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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Kristina Wants to Make Ava Pay: What Do You Think of the Character Shift?
It was harrowing week for General Hospital’s Kristina Corinthos-Davis (Kate Mansi). After a confrontation with Ava (Maura West), she winds up crashing through a window and lands in the Metro Court Pool. Then, once rushed to GH, she loses the baby she has been carrying to term that she has come to love, and is still battling the potential of ever being able to carry a child of her own again.
Meanwhile, there is a the promise and heartbreak for her sister, Molly (Kristen Vaganos). In theory, Kristina was the surrogate for Molly and TJ’s (Tajh Bellow) baby and the original plan was for her to give the baby to the couple for them to raise. As the months progressed, Kristina became deeply attached to the child.
With evidence mounting, Ava is behind bars for ‘pushing’ Kristina out the window or causing her fall, even though viewers saw the confrontation and how Kristina tripped over Cates’ (Adam J. Harrington) duffel bag and somehow flung through a window. On Friday’s August 9th episode of the soap opera, Kristina tells her father, Sonny (Maurice Benard), she wants Ava to pay for what she did to her and her baby. Sonny is concerned about Kristina’s vengeful side emerging.
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Now, viewers are wondering in her grief and despair, how far will Kristina take her revenge? Will we see an ultimate character shift, where the once good girl, becomes so dark that she could ultimately become a mobster in Sonny’s nefarious ‘business’ affairs? Sonny and Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) shared their concerns for their daughter, as Alexis asks Sonny to not take Ava out, in lieu of their daughter’s request.
Kate Mansi, who as usual, has been delivering stellar performances one after the other, spoke to Soap Opera Digest on what to expect from Kristina moving forward after what was a character-defining moment in the loss of her baby.
The actress revealed, “In the scenes and episodes that follow immediately after, there are so many moments where you will start to see Kristina’s whole personality shift in a way that’s like, ‘Oh, this was sort of a loss of innocence and a fall from grace.’ I don’t now if she’s ever going to be the same, and even the scenes she has with her dad, with Sonny, there’s a moment where it’s like, ‘Whoa, is she going to suddenly justify going after people? You see her trying to almost bargain with her loss by seeking revenge and by all these different avenues that feel a bit out of character. Mansi also shared that she is, “loving Kristina’s journey right now.”
As previously announced, the end of this week brought with it the first scripts/stories from the new GH co-head writing team of Chris Van Etten and Elizabeth Korte, along with associate head writer, Cathy LePard. How will they frame Kristina moving forward? Stay tuned.
So, are you looking forward to seeing this darker side of Kristina? Do you hope its only temporary in her grief over the loss of her child? Comment below. But first, check out some key scenes from yesterday’s GH.
Change is good. Kristina is rightfully angry – she is doing everything I might do – questioning “What if I hadn’t gone to see Ava or walked out that door.” She is doing the healthy thing – not bottling it up. I might want Ava dead too. I’m not saying that is what should happen.
The Character is forever changed by the violent turn in her circumstances and the loss of her baby. This change in character direction will provide the new version of Kristina with more of an edge and will lead to better storylines in the future.
That wasn’t just her baby despite her shrieking that possessive pronoun over and over. That was Molly’s, TJ’s and yes, Kristina’s baby. And it was a lousy idea for a pregnant woman in her last trimester to aggressively confront Ava. Ava is guilty of a lot of things but she did not push Kristina out the window.
It’s Kristina’s baby Harry. Technicalities don’t matter. Yes; she was supposedly going to give the baby to Molly but the trajectory of the story up until that point was that she might not have been able to go through with it; she’d obviously developed very maternal feelings and it wasn’t going to be as easy as she thought to just hand her child over to her sister. While Molly grieves again: first finding out she couldn’t have children of her own, then devastated that the first surrogate miscarried (which I still don’t believe. I think that baby will pop up at some point) and now for a third time a baby doesn’t make it to term, Molly’s heart is shattered, too. And yes, that was to be her child and in her heart and mind she was. Still, as Kristina said, it’s her biological child, she carried her child for almost nine months and that bond has got to be stronger than Molly’s. Molly’s is crushing disappointment and despair. Kristina is the one with the biological feelings; one minute her child is in her belly, the next she’s empty. And she carries the weight of guilt and regret in its place.
Ava’s no innocent. She should never have asked Kristina to testify against Sonny; she already caused Kristina harm with giving that recording to gossip man. She knows that Sonny and Kristina are close and the stress that would put Kristina under, and when Kristina came to her room, instead of changing her mind when she saw how upset Kristina was, she antagonized her more by insulting Alexis, and then she put her hand on her. So though she didn’t push her, it was Ava’s fault; from forcing Kristina to testify to antagonizing her further even as their argument escalated.
Disagree. Emotionally speaking, yes, that baby was all three of theirs. Discounting TJ’s and Molly’s loss is a mistake. They had a fully furnished nursery, stuffed animals, baby clothes, etc. It was not just Kristina’s baby to grieve. Ava has done sone horrible things but she did not push Kristina out that window. On another note, Kate’s Kristina is just not resonating. Lexi would have hit it out of the ballpark. I ave no idea they had to replace her.
I didn’t discount Molly & TJ’s anguish. My reply was in reference to Harry saying, “it wasn’t just her baby despite her shrieking that possessive pronoun over and over…” It is KRISTINA who was pregnant, who carried that child inside of her (not to mention it was her child) and with that baby’s death, she was FINALLY able to say out loud that her baby was dead. Until that time, she had to keep hearing that the baby wasn’t hers and she was doing to for her sister which though true, doesn’t negate the fact that it was her baby growing inside of her and she felt the biological loss; she felt the loss of the child that was no longer inside of her being kept safe. She felt the loss that a woman feels when they carry their baby. So those scenes were realistic. She said them out loud to her mom; not to Molly, because she understood that Molly wouldn’t understand and would be hurt by those thoughts.
If you reread my comment to Harry you’ll see I didn’t negate Molly’s loss; her cumulative loss. But I understand why, in the anguishing moments of the baby’s death, she cried about the loss of “her” baby.
I’m loving Kate Mansi as Kristina; I thought she knocked the scenes out of the park. And though I loved Lexi and didn’t think I’d get used to Kate in the role, she’s won me over. Couldn’t stand Haley Pullos on any level so I was thrilled when she was recast. I’m loving Kristen Vaganos as Molly.
I have been surprised there have not been any scenes with Blaze and Kristina since she was taken to the hospital. I’m not sure this helps with getting the audience to be invested in them as a couple.
Completely agree. Really poorly written. I can’t see being invested anymore in them.
It was painful to see Kristina and Blaze part ways but it’s what needed to be done and as far as I’m concerned, I’d like to see mama go right along with her. Seeing as how Blaze fired her, I guess she’ll be staying, along with Sonny’s encouragement to get herself into someone else’s business.
She left me cold. There was nary a tear nor did her face convey emotional angst. When Courtney Hope’s Sally lost her baby on Y& R, I found myself tearing up as she put her heart and soul into that performance. Kristina screamed,” Boo hoo!” while shrieking,” That was MY baby!” felt forced and unnatural. Now, TJ, on the other hand emoted painfully while crying real tears. I loved his scene with Aunt Stella who told him, “ Grief is love with no place to go.”
That WAS a great line from Stella to TJ!
In the “my baby” scenes, I saw Kristina finally free to claim the bond she had for 8 months – the intimacy no one else could know – that she had tried to fight for the sake of Molly and the pledge made to her. I felt her mix of grief, regret, resentment, love, and anger over the loss. I think she would have made good on her promise, once hormones and sisterly love returned to normal after birth.
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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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