery Pohl during last week’s Daytime Emmy celebrations, and while she couldn’t spoil the big reveal, she did clue us into a few key points.
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Pohl shared her thoughts on how GH kept Esme on the canvas, when it seemed like the character was painted into a corner. Eventually, the writers chose to have Esme have amnesia, although many along the way thought Esme was just playing everybody to escape being locked up in the slammer or put away at Ferncliff.
“I think it was a really fine line that we had to sort of dance around of what are we gonna do with her,” Pohl expressed. “It’s been really fun. I feel very lucky to get to play sort of two characters in one be cause she started out so difficult, shall we say. And then she had become quite ‘nice’, along the way. I don’t know where it all goes from here, but at least, she developed a bit of a moral conscience.”
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So, where is Esme’s head at in regards to her ex Spencer Cassadine? Is she wanting the guy back? “Of course! Poor girl is so in love with him,” Pohl answered. “It sort of sucks for her. She has to watch Spencer and Trina right under her nose and in her own home, really just hanging out all the time. That’s gotta be hard for anybody to watch.”
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We can’t help but think a catfight or showdown is about to occur between Esme (with memory in tow) and Trina. Avery teased on working with Tabyana Ali as on-screen rivals: “Oh, we’re besties. It’s great. We just filmed some stuff that I cannot wait for everybody to see. It’s going be so fun. I can’t tell you anything more, unfortunately.”
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From all accounts, Alley Mills is also on her way back on-air as Esme’s biological mother, the cray cray Heather Webber, Pohl shared on working with now Daytime Emmy winner: “I love Miss Alley, and everything I want to talk about I can’t. But I will say, anytime I get to work with her is amazing.”
So, what did you think of Esme remembering her past? Do you think there will be two genuine sides to Esme, the good and the bad that will be displayed … or do you think she will return 100% to her bad self? What about Trina/Spencer/Esme? Now that Esme remembers everything, will she set out to destroy ‘Sprina’? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
Sorry to say … I don’t see the point of this character anymore. She is rarely on. She has become just a distraction and irritation rather than a valid story point. Great actress! Just a bit of sloppy writing making the character SO psychotic SO fast and now having to whitewash and back pedal.
Sloppy perhaps due to strike
She’s on all the time.
Who are you talking about ,Esme or Heather? Esme is on quite a lot, especially lately, a lot going on with her and new stuff coming up.
I agree. The writers wrote her into a corner and then threw motherhood and amnesia at her as some kind of lifesavers. Their first mistake was writing her as a one dimensional, sociopathic villain rather than a spoiled, poor little rich girl. She could have been a young Erica Kane or even a Kendall Hart as played by Sarah Michelle Gellar. Avery has the acting chops to pull off a highly flawed, multilayered character. Instead, they have her going from villain to heroine without any shades of transition to guide viewers through the abject and extreme transformation. With the bitter aftertaste of Esme’s heinous deeds lingering in viewers’ mouths, their palettes were spoiled for saccharine-sweet Esme. At this point going forward, the only way this character will work is if she plays a straight up villain. Failing that, she should be written off the show.
It sort of sucks for her. She has to watch Spencer and Trina right under her nose and in her own home, really just hanging out all the time. That’s gotta be hard for anybody to watch.”
That’s an odd view she has of her character, being that Esme was never in love with Spencer. She only saw him as a means to do her insane father’s bidding.
Further proof was Esme having sex with Spencer’s father to further his sick agenda. The fact is Trina is everything that Esme wants to be. And instead of working towards being a better, human, she decided to target Trina and her best friends in order to destroy Trina and get her out of the way. all because Spencer was/is in love with her. We won’t go into the bigotry behind her actions.
As for the good side verses the bad side, that’s a laughable fallacy. Esme has no good sides. Just because she takes care of her child, has a job & isn’t framing people for crimes they didn’t commit does not make her a good person. Esme is evil through and through and I can’t wait for Trina and Spencer to take her down.
