{"id":179307,"date":"2025-07-08T07:32:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/why-kirsten-storms-is-taking-a-break-from-general-hospital-this-year\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T07:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:32:49","slug":"why-kirsten-storms-is-taking-a-break-from-general-hospital-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/why-kirsten-storms-is-taking-a-break-from-general-hospital-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kirsten Storms Is Taking a Break From General Hospital This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/general-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>General Hospital<\/em><\/a> star <strong>Kirsten Storms<\/strong> is taking an extended break from the long-running ABC soap opera \u2014 and she\u2019s already filmed her final scenes for now.<\/p>\n<p>The Maxie Jones actress, 41, shared in an Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DL09dFDRy2I\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> on Monday, July 7, that she plans to move from Los Angeles to Nashville with her daughter, Harper, 11, whom she shares with her ex-husband and fellow soap actor, <strong>Brandon Borash<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Storms said her hiatus has been in the works since March, explaining that she approached <em>GH<\/em> executive producer <strong>Frank Valentini<\/strong> about her cross-country move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a conversation with him about my reasons for wanting to move and my desire to not leave the show,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you approach a job like this, they can always be like, \u2018Forget it, I will let you out of your contract if you\u2019re going to leave the state.\u2019 <em>GH<\/em> did not do that, which was kind of amazing because I also asked for some time off.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/breaking-down-general-hospitals-recent-cast-shakeups\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/breaking-down-general-hospitals-recent-cast-shakeups\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Drama in Port Charles! A Breakdown of &#8216;General Hospital&#8217; Recent Shakeups<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tSoap operas often change up their casts, but there seems to be something in the water in Port Charles on General Hospital. Fresh off winning a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Young Performer in a Daytime Drama Series, Eden McCoy was mysteriously replaced by Courtney Fulk as Josslyn Jacks in December 2023. Neither ABC nor [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Storms said she has already \u201chad my final taping day for the year,\u201d adding, \u201cIt\u2019s possible I will be back in December, maybe November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI promise you the story line they have going on until my return to Port Charles is kind of incredible,\u201d the actress teased what\u2019s to come for Maxie. \u201cYou guys are gonna freak out actually. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Storms captioned her post, \u201cI\u2019m very excited to be making Tennessee my home! I can\u2019t wait to return to <em>GH<\/em>, once Harper and I are settled in our new town. I plan on documenting as much of this new journey on my social media as I can. It\u2019s always been a dream of mine to move to a place like this, it\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s really happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former <em>Days of Our Lives<\/em> star has played Maxie since 2005, though producers have temporarily recast the part with other actresses to accommodate Storms.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, <strong>Nicole Paggi<\/strong> took over the role of Maxie in various episodes beginning with the Thursday, July 3, episode due to scheduling conflicts, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soapoperadigest.com\/content\/kirsten-storms-temporarily-replaced-on-general-hospital-nicole-paggi-steps-in-as-maxie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Soap Opera Digest<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Paggi, who previously filled in for Storms in December 2023, will appear in further episodes in July and August, according to the outlet. Storms is expected to be back on screen on August 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would be lying if I didn\u2019t say that I was taken aback a bit by it,\u201d Storms told <em>Soap Opera Digest<\/em> about <em>GH<\/em>\u2019s decision to temporarily recast Maxie in the July\/August episodes.<\/p>\n<p>But, she added, \u201cI would prefer that someone play Maxie and be playing Maxie well to keep the character relevant and in the soap world still because it doesn\u2019t take much for a character to die off and for somebody else to come in and be in a front-burner story line. I was very excited just to know that she was still going to be in Port Charles and doing lots of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/kirsten-storms-is-taking-a-break-from-general-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Hospital star Kirsten Storms is taking an extended break from the long-running ABC soap opera \u2014 and she\u2019s already filmed her final scenes for now. The Maxie Jones actress, 41, shared in an Instagram video on Monday, July 7, that she plans to move from Los Angeles to Nashville with her daughter, Harper, 11, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-179307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}