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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Kathleen Gati Returns as Liesl Obrecht and Gets the Lowdown on Anna; Will She Be the One to Reveal Cassius is Not Nathan?

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Liesl Obrecht (Kathleen Gati) is back in Port Charles and not a minute too soon! She may hold the answers to, or could upend Cassius (Ryan Paevey) impersonating his dead twin brother, Nathan West, and could help Anna Devane (Finola Hughes), who’s paranoia over Cesar Faison being alive is getting worse! All this, according to Anna’s doctors in France, and her bff Felicia Scorpio (Kristina Wagner).  

On the Friday, April 24 episode of General Hospital, Felicia met with Liesl to discuss how Anna is getting mentally worse and believes her doctors are receiving orders from Faison to gaslight her. Felicia asks Liesl for her help and would like her to talk to Anna, but Liesl says given their past history, her presence would make matters worse. Liesl does admit that it bothers her that Anna believes Faison is alive. Felicia asks if that’s possible.

When talks turns to her children, Obrecht says she hopes for the sake of her children that Faison is dead. But does she know she gave birth to twins, Cassius and Nathan? Has she known from Cassius’ arrival in Port Charles, he was pretending to be Nathan or has she been duped as well? And if so, did Faison take her other son, and she never knew he existed?

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There is so much to be revealed and it seems like Obrecht has to be the one to figure out that Cassius is impersonating Nathan. Later in the episode, Josslyn (Eden McCoy) ran into Liesl and asks her if it’s possible Nathan is impersonating Faison. All this, has to raise suspicious for Liesl. How much will she be willing to help Anna? Will Faison be alive? Will she realize she had another child?

On her return, fan favorite, Kathleen Gati, spoke to Soap Opera Digest and expressed, “Of all the characters I have played throughout my career, Liesl Obrecht is by far my favorite, and I miss her when I am away too long. So it’s great to be back! Needless to say, I can’t wait to see what the writers have in store for her!”

You can check out Obrecht’s conversation with Felicia marking the most recent return of Kathleen Gati.

Now weigh-in: Do you think Obrecht knew at all about Cassius? Will she figure out that he is impersonating her other son, Nathan? Did she know all along? Is Faison alive? Share you theories via the comment section below.

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How is it that all these women can give birth to twins and not know it? First it was Susan Moore. And her baby daddy was a doctor, for Hell’s sake. I’ll give Nina a pass because she was a literal vegetable when her babies were born, so that’s a valid excuse not to remember.

But Liesl Obrecht? It doesn’t fit. She’s no dummy, and she was 666% aware of what Faison was capable of. To the extent that she let her sister raise Nathan, and lied to him about who his father was until very shortly before he died. If my Fuzzy Devil Memory serves me correct, Nathan never actually met Faison until the day dear old daddy shot him in the chest. (Oh and by the way… how exactly does Cassius Muhammad Ali Clay Faison have those two bullet hole scars in his chest, where Nathan got shot? That seems a little TOO much commitment to method acting, to take actual bullets for cosmetic purposes, right? )

As it happens, it wasn’t really all that safer for Nathan to be raised by Liesl’s sister, considering she made her own daughter a vegetable for 20 years. But after all this, we’re supposed to believe Dr. Ooblech let Faison steal one of her kids, which would pretty much negate the whole point of what she did to “protect” Nathan?

Do these writers even bother with the history of this show any more?

In a word, “No!” Love your commentary here, Satan. Continuity went out the window in soaps decades ago. I cannot pinpoint the exact moment, but history has been ignored, besmerched, and rewritten countless times in soaps. It seems that more than half the adult population of soap characters have had children who come into their lives as adults without the parent ever knowing about the birth. Add to that the unrelenting trope of long-lost siblings or evil twins.

And as much as I like DOOL, bringing back people from the dead has jumped the shark — also long ago! What’s happening with the character of Lexie is insane. Pods should be for peas and astronauts, not the previously “deceased.”

James…oh, I agree with you, Brother…about DOOL’S Lexie, I mean. To me, there was no need for the show to bring Lexie back. At all.

Have a good one, Brother.

oh satan, I know you don’t have faith because well your Satan, but yes, these twin plots are something else and you have to suspend with normal logic to maintain your sanity but to answer a few of your questions, I don’t know or remember everything in details but if my bad memory serves me here a little, Susan Moore did know she gave birth to twins, Jason and drew, and if I remember correctly heather was in on her given up one to be raised by the same women who raised Franco. As for Liesel not being aware she gave birth to twins maybe they (Faison) told her one of the twins died, hmmm but then Liesel did the same and gave Nathan up? ok, yeah I see where your coming from with the writers messy revising their own history, whats the saying to many chefs(writers) in the kitchen rewriting the show. they did this with Anna twin Alex, on AMC Alex and Anna got along and Alex wasn’t really the “evil” twin, imagine that twins that were both good, then GH decided that Alex was evil yet never explained the shift in the character and why she turned on Anna. As for Anna, I hope she’s duping everyone and setting up to take down this silly evil villains once and for all and I hope Felicia is helping her out because one plot point that upsets me is how easily both Felicia an Mac believed Anna had gone cray cray.