I know a matter of opinion but not so much Trina but her mother is just the worst hypocrite. She treats Trina like a 10 year old. Trina should have dumped Spencer long ago. Still think Ace will turn out being Spencer’s son. Esme setting boundaries I say good for her.
You said it all!
I agree with you and Cole.
Esme Prince almost puts me in the mind of Kay Bennett from Passions where she was crazy in love with Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald but he was too in love with Charity Standish to give HER the time of day. So, she did everything in her power to get rid of Charity by any means necessary (schemes, manipulations, murder, witchcraft etc.)
Esme is a woman in love with another woman man. Esme knowns how to manipulate Spencer feeling for Ace to separate Spencer and Trina. If she can’t have him, she will not allow them to be happy. The green eye monster will return.
Well I think she deserves a chance first if all she’s a wonderful actress and she’s no worse then what Liesel or Britt or Maxie for that matter let’s not forget she seduced Jason by giving him pain pills or Lucky can’t remember now lol and Ava let’s not forget is a stone cold murderer lol.but again I love her character too but Esme reminds me of Andrea Evans character Tina Lord Robert’s from One Life To Live so let’s give her and Avery Pohl a chance
Tina was sexy and sweet with her dirt…. this girl…just dark
I hope they leave her nice…Maybe hook her up with Jocelyn’s friend Matt….
Oh I like that idea
Don’t be ridiculous, Matt is a just a kid , looks and actions compared to Esme who is a woman.
Poor Matt is already struggling with his parents’ acceptance and it’s absolutely a bad idea to hook him up with Esme….He does not need a psycho drama pitch like Esme…..Hate her in good or bad roles.
Who the heck is Matt!? I think you folks mean Adam.
It be fun to see Esme play both sides of good and bad.
Didn’t want her ri remember its going to mess everthing up but i guess writers want to do that
Would like to see Esme and Spencer together and Spencer being Ace’s Dad.
You crazy. His dad is coming back
Yes, Spencer’s dad but he’s not Ace’s dad and if he murdered Austin like I think he did, he’ll be in Penton illegal.
Thank you!!! Also if everyone remembers even Spencer said from the beginning the baby wasn’t his, they hadn’t been together for quite some time. Nikolas definitely has a plan or 20 going on.
Spencer and Trina belong together. If Spencer wanted to be with Esme. He would have not. Gone to Trina’s dorm room. And spent the night outside her dorm room. That’s say how much. He is in love with Trina. Some people want him with Esme. Spencer wants to be with Trina. I believe Ace wants his brother with Trina also. And GH couldn’t even put Spencer and Esme back together. Because they already knew that it wouldn’t work out. Nooooooooooooooo do not let him be Ace’s dad. Let it be someone else. Spencer and Trina. (Yes yes yes. Spencer and Esme. No no no Lots of chemistry with Spencer and Trina. ❤️ these (2) so much. Beautiful couple.
So sick of you brainwashed WOKE grandmas, Spencer should be with Esme or a pretty girl not someone they threw on the show because she’s black. Put her with TJ .
Oh you said it. Trina does not look good with Spencer. He & Esme rock!!!!
Agree!! Put Spencer with Esme and Ace. A much better fit and let him be Ace’s Dad. Trina needs to move on, no chemistry with him.
yes
YES. I literally fast forward anything with Trina. Forced. She takes way too much airtime.
Talented actress for sure but she has little objectivity and lack of insight into her own character. Esme is incapable of love. When she was with Spencer, she was emotionally abusive and manipulative toward him. Then later she taped his two childhood friends having sex for the very first time and released it to the world. She drugged Trina and framed her for her crime. Yes, the poor writing did paint Esme into a corner and the convenient amnesia was a pathetic and lazy attempt to rectify it. Esme has never received her comeuppance and her victims never received justice. The amnesia storyline yielded zero viewer satisfaction.
Bobbie
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Id like to see her with Spencer. Spring was fun at first. I thought they were great, but now she’s gotten to act too much like her mom and I’m all set with that, meaning Trina. Of course it would become boring if there wasn’t the chaos of all of this. And then who would watch the show?
