The Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century actress looked back on Maxie Jones’ storylines
With two decades playing Maxie Jones on General Hospital under her belt, Kirsten Storms has had a myriad of experiences on set.
The former Disney Channel actress first joined the show, which has been on the air since 1963 and has a whopping 62 seasons, in 2005, when she was 21 years old.
Having started on the show so young, and having been a child actress, there’s countless fellow actors she has come across on set, which has sometimes made for rather “strange” experiences.
© GettySpeaking with Swooon about her milestone 20 years on General Hospital, Kirsten looked back on some of the many romances her character has had.
“So many of them are dead. Maxie is black widow-ish,” she first joked, before reflecting on a particular storyline with Greg Vaughan’s character Lucky Spencer that she wasn’t quite into.
About a year into her tenure on the show, Matt Marraccini’s character Jesse Beaudry dies, and Maxie, grieving, develops a crush on Lucky, who was his partner, and the two begin an affair.
© WireImage“It was weird,” she told the outlet, explaining: “I’ve known Greg since I was, like, 14 or 15, and to me, back then, he was a grown-up. So, that was a very interesting experience.”
At the time, Kirsten was about 22 or 23 years old, and Greg, who was on General Hospital from 2003 to 2009, is ten years her senior.
© Getty ImagesKirsten further shared: “Of course, I always thought Greg was a gorgeous guy,” however emphasized: “That was a little strange for me.”
She added: “The storyline was rough because of all the things Maxie was doing just to get him. So, that was a crazy time, and questionable choices were made.”
© WireImageIn the show, Greg’s character was married to Elizabeth Webber, played by Rebecca Herbst, and Maxie, in an effort to lure him into an affair, used pain pills to bribe Lucky, who was struggling with addiction, and pretended to be pregnant and faked a miscarriage when he tried to reconcile with his wife.
In real life, Kirstie, who first shot to fame when she starred as Zenon Kar in the beloved Disney Channel Zenon trilogy, was married to her General Hospital co-star Brandon Barash from 2013 to 2016. He was on the show from 2007 to 2013 and from 2014 to 2015, and the two share a daughter, Harper Rose, born in 2014.
