General Hospital: Kirsten Storms Breaks Her Silence
Kirsten Storms Addresses Brandon Barash’s Claims. General Hospital star Kirsten Storms has broken her silence on ex-husband Brandon Barash’s (ex-Johnny Zacchara) claims about her mental health. The situation turned into a custody issue when Brandon filed for and was granted custody of their daughter Harper based on his claims against Storms.
Brandon Barash’s Claims:General Hospital news reports confirm that Kirsten Storms addresses Brandon Barash’s claims, the break-in situation, custody of their daughter, and her status as Maxie Jones in an Instagram post. She has reached out to fans stating, “this topic is difficult to address…” and continued to break her silence in five Instagram slides.
Back in April, Kirsten’s ex-husband and the father of their daughter filed for a restraining order, claiming that Storms was unstable, among other allegations. For the full, original story, check out the article below, or click HERE.
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At this time and always Kirsten Storms has put her daughter in top priority. As for Storms’s return to General Hospital, her post indicates that she will not return at this time. Instead, she will stay in Tennessee for the time being. Will General Hospital recaps the role of Maxie Jones?
General Hospital Blog offers Kirsten Storms full support in this ongoing battle for her child, her privacy, and her job.
General Hospital: Brandon Barash reports allegations against Kirsten Storms
According to General Hospital Breaking News, a restraining order has been filed and granted against the beloved GH star, Kirsten Storms. Ex-husband and former General Hospital co-star Brandon Barash (who played Johnny Zacchara) filed a restraining order against Storms with claims of alleged mental health issues and instability in her housing situation.
Recently, Kirsten Storms returned to the set of General Hospital after taking some time off to move down to Tennessee. Storms’s ex husband (Brandon Barash) and father of her child, (Harper Barash (age 12)), claims that Kirsten is exhibiting concerning behavior. experiencing hallucinations and that “a friend” told him that she abuses Adderall.
Additional claims by Barash state that she’d been living in hotels from September of 2024 to June of 2025, and that her car is about to be repossessed. Despite her successful career as an actress, Brandon also claims that he loaned Storms $5,000 which remains unpaid. He also referred to Kirsten’s latest social media posts about her recent eviction notice, and being hacked at her Tennessee apartment.
The former General Hospital mobster also claims that Storms reached out to him (Barash) on May 19, 2025, stating that she was experiencing “delusions and hallucination” and “didn’t think she should have their daughter on her scheduled parenting time.” Currently, Kirsten has supervised visitation with her daughter.
Allegedly, Barash’s current wife helped Storms check into a hospital where she was placed on a psychiatric hold. Then, TMZ reports that Barash said Storms acted as if nothing happened upon being released from the hospital.
According to TMZ, Barash has requested a psych evaluation for Storms, yet no proof of confirmation on an official court order exists at this time. Reportedly, a judge revisits the status of the restraining order this week.
Details of this heartbreaking situation have been provided by TMZ. As a third-party news outlet, General Hospital Blog does not claim the validity of these statements, nor does it express personal opinions on the matter.
As General Hospital fans, please respect all parties involved. Please refrain from unsolicited, inappropriate comments that could cause further damage to the situation, especially to their minor child.
Often times when an actor gets into any type of accident or has injured themselves in some way, if they aren’t required to take time off work, their unjust may be present in the scenes immediately following the real life incident.
General Hospital news reports confirm Kirsten Storms explains a recent self inflicted injury in her latest post on Instagram.
General Hospital spoilers reveal Storms was throwing out a bag of garbage when the incident occurred. In her IG caption, Kirsten describes how she got the garbage bag drawstring wrapped around her fingers. Kirsten explained that she will be wearing a brace in her upcoming scenes and Maxie Jones and wanted to address the issue to fans before there was confusion and speculation.
Storms joked that her ex, Brandon Barash (ex-Johnny Zacchara) teased that it was “karma for all the times I’ve flipped him off.”
Kirsten was in good spirits, cracking jokes and making light of the situation. She even chalked the experience up to a lesson learned. General Hospital news reports are happy to confirm Storms will not need any time away from the set of General Hospital as a result of her recent injury to her fingers.
Time sure does fly. It feels like yes today’s when General Hospital stars, Kirsten Storms (Maxie Jones) and Brandon Barash (Johnny Zacchara) announced they were expecting a child together.
It’s gets pretty personal for me because Kirsten and so were pregnant at the same time, and she is the first person I told- and it was in a Twitter DM! Kirsten was so sweet to tell me to send her a message so that I could get my news off my chest!
General Hospital news reports Kirsten abs Brandon’s daughter, Harper Rose Bataan is celebrating a very special birthday. Harper turned 7 on the 7th, making this milestone Harper’s Golden Birthday.