Unless they retconned it again, Susan wasn’t aware she had a twin. As a money grabbing opportunist, she would’ve never given up another Quartermaine heir.

Nathan’s origin story was that Faison didn’t know Obrecht was pregnant. Liesl arranged for her sister Magda (Madeline) to raise Nathan as her own. Her sister was no saint, and has a history of baby market shenanigans, so it’s more likely Madeline did the same thing as Heather and gave the twin away.

What needs explanation is Cassius’ interaction with Cesar. Lots of explaining to do.

She is a great actress, and it is a great character, They need to use her more.

agreed! Love seeing her act on the show. She’s a good actress!

There may have been another retcon on Friday’s episode when Liesl said “the entire time I was married to Cesar”. Liesl’s been on the show since 2012 and that’s the first time it’s been mentioned Obrecht and Faison were married.

As twins run in the Westbourne-Obrecht family, wait until 2036 when it’s retconned to reveal that Amelia has a never before seen twin.

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Soap Alums Remembered During In Memoriam Segment at 78th Emmy Awards; Patrick Muldoon Omitted

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In Memoriam Emmys 2026

During last night’s 78th annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, as it does every year, the television academy paid tribute to those in the industry that they’ve lost over the last year; since the previous Emmys held each year in September.

Starting with an emotional tribute to the late Catherine O’Hara by three of her co-stars, Schitt’s Creek’s Annie Murphy and Dan Levy and Home Alone’s Macaulay Culkin, the segment then dovetailed into Noah Kahan performing “Bridge over Troubled Water” as the faces and the names of those being remembered were shown on the screen.

Daytime soap alums, who either stayed in the genre for the majority of their career, or went on to primetime success as well, were honored including: Anthony Geary (Luke, GH), Hayden Panettiere (Sarah, OLTL, Lizzie, GL, Juliette, Nashville), James Van Der Beek, (Dawson, Dawson’s Creek, and Stephen, ATWT), Gil Gerard (Alan, The Doctors), June Lockhart (Mariah, GH), Patricia Crowley (Mary, Port Charles and GH), Randolph Mantooth (Clay/Alex, Loving and The City, and Richard, GH) and Jon Cypher (Alex, ATWT and Arthur, Santa Barbara).

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THOSE HONORED AND THOSE WHO WERE NOT

However, in a glaring omission, the producers of the In Memoriam failed to include Days of our Lives beloved star, Patrick Muldoon who played the OG Austin Reed and also Richard Hart on Melrose Place. Muldoon passed away in April of this year at 57.

After Kahan concluded his performance, a special tribute to Rob Reiner began with Jamie Lee Curtis taking to the stage to share some warm words about her late friend.

In a ironic and sad twist, Curtis shared ,“Last week, Robbie won an Emmy for guest actor in a comedy series for his beautiful work on The Bear, and he now holds the record of 48 years for the longest gap between acting Emmys, which was previously held by his father Carl Reiner, at 37 years.”

Reiner, who along with his wife, Michele Reiner were killed by their son, Nick Reiner, is currently awaiting a decision if he will stand trial. Prosecutors on Tuesday, shared they will not seek the death penalty if he is convicted at trial, but instead life in prison. Curtis said of Rob, “He was generous and kind and funny as hell, and a friend to all. We all miss Rob and Michele and all those we lost this year.” The Emmys then faded to black and went to commercial break.

So, were you happy to see those who you know from their work in soap operas included in the 2026 In Memoriam tribute at the Primetime Emmys? Share your thoughts in the comment section. But first, in case you missed it, you can watch it below.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Jason and Britt Break Up After Realizing They Can’t Trust Each Other

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Trust issues were cited as the reason for the break-up of Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) and Dr. Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) on the Monday, September 14 episode of General Hospital, ending the their complicated romance once and for all.

The episode began with the pick-up of Jason and Britt’s argument over Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) at the Quartermaine boathouse. Britt is in disbelief that Jason continues to take Anna’s side, and that he will not back her up as her witness, as she wants to report Anna’s attempted murder of her to the PCPD.

Jason tells Britt that Anna had been pushed to the brink through the mental torture she’d endured while held captive at Wyndemere, and accused Britt of doing nothing to save her, when she knew exactly what was going on as she was at Wyndemere as well. Britt told Jason that she’d been a victim of Sidwell and Cullum too, and by the time she figured out what was happening to Anna, they had moved her somewhere else.

