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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Everything Willow Said to Drew; How His Machinations and Her Motivations Drove Her to Extremes

By Michael Fairman

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The Friday, February 6 episode of General Hospital gave viewers all the motivations behind Willow’s (Katelyn MacMullen) scheme, when all the hated, betrayal, anguish she feels towards her husband, Drew (Cameron Mathison) came spewing out as she happily told Drew, who is unable to speak or move and is trapped in a bed, that she shot him and how she learned to fire a gun while in the cult Dawn of Day. Willow went on to say, that she was driven to shoot Drew, because, “It was my only way to ever really be free of you!”

What follows below is Willow’s entire explanation to Drew, which hit all the notes in the story thus far, complete with flashbacks, as Drew, who is finally shut up, has no choice but to listen to Willow’s venom as the GH writers brought us full -ircle to how Willow was driven to this point. First, Willow how finding out about Drew’s affair with her mother, Nina, affected her.

Willow begins, “It was a major shock and a huge betrayal, but I really thought that it was something I could recover from, but I needed to do it alone without you hovering. And honestly, I needed to take a step back, breathe, and concentrate on getting my children. I was living with Elizabeth. I was working, I was doing everything possible to show the court that I’m a stable, loving mother who deserved my children. But I just had one problem that would not go away. And yes, Drew, I know you would’ve helped me with it, but you see, you were the problem.”

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OVER THE EDGE

“I begged you to leave me alone, and you just wouldn’t listen. And if I couldn’t get you to leave me alone, I knew I was never going to have a chance of getting my children back. And you knew that! You knew what Michael’s terms were and you just wouldn’t back off.  Something had to change. I was desperate. I didn’t know what else to do. So I went to the Quartermaines and I got the gun from Edward’s study. I didn’t even know if I could bring myself to use it. I just knew that I needed to have something, some way to get free. I really scared myself that day. I had already lost myself. I was going to lose my kids maybe forever, but I would’ve done anything not to cross that line. But then Judge Heran was murdered.”

“You saw me talking to Chase, doing that thing you always do when you get threatened by something.  He had talked to Judge Heran for me, and she told him that in her courtroom I was the key to getting my kids back. If I showed that I was stable and working, I could get them back without your money, your power, or your congressional influence. Because, I was enough without you. I hadn’t been told that I was enough for anything in so long, and then Judge Heran was dead. The woman gave me a lifeline to my kids without you and she was gone. Did you kill her …. or did you have someone else do it!? You are capable of killing Judge Heran. You are capable of anything. So long as it keeps me dependent on you, because that’s what this whole thing has been about, right? Manipulating me, using my children in any way, you need it to keep me needing you tied to you. Well, all of that ends now!”

“I probably could have detached myself enough to keep things from escalating to this point. But it wasn’t. You used my kids to hold onto me and you hurt them in the process. You twisted Wiley up more than once and had him in tears. I’m his mother! Did you think I just forget that, or did you think that I would see things the same way you did? My child has collateral damage a means to an end. When I flew to Germany to see Michael, you said you supported me, but you sabotaged me!”

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“You paid off the receptionist and made her say that Michael didn’t want to see me, didn’t you? You then set up Wiley, my sweet little boy, to hear that his father didn’t want him anymore. You knew that would make Michael furious and you knew that I would defend you because I could never, ever have imagined that you would do something right. You never loved me, you never loved my kids. You just wanted to have me so that you could get back at Michael and the Quartermaines for pushing you out of their family. So you systematically destroyed every part of my life so that I would be isolated and have nothing but you and that is why I shot you. My only regret is that you didn’t die!”

WRONG-WAY CHASE

Later, Chase (Josh Swickard) showed up at Drew’s testing the key on Michael’s (Rory Gibson) key ring that opens the front door at Drew’s. Willow and Chase talk and she plays him, too. Chase tells Willow not to trust Michael. When Chase returns to the Quartermaines, he plants Michael’s key chain on the floor near the counter as Wiley (Viron Weaver) sees what Chase is up to.