Why would you want to put that sicko with Spencer? She emotionally abused him when they were together, tortured his friends, drugged the love of his life, and then framed her for revenge porn.
I can’t wait to see how esme seems to be.. I love ❤️ the nice side of her, and I’m glad she remembered what she did, maybe she’ll apologize to everyone
This is a soap opera in its truest sense. But there’s enough drama going on to encourage Overkill. For her sake and all the viewers she should end her existence, so we can focus on baby Ace and the continuing drama play out without what would be insignificant, as well as dull and annoying.
The writer’s have exhausted this. Put her to rest and focus on the more favorable characters. The young children like Ace and the other’s is the “FUTURE”
So you want to watch babies until they’re all grown up on General Hospital? I’ll stick with what they have going on now
I want Esme to continue on the path to redemption bur she should avoid Heather since she already revealed in their last encounter that she’s not Esmes mother I believe Steven Lars Webber is Esmes father which makes 70 yr old Heather her grandmother.
So Heather isn’t her mother? I must of missed something dang it
I don’t ever miss an episode of General Hospital & I never saw Heather reveal any such thing! Heather’s her mom, Ryan’s her dad!
Let the games begin , she is an amazing actor !
I think Esme remembering her past give give light to her exhibiting both the good and the bad sides of the character. Since this is a soap opera I’m all for seeing how this will evolve. And yes she is an excellent actress.
But what about all the slasher murders! That was never resolved.
Esme might apologize to everyone she did wrong and changed for her baby sake she loved her baby I mean when she was the nice person or she might keep being nice as the nice person and still be bad behind close door s well am just assuming such things because we don’t
I just assumed those things because the writers will do what they do but we just giving our veiew
No she won’t because Spencer and Trina love is to strong
Unless something happens to Trina, like what happened to Scott’s one true love Allison from hit show Teen Wolf!
Not true, especially with Trina’s pain in the butt mother, sticking her nose into everything and everyone’s business. The other day at their home when she was pawing and petting Trina like some damn pet made me sick. She’ll really have a stroke when her “baby girl” turns up pregnant.u
Thank you Thank you yes it is.
This is Kevin and Ryan except with split personality
Id like to see her with Spencer. Spring was fun at first. I thought they were great, but now she’s gotten to act too much like her mom and I’m all set with that, meaning Trina. Of course it would become boring if there wasn’t the chaos of all of this. And then who would watch the show?
I 100% agree.
I hope she stays nice
I think Ryan programmed her to play Nicholas and do bad act to Ava
Well, I guess if Ezme really is a changed person, Tuesday’s episode will probably show her going to the police station to confess her disgusting crimes and taking her punishment like the reformed character says she is. I mean that’s what a contrite, remorseful person would do, right? After months of passive-aggressive behavior toward her victims, she decides to apologize to Trina and promptly gets her memory back. How convenient! Can’t wait for this character to get away from Spencer & Trina fro good!
It’s definitely going to interesting and frustrating to watch, lol. First, she’s not going to let anyone know because Duh reasons… just leave Spencer and Trina alone with the exception of giving them an exciting storyline together, please!
I’m just excited to see how this storyline is going to finally play out! It’s been a long time coming!
I think she has wanted to be better then she was and I think it will turn out that Spencer really is aces father. She will still do a few underhanded things maybe not illegal but still wrong things to get Spencer back
Even if Esme remembers, she could stay good for her son and Spencer. I think they have some feelings there, they could make a nice little family.
No it wouldn’t work. If Spencer wanted to be with Esme. He would have not gone to Trina’s dorm room. And asked her for his forgiveness. We all know. When they were in NYC. She put that LOVE SPELL on him. Now he is hooked. He has confess that he has never Loved anyone liked that before he met Trina. So that mean Trina is the world to him. And when she for gave him for acting like a blank. We all know what happened next in her dorm room. Esme had Spencer didn’t work out. Now he is with Trina. Yes I’m Happy for them.
