On Tuesday’s episode of General Hospital, viewers saw Heather Webber wrestle with the totality of her recent murder sprees. In an exclusive chat with Soap Opera Digest, Alley Mills, the actress behind the loveable loon mused on Heather and Laura’s striking (and strikingly odd) bond, the homework she undertook, and what lies ahead.

Alley Mills Talks Heather

On what Laura’s (Genie Francis) support means to Heather: “It means everything to her because Laura and Ace are her only family. Franco’s dead, Esme is now dead. Steven Lars is in prison and doesn’t want anything to do with her.”

On Heather’s struggle to reconcile her actions: “I don’t think Heather had any idea what she was doing when she was in that hood. I don’t think she did. I think she was just out of her mind with revenge and rage at what people were doing to her daughter…

“I, as an actor, never thought about the fact that she was a murderer. It’s a horrible process to go through. It’s what really makes it hard to be an actor. I really hated it. But if you’re going to feel real remorse, you have to imagine what it meant to the people that you did it to, and especially the people that they left behind. She’s thinking about that. For her to feel remorse is like a weird new ingredient.”

What kind of research did she do in the lead-up to Heather’s story: “I read this book, Brain On Fire; it’s a true story about a young reporter at The New York Post, and she had an autoimmune reaction in her brain that caused a temporary mental illness. And then I researched cobalt poisoning and how it affects you neurologically. It can affect not just the heart, but also the brain, causing extreme anxiety and weird reactions.”

On whether or not Heather will lose the quirks that make her one of a kind: “I won’t let her. And the reason that I won’t let her is because I’ve met too many people in parking lots that identify with me, who I feel are fellow scrappers, and they love her. They love the fighter in her, they love how smart she is. They love that she’s always thinking and manipulating and winning, with a punk kind of spirit.

That’s my favorite fan base and I can’t disappoint them. I won’t give it up. I’ll fight any writing that gives it up, because that’s who she is.”

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