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BELIEF SYSTEM BROKEN

Then, Jason clearly lets Britt know he doesn’t believe her version of what transpired. An enraged Britt fires back at Jason in disbelief, that he is siding with Anna instead of her, when he was on Mount Emerson and saw for himself how Anna was planning to kill her. Suddenly, Britt wants to know if Jason would have helped Anna cover her tracks, if Anna had killed her.

Next, Jason argued that Britt seemingly needs to believe Anna would have killed her when he knows deep down Anna would never have murdered her. Jason thinks Britt is trying to absolve herself of her own guilt and complicity in keeping Anna locked up.

Britt shouts “You need to believe that! Otherwise, you’d have to admit that your friend is unhinged and dangerous. And she would have killed someone you say you love!” Now at a complete impasse, Britt walks out on Jason realizing they don’t trust each other and calls it quits.

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PICKING UP THE PIECES

Later, Jason finds Carly (Laura Wright) at the Metro Court, and while in an elevator fills her in that he doesn’t trust Britt, and that as much as he loves her, he doesn’t trust her like he does Carly. Britt is back at the hospital.

A concerned Tristan (Dean Geyer) tries to talk to her about what transpired with Anna. However, Britt clams up and walks away from any discussion.

Now in the General Hospital teaser video for the action on Tuesday, September 15,  Jason ask Carly (over beers and a game of pool) “When you lie for a living, how long before you start lying to yourself? Take a look at that below.

Let us know, are you glad that Jason and Britt finally called it quits? What about the reason that the couple broke-up, over Britt knowing about Anna being locked-up at Wyndemere and Jason not willing to back Britt about Anna trying to kill her? Is Tristan the next man for Britt? Let us know your thoughts via the comment section.

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‘General Hospital’ Favorite Kirsten Storms Gives Update on Apartment Break-in That Caused “Unnecessary Custody Case”

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Kirsten Storms (Maxie, GH) is sharing more details on the December 2025 apartment break-in and the difficulties she has had with the Tennessee police, plus how the original incident, according to the actress, played into her ex-husband, Brandon Barash (ex-Johnny, GH and ex-Stefan/Jake, Days) filing a restraining order against her and the custody case involving their daughter, Harper.

The popular actress had played GH’s Maxie Jones on and off since 2005, after coming to the ABC soap opera following her run as Belle Black on Days of our Lives. As GH fans know, Storms last appearance on General Hospital was back in March of this year. In recent episodes, the character of Maxie was written-out along with her entire family and Spinelli (Bradford Anderson) and relocated to Australia.

Now, Kirsten explained via Instagram and with shared photo of the December police report, which indicated Storms had placed a call to the Franklin Police Department to report a break-in at her Tennessee apartment. The report states that Storms was away from her apartment for about a week in August of 2025, and when she returned home, she found damage to the deadbolt on her door, as well as other missing items.

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KIRSTEN STORMS SPEAKS OUT ABOUT CUSTODY CASE OVER HER DAUGHTER

Then, Storms fired back at naysayers in the ongoing comments on her break-in situation, stating: “Please do not tell me (or ask me) not to post these things. I’m hoping this is the last item I post (of the documents I have on the break-in at my old apartment in Tennessee). I’m only doing this because that lead to an **unnecessary custody case** being filed against me.”

It was back in April that TMZ learned, through obtaining of court documents, that Barash cited Storms for having mental health issues so he filed a restraining order against her. Kirsten expressed in her latest post, that she was asked to meet with a mediator in the custody case for her daughter, not a judge, and that her mental health issues were being used against her instead of people focusing on the break-in.

Storms added, “However, the break-in … followed by a ‘custody case/now mediation request’ where the break-in was the main reason for the initial custody filing, was unwarranted.”

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CHECK

Kirsten also shared on her health status,”I have always been proactive about my medical care (all aspects), as well as Harper’s (<—— the MOST important person to me). I’ve also been attempting to get checkups with a neurosurgeon/neurologist for my brain aneurysm and brain cysts. And tbh, I have a psychologist that I’ve seen for years, who I’m kinda attached too. She’s f’ing incredible and understands the kind of therapy sessions I need. Addressing what should NOT be the focus (mental illness), is frustrating for me”

You can check out Kirsten’s latest post on the custody matter, and her ongoing battle over the apartment break-in while in Tennessee below.

Now let us know, glad to hear from Kirsten and hear more of her side of the custody story and her ongoing issues with this apartment break-in? Let us know via the comment section below, and if you miss seeing her on-screen on General Hospital and hope one day she will come back.

 

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