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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Willow Spills To Nina and Then Blackmails Her Own Mother
Willow Cain (Katelyn MacMullen) sunk to new lows on the April 14 episode of General Hospital, where after confessing to her mother, Nina Reeves (Cynthia Watros), that she shot Drew (Cameron Mathison) twice in the back out of desperation, she then turned the tables on her.
As Willow explained the events that led up to her taking Edward’s Quartermaine’s gun and firing two shots at her husband, she tells her mother she snapped after learning Judge Heran was murdered who at that time she felt was the only chance of getting her children back.
Next, Nina assumed that Willow felt so guilty about shooting Drew and causing his stroke, that is why she was so insistent being the only person to care. However, Willow corrected her mother. ‘Drew did not have stroke,’ explained Willow. She added that she’s been injecting him with a paralytic drug supplied to her by Jenz Sidwell.
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Nina is stunned and in tears, and asks her daughter, how long she plans on drugging Drew? Willow says she is going to keep it up until she had insurance that no one can come after her, or that no one has any leverage they can use on her. Willow then shocks her mother, telling her she now has leverage on her.
It’s at that point, Nina is clued in. Willow tells her the injection she gave Drew wasn’t pain medication, but the same paralytic drug, she has been giving to him for weeks. Nina realizes her fingerprints are all over the syringe. A manipulative Willow swears she didn’t want to use it against Nina, but she can tell how conflicted her mother is with Jack Brennan making her choose between her and Charlotte Cassadine, so she is making the choice for her. So now, if Nina doesn’t side with Willow, her daughter will make sure she will go down for drugging Drew all these weeks.
At first, Nina is hurt, but then she understands why Willow has gone to such extremes. However, Nina looks at Willow and says, “It’s one thing to shoot Drew but another to keep him trapped inside his own body!”
Willow brings out the tears emphasizing that she would not survive being separated from her children again, so she had to guarantee that she had control over both Drew and Nina. While Willow knows Nina must hate her for this, Nina tries to explain to her daughter that she would be on her side even if Willow wasn’t forcing her to be. Now aware she is all caught up in Willow’s mess, Nina asks her daughter what’s the plan from here?
Looks like Willow is demanding two things from Nina: She wants to be kept updated on Jack Brennan and that the traffic cam footage from the night of Drew’s shooting never sees the light of day. 2) Willow reveals two other people know she shot Drew, but they are keeping it to themselves so far, and and she has to ensure that it stays that way. So, it’s clear Willow knows that Kai and Trina know she is the shooter!
So, what did you think of Willow’s bold move to blackmail her mother to gain leverage over her to now make it seem like it was Nina all along giving a paralytic drug to Drew? Do you see Nina trying to get rid of Kai and Trina to help keep her daughter’s secrets? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
Weeping Willow is now and always has been a selfish, deceitful tramp. She said it herself. She cheated on Chase in order to use Michael. She cheated on Michael in order to use Drew. She got much more than she bargained for with Drew, the self-centered user of all time. I am no Nina fan; but, Nina has gone to the mat for Willow time and time again. Blackmail is how Willow shows her gratitude. The only good thing about her drugging Drew is it shut him up for awhile. Weeping Willow needs to be put behind bars for a good long, long time.
Yeah, it’s not good. There’s nothing likeable about Willow. Even crazy Heather Webber is capable of having some fans because she can be comical at times. I see no way the writers can ever redeem Willow without sending her away for a very long time.
Willow & Sidwell almost have the whole cast caught in their webs. There’s almost no one left unaffected by them. Pretty soon, they’ll somehow be retroactively responsible for Molly’s endometriosis (or its miracle cure). Ridiculous.
The look on poor Nina’s face when she realized Willow was just as mentally warped as every other member of that rotten Westbournne/Faison family tree.
Just wait until she finds out her “brother” Nathan really ain’t Nathan.
Considering Willow has turned against those she claimed to love so many times now, maybe my dog Cerberus might finally get that Nina chewtoy he’s been expecting since 2021?
Willow’s gonna have to drug the whole town pretty soon. Next up: Trina, Kai, Alexis, Diane, Alexis’s assistant, Michael, Nina, Brennan, Sidwell… the list goes on.
wait until micheal finds out wlllow and chase catch hell not to mention tracy she will get chase butt
willow set up kai and sidwell
Maybe she will set up Kai, but Sidwell is the one who provided her with the drug that paralyzed Drew.
