Can General Hospital's Willow forgive Nina...again? Katelyn MacMullen weighs in

Nina Reeves' lifelong dream finally came true on General Hospital's Christmas Eve episode. Someone finally called her mom, and she couldn't be happier. Too bad Nina's daughter has no idea that she and Nina shared a man this year. Nina obviously knows she slept with Drew. Willow, who also slept with Drew, had no idea what her mother was up to, but should it matter?

Did Nina really do anything bad?

Nina had every right to sleep with Drew | Image Source: ABC

When Drew (Cameron Mathison) and Nina (Cynthia Watros) had their first office romp, it was a bit off-putting to fans as this unlikely duo didn't even like one another. But two adults can do what they want to do. At the time, Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) didn't even want to look at Nina much less have a relationship with her. It seemed she would have judged Drew more than Nina and wondered why her hero would want someone who helped put him behind bars for a few months last year.

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However, Katelyn MacMullen wonders if Willow would have thought twice about sleeping with Drew had she known that he had already had sex with her mother multiple times.

"I can’t imagine that finding out that information after so much stuff has gone down without Willow thinking, Maybe some of this could have been avoided if you had told me,'" MacMullen told Soap Opera Digest. However, she understands that her character also has agency (or at least as much agency as you can when you live in the mind of a writer).

"Not to take any responsibility away from Willow, because even if Nina had told her, Willow is still the one who set this train in motion," MacMullen added. "It’s just that maybe it would have stopped sooner, and maybe it wouldn’t have gotten so out of hand and certain events wouldn’t have taken place. But that’s a question she’ll never know the answer to; she’ll never know if this would have changed or that would have changed had a transparent conversation taking place and Willow wasn’t living under this set of false pretenses, in a sense."

A unified General Hospital mother-daughter duo

Willow now trusts Nina | Image Source: ABC

It took a long time for Nina and Willow to get to the place where they are now. When they first met seven years ago, they didn't even know they were mother and daughter. Willow was the young third-grade teacher, and Nina was the annoying class mom when she was Charlotte's (Scarlett Fernandez) stepmother.

It's been two years since Nina learned Willow was her daughter and she's done nothing but try to earn back her trust (in her own Nina-like way) since. Now that Willow and Nina have a close relationship, MacMullen would like to see them weather this Drew storm.

"Maybe I have a bias of wanting things to work out because Willow and Nina because they’ve always been at odds and I think it would be really cool to see them somehow make their way through this," she said. "I really do feel for Nina in this situation. Nina really has had Willow’s back, so I don’t think [her secrecy] is coming from a place of, like, 'Oh, I just want her life to spiral.' I think it’s the opposite. She’s trying to get Willow’s life to stop spiraling, and I think maybe she just doesn’t know if this information would actually benefit Willow or not."

For now, Willow is off to DC with Wiley, Scout, and Drew. She will be by Drew's side as he is sworn into Congress, but Nina and Drew's secret is still out there and could change Willow's outlook in an instant.

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