Let her good sidecwin over evil, writers. I know Spencer has buried his feelings for Esme, but deep down, his love for her is still alive.
Please—nuTrina is too wishy-washy for sexy Spencer.
I hope Avery has a long career on GH. Her scenes with Genie Frances and Nancy Lee Grahn make give her character the redemption Esme needs
Esme should team up with wacked out, reborn Helena Cassidine, Charlotte. What a wonderfully wicked pair they could make.
I think this is about to be the Nell story all over again. Most of the time no one ever completely change for the best. But believe or not there are some people in the real world that do. I’m actually tired of the bad Esme. Let her make a real change.
I think she will try to destroy Soencer and Trina’s relationship.
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Kelly Sullivan Gives High Praise to ‘General Hospital’s’ Maura West Recalling When Ava Shot Connie (Exclusive)
It was just over 13 years ago on General Hospital when Ava Jerome (Maura West) shot and killed Kate Howard/Connie Falconeri (Kelly Sullivan) in an effort to keep her quiet from revealing that Derek Wells was actually Ava’s back-from-the-dead brother, Julian Jerome (William deVry). It’s a crime that somehow Ava never has quite paid for either.
The episode back aired on August 13, 2013 and viewers had to say goodbye to Kelly Sullivan who played Kate and her alter, Connie. In the story, just before she died, Kate/Connie scrawled the letters AJ in her own blood, initially making the PCPD and Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) think that it was AJ Quatermaine (Sean Kanan) who did the deed.
Now, Sullivan recalled sharing scenes with the three-time Daytime Emmy-winning West, during a live conversation on You Tube’s Michael Fairman Channel. Kelly was the special guest talking about her recent return to the soaps in her new role as The Bold and the Beautiful’s Darcy Dylan.
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF MAURA WEST
Speaking of her final GH scenes and working with Maura West, Sullivan gave her then GH co-star major props. “If you’re going to be shot by somebody (on the soaps), you want to be shot by Maura West, c’mon!”
Maura West debuted back in May 2013 as Ava, and Sullivan remembered when the As the World Turns favorite began on GH. “I remember when Maura West first arrived at GH. She walked in with this cute little bob (hairdo) and she’s just delicious,” shared Sullivan.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Kelly revealed more about Maura, adding “I think she’s amazing! I remember right before I left the show, someone suggested, and I would still love to do this with her, if she ever want to, but someone suggested that they wanted to direct the stage play A Streetcar Named Desire with Maura and I, where I would play Stella and she would play Blanche! Wouldn’t that be great?”
Speaking of the Ava/Connie showdown scenes, Sullivan expressed, “On television and on General Hospital specifically, Maura West is able to play a character who does the most horrendous things and you still care about her and that’s the mark of a really great actor. In other words, you’re able to be liked in the midst of the most horrendous things, and as a performer not shying away from that, and to just have the courage to do what’s on the page (in the script).”
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KELLY SULLIVAN PARTING THOUGHTS AS SHE LEFT GENERAL HOSPITAL
Kelly also shared her sentiments when she walked off the set of General Hospital after her run back in August of 2013. “I really was honored. Every day I would go to work and I would say a little prayer, which is I want to do justice for my character, explained Kelly. “It’s between me and my character. I get to walk this path with her and to leave the show on that note, which is, I left every out there. I just gave it my all and again what an honor it was to play Kate/Connie.”
You can catch the full conversation with Kelly where she talks about her time on General Hospital, The Young and the Restless where she played Sage Warner and now The Bold and the Beautiful below.
So, do you remember the Ava and Connie scenes where Ava shot and killed her? What did you think of Kelly Sullivan’s sentiments about Maura West? Share your thoughts via the comment section. But first, watch the reveal where Ava recalls murdering Connie below!
The question of will Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) stay awhile at General Hospital after his recent extended hiatus from the show earlier this year, has reportedly been answered.