I think this time, somehow, some way, this will backfire on Willow. She’s still under Sidwell’s thumb….all looks bleak, but my money is Nina will have the upper hand on this eventually.
I hope so. Nina also knows that Willow was tormenting Sasha by playing cruel games with her baby. I hope Nina tapes Willow telling her she shot Drew and framed her own mother for causing his global paralysis and turn her into the authorities. But then Nina will end up feeling guilty all over again and Willow will use that guilt( as she’s always done) to manipulate her.
It saddens me that the great Cynthia Watros’s only story these last couple of years has been predicated upon earning her petulant, horrid, ungrateful, sociopathic daughter’s love. But Cynthia brings her A game to every curve ball she’s thrown, and will give a performance that evocative of Joan Crawford’s Mildred Pierce. Like Mildred finally did with her daughter Vita, Nina will stand up to Willow and turn her in to the authorities. At least I hope so.
Come on, Nina! Develop a backbone! Consult your Aunt Liesl who saw Willow for who she was from the get go. You deserve better than this insidious, tight lipped daughter in a senatorial pink pant suit. Let her go and set yourself free.
Aunt Liesl’s judgment probably isn’t going to look so good, since we’re now supposed to believe she had twin sons and gave one to her sister, to protect him from his father, but then left the other one with that same father?? And then forgot Cassius Clay Muhammad Ali Faison existed at all, apparently.
Yes, Aunt Liesl’s judgement has been all over the place as far as the current writing is concerned. However, if her niece Nina relays to her how her own daughter is simultaneously setting her up while blackmailing her, Liesl will give her tough love advice. I doubt that will happen. The writing has been disjointed, badly paced, and has been plot driven, not character driven.
I hate that they turned Willow into a psycho like her twin Nelle, but Katelyn is always riveting to watch.
The latest ratings are out for the week of October 26-30, 2026 and the big takeaways include: that CBS daytime’s Beyond the Gates was separated by only 23,000 viewers behind third place (of the soaps) General Hospital! For the last several weeks, Beyond the Gates has been closing the gap on this year’s winner for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series, and continuing to best GH in the key demos.
According to the latest Nielsen ratings breakdown from Soap Opera Network, the final week of October brought Beyond the Gates 1.790 million on average tuning-in and the show set a season high in total viewers. Meanwhile, General Hospital hit a new season low! The long-running ABC soap had 1.813 million for the week, and once again the series did not go over the 2 million mark.
Meanwhile, in the key Women 18-49 demo, Beyond the Gates was firmly ahead of GH with a rating share of 0.21, while General Hospital had 0.17 rating share.Then, in the key Women 25-54 demo, Beyond the Gates was once again ahead of the ABC soap with a ratings share for that demo at 0.30 while GH came in with 0.26.
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In addition and comparatively, Beyond the Gates +22,000 viewers week-to-week, and had the largest gains in viewership year-to-year in daytime TV with +267,000 from this in 2025.. However, General Hospital seems to be going in reverse. The show was down -56,000 viewers week-over-week and down -22,000 year-over-year .
BEYOND THE GATES
Let’s take a look at some of the storylines that had people tuning-in to Beyond the Gates during the ratings week:
Hayley (Marquita Goings) attempted a massive shocker regarding her pregnancy and tried to use it to extract money from Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett). Although, Bill saw right through her game, he demanded a paternity test, and made it clear he has no intention of raising the child—planning instead to pay her off to take the baby and leave. Meanwhile, Hayley confided her plan to her cousin Randy (Maurice P. Kerry).
Jacob Hawthorne (Jibre Hordges) and Naomi Hamilton (Arielle Prepetit) clashed over Jacob’s ongoing investigation into The Impaler, causing significant strain in their marriage. At the same time, Smitty (Mike Manning) considered taking matters into his own hands—including potentially heading to Mexico for evidence—while Martin Richardson (Brandon Claybon) worried about what comes next.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL
Over at General Hospital for the ratings period, the story served up included:
Carly (Laura Wright) and Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) teamed up to investigate what really happened to Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna). Later, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) leads them to Jack’s dead body.
Jude (Wil Traval) dropped a bombshell claim to Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn); that he is Phoebe’s father, while Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and Chase (Josh Swickard) signed their divorce papers.
