All The Destruction Caused By ‘General Hospital’ Chaos Maker Madeline Reeves

For a character who wasn’t around for long, General Hospital’s Madeline Reeves sure left a lot of damage in her path of destruction. Played by primetime soap queen Donna Mills for one whirlwind year and earning her a Daytime Emmy in 2015, per IMDb, Madeline caused so much ruin and chaos that the effects of her acts can still be felt in multiple storylines today.

Madeline Reeves Came, Saw, Damaged, and Died

It didn’t take long for Madeline’s brief presence in Port Charles and on the GH canvas to do maximum damage and alter stories and characters’ lives for years to come, but fans just learned of one more heinous Madeline act to add to her list of diabolical acts. Madeline was the one who chose to let her sister believe one of her twins had died and sent that twin to live with his deranged, evil father, Cesar Faison (Anders Hove). But Madeline was old hat at that sort of thing.

Madeline was first introduced to the PC scene in 2014 as the mother of police detective Nathan West (Ryan Paevey). We eventually learned that Nathan had a sister, Nina (then played by Michelle Stafford), who had been in a coma for 20 years. After Nina emerged from her coma and had a psychotic break, it was revealed that Madeline had put Nina in her coma when she gave her pregnant daughter too many antidepressants in the hopes of causing a miscarriage. Madeline did not want anyone else to have a claim to her husband’s fortune.

Liesl (Kathleen Gati) also revealed that Nathan was not Madeline’s son after all. He was her son, whom Madeline was raising in order to keep him away from his evil father, or at least that was the original claim. After Nina emerged from her coma, Madeline still wanted her daughter’s inheritance, so she made Nina believe she had killed her first husband, Silas Clay (Michael Easton), by gaslighting her into thinking she was losing her mind. Madeline even paid Ric (Rick Hearst) to marry Nina and help carry out this sadistic plan. But it was Madeline who ended up in jail after it turned out she was the one who stabbed Silas to death.

In 2018, Madeline revealed to Nina’s new husband, Valentin (James Patrick Stuart), that Nina’s baby never died and she’d had a C-section while in her coma and gave birth to a daughter. Right after making that confession, Madeline had a heart attack and died. It took until 2021 for fans to learn that Nina really had two babies and Madeline had given each twin away to some pretty poor choices for parents. Nelle (Chloe Lanier) was raised by deadbeat Frank Benson and Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) was raised in a cult.

In 2026, Nelle is dead, Willow is a force of destruction, Nina (Cynthia Watros) is just trying to keep her daughter out of jail, and Nathan’s twin Cassius is just trying to stay alive. All because Madeline couldn’t leave well enough alone with other people’s lives.