TMZ via court documents obtained in Burton’s ongoing legal battle with his ex-wife Sheree Gustin, shared that Steve actually inked a new three year deal with the ABC soap opera back in June.
That is significant because it was June when Burton returned back to work as Jason. In addition, the court filing confirmed that Burton had already moved back to California from Tennessee.
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STEVE’S HIATUS AND HIS RETURN TO PORT CHARLES
GH fans will recall, it was back in February of 2026, that Burton announced via his Instagram that he was stepping away from his role of Jason Morgan for short break and pointed to wanting to spend quality time with his new wife, Michelle Lundstrom Burton with whom he tied the knot back on May 17, 2025.
Steve expressed at that time, “I’m newly married and looking forward to spending some quality time with my family.” It was back on March 25 that viewers saw Jason carted away by the WSB after taking the fall for Rocco Falconeri (Finn Carr) who shot then WSB Director Ross Cullum (Andrew Hawkes).
Burton returned to work on June 1, and due to General Hospital taping roughly six weeks ahead of air, made his on-screen comeback on the July 13 episode.
GOING FOR GOLD AT THE UPCOMING DAYTIME EMMYS
Then, Steve and his enduring fans got an extra special treat on the same day, when it was revealed on Extra that he was nominated for the upcoming 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Daytime Drama Series category.
Steve previously won in the Supporting Actor category for his work as General Hospital’s Jason in 1998 and as The Young and the Restless’ Dylan McAvoy in 2018.
Now with Jason and Britt’s (Kelly Thiebaud) relationship seemingly hitting the skids, plus Jason’s commitment to staying out of mob life to focus on being present for his son Danny Morgan (Asher Antonyzyn), what does the future hold for the fan favorite character? Stay tuned.
So, happy to hear that Steve Burton signed a new three year deal with General Hospital? Knowing that, what storyline would you like to see Jason get involved and with who? Share your thoughts and theories via the comment section.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Jason and Britt Reach an Impasse; Is This the End of Their Relationship?
On the Friday, September 11 episode of General Hospital, Jason (Steve Burton) and Britt’s (Kelly Thiebaud) relationship becomes strained to potentially the point of no return.
Things take a turn when an unglued Britt having been traumatized by almost being killed by Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) asks Jason to back her up with the PCPD when she reports Anna for attempted murder.
However, Jason told Britt, he can’t. Jason shares that he does not believe Anna would have gone through with shooting her. Therefore, Britt was not in any real imminent danger. Britt is flabbergasted and hurt that Jason is refusing to tell the police what he actually witnessed for himself on Mount Emerson.
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BRITT WANTS BACK UP FROM JASON
Jason counters that he can’t believe that Britt would want Anna punished. or sent to prison, or a mental facility after the trauma she endured while being locked up and mentally tortured while at Wyndemere.
He asks Britt, “How could you even say that you want her locked up or prosecuted for what she did when you knew she was being held prisoner and you did nothing to save her?” Britt is stunned by Jason’s response.
Coming up, official General Hospital spoilers share that on the upcoming Monday, September 14 episode, Jason confides in Carly (Laura Wright), while Britt is stung. In the video preview that aired at the end of the Friday, September 11 episode for this coming Monday, Britt says to Jason, “You don’t believe me. Do you?”
General Hospital head scribes, Chris Van Etten and Elizabeth Korte previously teased in their fall preview of the soap, “Britt and Jason have come a long way and fought a lot of enemies to be together. But the most stubborn obstacle to their happiness isn’t without, it’s within. Decisions Britt made to stay alive while under Cullum’s thumb will come back to haunt her and may prove too difficult for this unlikely couple to survive.”
So, what do you think will happen? Will Jason and Britt break-up over Britt’s lies and Jason’s unwillingness to report Anna’s crime against her? Do you want Jason and Britt to go their separate ways? If they do, will Britt become romantically involved with Dr. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) ? If so, who do you pair Jason with? Anyone? Weigh-in via the comment section.
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