General Hospital’s Brandon Barash, who played Johnny Zacchara, son of mobster, Anthony Zacchara, was married to GH co-star, Kirsten Storms. Storms who plays Maxie Jones, share a daughter, Harper Rose.
Barash and Storms got married in 2013, but divorced about 3 years later. The two have remained close friends and are advocates for a healthy co-parenting lifestyle.
General Hospital news reports Brandon has moved on and he has featured a photo of his girlfriend on his personal IG account. Brandon captioned his photo with, “lucky fella.”
Congratulations to Brandon on his new relationship with Isabella Devoto.
Last month, General Hospital’s Steve Burton made an announcement on social media, informing fans that his band with current and former co-stars would be saying goodbye. The announcement caused some confusion among fans, as they dressed the thought of Steve Burton saying goodbye to his character, Jason Morgan, on GH. Thankfully, Burton followed up with another announcement, clearing up the General Hospital rumors, which caused confusion for the fans.
General Hospital news and spoilers announce another update regarding Burton’s band, Port Chuck. Burton, Brandon Barash, Scott Reeves, and Bradford Anderson, are picking up their microphones for another entertaining night of music!
Join the guys exclusively on PATREON! Check out the details below from Stevens Instagram!
Actor Steve Burton has played Jason Quartermaine/Morgan for two and a half decades. A few years back, Steve left General Hospital to focus on family, and moved to Tennessee. Fast forward a few years later, and GH fans were over the moon when General Hospital news reported the return of Steve Burton and his character, Jason Morgan, to GH.
Throughout his years on the popular Daytime Drama, Burton former friendships and bonds with many of his co-stars, becoming real life friends.
In 2010, General Hospital co-starts and friends, Steve Burton, Brandon Barash (Johnny Zacchara), Bradford Anderson (Damian Spinelli), and Scott Reeves (Steven Webber), formed a bands names, “Port Chuck.” The band was named after the fictional NY city on GH, the infamous, Port Charles. The band toured across the country, gaining popularity quickly. Scott Reeves lewd the group musically, as he was originally part of a band called, Blue Country. It didn’t take long for Anderson, Barash, and Burton, to become rock stars.
Barash and Reeves have moved on from GH, while Anderson and Burton remain on the ever popular soap opera as their iconic roles, Jason and Spinelli.
Unfortunately, General Hospital news announced they are hanging up their Port Chuck gig. The band has decided to call it quits, but Steve Burton and Damian Spinelli continue to work together on GH, and on their podcast, Stonecold and The Jackal.
Kirsten Storms and General Hospital’s Brandon Barash (Johnny Zacchara) have taken the social responsibility to self isolate during the Corona Virus Pandemic. The two co-parent daughter Harper Rose and are together in this time of quarantine. Kirsten is shown in her story hilariously pointing out Brandon playing what was meant to be Harper’s Nintendo Switch.
If you need to brighten your day or simply need a small distraction from the news and reality of Covid-19, take a peek at GeneralHospital’s Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms) Instagram story.
Confirmation that Brandon Barash’s character, Stefan DiMera on NBC’s Days of Our Lives, will be exiting the show.
Days of Our Lives spoilers revealed Barash will exit next week as his character will be killed off the longest running American daytime soap opera.
Brandon also had a long run on ABC’s General Hospital, as Johnny Zacchara, son of big time mob boss, Anthony Zacchara. He played Johnny from 2007 to 2016. He quickly became front and center as one of the main characters and among the favorites of lovable Port Charles mobsters and their respective families.
Since DOOL news has confirmed the exit of Barash from the daytime drama, General Hospital news sources have kept this information on their radar. It seems like a logical prediction that Brandon may be interested in reprising his role as Johnny. General Hospital news has not yet confirmed any of the rumors of Brandon Barash returning to GH.
General Hospital Blog will keep fans up to date on GH spoilers and news regarding the possible return of Brandon Barash.
Do you miss the mob scene in Port Charles? Johnny Zacchara returning to Port Charles would bring new story lines to the table. Are the fans ready for more mob crime in PC?
General Hospital’s favorite off screen couple has decided to call it quits. Though their characters Maxie Jones and JOhnny Zacchara had a brief romance on screen, the actors found love and become a family with their daughter, Harper Rose.
Kirsten Storms and Brandon Barash told Soap Opera Digest the news fans will find devastating. “We are splitting due to the cliche irreconcilable differences, but we’re splitting amicably,” Barash told SOD. :We have every intention of remaining a family through this and successfully co-parenting our kid and retaining a friendship in the efforts of raising her in a healthy environment.”
Kirsten Storms said, “We went to therapy for a long time, trying to figure out how to communicate better with each other.” Barash added, “But we’ve decided that raising our daughter in two separate homes would be a healthier choice for all of us.”
GH Blog is sad to report the news of Storms and Barash’s recent split. We wish them all the very best.
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