At the end of the episode, Willow informed Drew that he hadn’t had a stroke. Taking out a syringe she revealed that she’d drugged him, and will continue to do so to keep him in current state. She explained that she plans to use his money and influence to forge a new life for herself with her kids, so she needed him to stay on this medication as she injects the meds into Drew’s IV while he looks on bewildered, stuck, shocked, and unable to communicate except by blinking his eyes.

Katelyn MacMullen turned in one of her best performances to date, as the writers finally did a deep-dive explanation on why Willow was motivated to do what she did, and that she had put two and two together for a very long time. This was a woman driven to the extreme after watching any of her power eaten alive by this arrogant controlling and devious man. Now the question becomes,  how far will she get with her plan? Stay tuned.

So, what did you think about Willow’s monologue on why she shot Drew and has put him in Locked-In syndrome-like state? Were you happy that she had connected the dots and got payback on Drew? Since Willow is now revealed as very calculated, and knows what she is doing, will she eventually be sent to prison or a sanitarium? Share your thoughts via the comment section below.

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I agree this was her finest performances. I was thinking how many pages of dialogue she must have had for that one episode. I loved that it made me feel like I was watching Kathy Bates in “Misery.” I was hoping Chase would overhear everything she said to Drew. I am afraid this is the beginning of the end of Chase and BLQ.

I’d love to see Katelyn submit these scenes to the Emmy Awards.

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This story is over the top even for me. Up until now I thought Heather Webber had been “GH’s” greatest pyscho. The GH wrirters are really going very far with this story!

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She’s his number one fan! And yes, Katelyn is really a damn good actress. It’s funny, just as I liked Drew better as a villain, I also like Willow better as a villain.

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Agreed. If 2025 was Cameron’s time to shine, 2026 is turning out to be Katey’s.

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Willow’s explanation of why she shot Drew almost made sense. She doesn’t know that Drew DIDN’T kill the judge, and given the timing, he was as good of a suspect as anybody. Of course she’s completely clueless to the fact that the judge was in Sidwell’s pocket all along.

But the big plot hole in the story obviously, is she brags about her gun knowledge, having learned how to shoot in Shiloh’s “Dawn of the Dead” cult (or whatever it was called). And her medical training as a nurse would certainly inform her as to where to shoot somebody to kill them… major organs, arteries where they could bleed out quickly, etc.

But with all that knowledge, Willow shot him twice from behind at point blank range, and did only relatively minor damage? She claims she was shooting to kill, so it wasn’t intended as a “warning shot”, hoping he would get his dragonshit together, or whatever.

I’m all for Willow tormenting Drew for a while. Just enough with trying to frame Mikey for it. Willow’s the one who ended their marriage. Mikey didn’t do anything wrong there… only had his drunken one night stand with Sasha AFTER finiding out about WIllow & Drew.

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The last part especially. Michael was utterly soul and heart crushed upon seeing the video of Willow and Drew on the floor of the nursery having sex. Viewers have never really gotten to see Michael process his grief or Willow apologize. We got the moms ( Carly&Nina) and Drew acting as middleman translators but those two didn’t get any time alone together to just talk. Then the fire happened. And so Willow setting Michael up, the injured party, isn’t really bringing viewers satisfaction.

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Willow is nutter than a fruit cake, she to be locked in a phsyc ward

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This was great television great soap opera I loved it

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Jason and Britt Reach an Impasse; Is This the End of Their Relationship?

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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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Kearran Giovanni Debuts on ‘General Hospital’ as Anna Devane’s New Therapist

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September 10, 2026

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Kearran Giovanni

If Anna Devane’s (Finola Hughes) new therapist on General Hospital looks familiar to you, it’s because actress Kearran Giovanni, who plays Dr. Nichols, previously played a doctor on One Life to Live!.

Viewers tuning-in to the Thursday, September 10 episode of GH got their first look at Dr. Nichols who has been brought in to help Anna recover from her PTSD and trauma following the reveal that she has been suffering from a break in reality since before being put in mental health facility in France, after being gaslighted by Cullum and company earlier in the year.

One Life to Live fans will recall that Kearran Giovanni played Dr. Vivian Wright in 2009, and it was then she first worked with current General Hospital EP, Frank Valentini, who at the time was at the helm in Llanview.

