'General Hospital' Star Kirsten Storms Says She Is Undergoing Brain Surgery for an Aneurysm: 'We've All Got Times When Things Aren't Great' J.
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J. Kim MurphyOctober 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Kirsten Storms offered "General Hospital" fans an update on her health Monday evening, sharing that she is scheduled for a surgical coiling procedure "sometime in the next two weeks" to address a brain aneurysm that her doctors discovered in a January scan.
In a statement on social media, the longtime soap actress, who has been featured on "General Hospital" for 20 years, wrote that the discovery "majorly freaked" her out. She added that she "wanted to post this because even though my brain seems to be sorta lowkey rebelling against me, it does allow me to understand that we've all got times when things aren't great. If we can, we will do our best to do what is best for ourselves and loved ones."
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Per the Mayo Clinic, a coiling procedure involves "feeding a soft, flexible wire into the aneurysm via a catheter. The wire coils inside the aneurysm and seals off the aneurysm from the artery." The surgery is done as a preventative to keep the aneurysm from rupturing.
Storms also addressed a false online rumor that Storms had been hospitalized in January because she "tried to 'unalive'" herself, when she was actually meeting with her neurosurgeon for a brain scan to monitor a cyst. "I couldn't understand why a person would make up something that terrible, when they had no idea why I was really there," she wrote. "There are a few really bad apples out there"
Storms took a hiatus from "General Hospital" to move from Los Angeles to Tennessee in July, with her role of Maxie being temporarily played by Nicole Paggi.
"Since the January scan showed a new, but *very small*, squatter (aka cyst) on my brain stem – it was clear I needed [to] change some things in my life asap," Storms wrote in her most recent post. "For my own personal reasons, no longer living in Los Angeles was very important to me. The biggest reason for the move was [my daughter] Harper, but a lot of it was for my physical and mental health."
Storms has since returned to "General Hospital" in pre-taped scenes, but she remains on leave from the long-running series. In prior social posts, the actress has floated that she could be "back in December, maybe November." She first joined the soap in May 2005.
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