Then, Danny caught Rocco (Finn Carr) and Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarski) sharing a kiss, plus the shocking return of Heather Webber (Alley Mills) capped the week.
Now the questions become; without having much promotional synergy in the ABC day-part to draw more eyeballs it is not helping but hurting General Hospital. It seems Beyond the Gates is also a benefactor of a one-two-three punch of CBS soaps (Y&R, B&B and BTG) and promotion.
However, that still doesn’t take away the fact that Beyond the Gates is close to besting GH in all ratings category as they go head-to-head in some markets across the country.
So, are you excited to see Beyond the Gates climb in the ratings? Are you concerned for General Hospital? Do you think they can stave off Beyond the Gates in total viewers or will the upstart soap overtake them in the next ratings report? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
Antonio Sabáto Jr., the former Jagger Cates of General Hospital and GH: Night Shift, and the former Dante Damiano of The Bold and the Beautiful has issued his first public statement since the incident involving his son, Jack’s arrest in Alaska for a fatal hit-and-run.
Jack is the son of Sabáto Jr. and Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen, and according to court documents obtained by KTUU Jack, was allegedly driving a white Chevy Tahoe when he hit and killed Carl Simmonds, 42, near an intersection in Anchorage around 5:35 a.m. on Monday, November 9.
The reports indicated that Jack fled the scene — but later decided to called the cops to say he hit “something” that “suddenly appeared in the road” while he was “doing late-night DoorDashing.”
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Now, Antonio has taken to his Instagram breaking his silence on the situation, sharing, “At this time, my family and I are navigating an extremely sensitive and deeply personal matter.”
He added, “As a father, my love for my children remains unconditional, and my priority is the well-being of my family. We ask that the public and members of the media honor our privacy during this difficult time and keep us all in your thoughts and prayers.”
The soap alum concluded, “I also wish to extend my heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of the gentleman who tragically lost his life. My thoughts and prayers are with them as well. We sincerely appreciate your compassion, understanding, and respect for the privacy of everyone affected.”
Jack Sabáto was arraigned in court on Tuesday, November 10 with bail set at $5,000, and a no-driving order and the potential of $5,000 penalty fees if he fails to attend future court appearances.
Antonio is the father to Jack, 34, daughter, Mina Sabato, 24 and son, Antonio Sabáto III, 15.
This is a developing story. You can check out Antonio’s official statement below.
So, let us know your thoughts on this tragic hit-and-run, which claimed the life of another man, and Antonio’s statement, via the comment section below.
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Sonny (Maurice Benard) and Ava’s (Maura West) daughter Avery looks quite different, starting on today’s November 9 episode of General Hospital. That’s because GH has made Avery into a full-blown teenager and the role is now being played by actress Alya Bullington.
In her debut, the Tennessee native was thrown into the deep soap waters with Daytime Emmy winners, Maurice Benard and Eden McCoy (Josslyn). Bullington weighed-in to TV Insider about her first scene which featured Avery overhearing a fight between Sonny and Josslyn.
She explained “It was something I have never done before, I did not have a lot of experience with the screaming and the crying stuff, but I got my first script, and I was like, ‘OK, this is a huge opportunity to learn so much about how that stuff works and to become this character that I have never even tried playing before.’”
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THE TEENAGED VERSION OF AVERY WILL HAVE A LOT TO CONTEND WITH
Speaking of working with McCoy, Bullington shared, “She’s incredible. I remember her just laughing and making jokes on set, and then the minute that they started taping, she just locked in and she cried immediately, and my first thought was, ‘I want to be able to do that.’
The soap opera newcomer added, “I think she just inspired me so much because she is so great and she can just lock into whatever character she wants to in the moment.”
The character of Avery was born back in 2014, but as recently as the October 8 episode of General Hospital, the character was suddenly referred to as a teenager. This is the second young female character in recent months to be aged up following the casting of Kayden Brenna Tokarski as Scout Cain.
As for her take on Avery and what’s ahead, Alya said,“She’s emotional, and she’s curious, and she’s a really fun person to play because so much stuff is happening in her life. I think she’s kind of confused about what’s happening and what to believe.”
So, what do you think about General Hospital making Avery a teenager? Are you excited to see the conflict between Sonny, Ava and Avery now that they have aged up the character? Share your thoughts and welcome Alya to GH via the comment section below.
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