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Why This Controversial ‘General Hospital’ Character Is Ready To Sacrifice Her Life
‘General Hospital’s’ Britt Westbourne is ready to leave Port Charles and give up her medication, but will she make it out alive?
General Hospital’s Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) isn’t earning herself any new fans in Port Charles, as she unwittingly keeps putting Rocco Falconeri (Finn Carr) in danger. In fact, since her return to the show last year, she’s seen multiple people suffer because of her, which has led her to make a major decision she probably won’t stick to. But for now, she’s ready to leave town…something that could also cost Britt her life.
Britt Is Willing To Say Goodbye to Her Meds
When General Hospital chose to bring Britt back in the summer of 2025, it had to explain how a character that was allegedly dying from Huntington’s Disease was suddenly fine. So, the show invented a fictional experimental medication that would keep her symptoms at bay. However, to keep receiving regular doses of this drug, Britt has been forced to use her brilliant scientist’s brain to develop what sounds like a weapon for some nefarious players.
Britt only receives a dose when she’s completed a day in the lab, but Britt is no longer willing to build something so dangerous that she knows will be used to hurt people. She also knows that teenage Rocco’s attachment to her has put him in danger. If Rocco hadn’t followed her to the pier in March, he never would have shot crooked WSB director Ross Cullum (Andrew Hawkes). So, Britt has decided to leave town, which means she won’t have access to her meds.
“I think at this point, she is just like, ‘You know what? This isn’t worth it anymore, I’m just going to die of Huntington’s,'” actress Kelly Thiebaud said in an interview with Soap Opera Digest. “It’s not in a ‘woe is me’ type of way, I just think she’s feeling really helpless and really alone. She does have people that she loves, but I don’t think she really feels like she has anyone in town that she can count on. So it’s easy to feel like, ‘It’s better for me to just go away because I’m the problem here.”
Before Britt took off, she made one more reckless move when she agreed to take Rocco, knowing the bad guys could catch them before they make their great escape. But for now, Britt is willing to give everything up…including her life.
General Hospital airs weekdays on ABC and streams each weeknight on Hulu.