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WHERE ELSE HAVE YOU SEEN KEARRAN GIOVANNI?

Giovanni appeared on OLTL in the recurring role through 2012 and in the final ABC episode of the beloved series was the the ob/gyn who delivered Destiny Evans (Shenell Edmonds) and Matthew Buchanan’s (Eddie Alderson) baby into the world, whom they named Drew Buchanan II after Bo Buchanan’s (Robert S, Woods) late son. In addition, Vivian has been dating Shaun Evans (Sean Ringgold).

In addition to One Life to Love, Giovanni has very impressive credits having appeared in numerous TV series and motion pictures including starring in the TNT drama Major Crimes from 2012-18, ABC’s Designated Survivor 2017-19, the CW’s Black Lightning from 2019-20. Most recently, Giovanni appeared on the Fox series, The Resident and has a recurring role on the CW’s crime series, Walker from 202-2024.

HEALING ANNA

On today’s General Hospital, after Anna’s harrowing meltdown where she almost shot and killed Dr. Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) after seeing visions of “Peter August” (Wes Ramsey), Jason (Steve Burton) saved the day and talked Anna down from committing murder. Now, Dr. Nichols was introduced as a valuable staff member at the hospital.  Although, this marked the first time in the history of the show we have heard of her character.

So, do you remember seeing Kearran Giovanni on One Life to Live? Happy to see that Anna may have a qualified therapist in charge of her healing, unless the doctor turns out to be not on the up and up? Let us know your thoughts via the comment section below.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Anna Breaks Down in Front of Jason and Britt After Shots Are Fired

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September 9, 2026

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Finola Hughes

The Wednesday, September 9 episode of General Hospital featured top-notch performances by Finola Hughes and Steve Burton, as Anna holds Jason and Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) at gunpoint on Mount Emerson.

Anna is not in her right mind as hallucinations of Peter (Wes Ramsey) overtake her, egging her on to shoot and kill Britt. Jason begs Anna to put down the gun, but it’s clear Anna is speaking to someone who is not there, but in a direction that is just past Britt.

Suddenly, Anna screams at Britt, “You’re just like your father!” Anna also tells Britt that she knew Britt was aware that she was locked up on Spoon Island and did nothing to save her. Britt turns to Jason and tells him she had no idea Anna was on the Island, “until Cullum showed up in Port Charles.” That declaration gave Jason pause.

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“PETER” TAKES A BULLET

Next, Anna is overcome with angst, filled with tears and screams out, “I won’t let you beat me!” She fires the gun where the imaginary Peter was standing, as Britt screams and Jason dove to cover her. Now completely shaken, Jason took the weapon from Anna and ordered Britt to leave the scene as Anna collapsed in Jason’s arms.

Jason was so concerned for Anna. She reveals she’s been seeing visions of Peter August since France. Jason shared his theory with Anna that she was manifesting her worst fears about Faison. However he knows deep down Anna would never have shot Britt. Jason promises to come back and clean up the area, but would take Anna home first.

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ANNA ADMITS TO EMMA SHE TRIED TO KILL BRITT

At Anna’s, Jason brings her in the front door as Emma is there. Jason tells Emma (Braedyn Bruner) he would like to return and spend the night. A confused and worried Emma get the full story from her grandmother.

Anna explains she tried to kill Britt and she is not as well as she was pretending to be in France. Cut to: Jason cleaning up the site of Anna’s plot against Britt on Mount Emerson. He moves over and finds bullet casings on the ground and examines one of them.

The story climax also signaled the end of the run for Wes Ramsey, who has been showing up on episodes over the last several months as Anna’s dark side conscience. Now that Anna was able to break the psychological hold visions of “Peter” had on her, it ends this latest return of Ramsey’s.

So, what did you think about the scenes between Anna and Jason? Do you think Jason and Britt’s relationship will come to an end now that seemingly Britt revealed she knew Anna was held captive after Cullum came to town? Glad to know Anna won’t be haunted by visions of Peter August anymore? Weigh-in via the comment section below.

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