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Jun 25, 2024 · Hayden’s abrupt exit from the show was due to Rebecca Budig’s sudden dismissal from her contract with General Hospital. However, with Violet’s situation reaching a critical point, it might be time for Hayden to make a much-needed return.
Nov 26, 2023 · Hayden fell in love with Nikolas Cassadine (Tyler Christopher), and she used him to her advantage. Nikolas knew Drew’s real identity, and she blackmailed him to stay with her. Hayden decided to get her hands on the Cassadine fortune. She ended up scamming Nikolas into marriage.
Feb 1, 2023 · In 2015, Budig was cast as Hayden Barnes on GH, a role that earned her yet another Daytime Emmy nod. While her first stint only lasted a few months and Hayden was shot and fell into a coma, the character soon woke up and the actress returned a few months later to reprise the role.
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Hayden Barnes is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital. She is the daughter of Dr. Jeff Webber and Naomi Dreyfus and the legal daughter of Raymond Berlin.
She was conceived during an affair her parents had while they were both married to different people.
Daytime Emmy nominated actress and All My Children alumni Rebecca Budig, debuted on General Hospital in the role of Hayden Barnes on March 20, 2015 as the woman pretending to be the wife of Jake Doe (Billy Miller).
Budig's casting was announced on Twitter by executive producer Frank Valentini and head writer Ron Carlivati on February 10, 2015. "I've always loved GH and I love Frank, so it’s really exciting to get to go over there and play" Budig said to Soap Opera Digest. Carlivati described the character as "a real spitfire" and Valentini said it was "Killer role."
In an interview with Michael Logan for TV Insider, the character was officially revealed to be Hayden Barnes. Budig described the character as "ballsy and very direct" similar to her former All My Children character, Greenlee Smythe Lavery. "However", Budig continued, "this one is much more out there than Greenlee."
Budig admitted that she herself was surprised by some of Hayden's actions. The actress anticipated fan backlash, considering the trouble she is sure to stir up for the popular heroine Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) in her romance with Jake. Logan described Hayden as a "maneater."
On May 19, 2015, Rebecca departed from the show after her character went into to a coma, but she and her character could come back at anytime.
On July 31, 2015, Soap Opera Digest confirmed that Budig will return to GH as Hayden. She returned on August 3, 2015 on a four year contract.
While Hayden is her legal name, her birth name is Rachel Berlin and she is the daughter of Dr. Jeff Webber and Naomi Dreyfus via an affair the two had from 1980-81. Jeff has no idea that Hayden is his daughter.
On September 14, 2016, Hayden finds out that Jeff is her biological father and Elizabeth Webber, a woman she once despised, is her half-sister. Since finding out, the two have gotten closer and have began to like each other.
Raymond Berlin, her legal father, the man she knows to be her father, organized a ponzi scheme on Wall Street a few years ago and is responsible for swindling people out of millions. Raymond is currently serving over 200 years in prison for multiple counts of security fraud.
Growing up, Hayden was a "daddy's girl" and very close to her "father" Raymond. She described herself as a precocious young child, whom her father adored. They were inseparable and she likened their relationship to that between Nikolas and Spencer Cassadine.
However, right before she entered high school, Raymond suddenly became distant and fought with Naomi a lot. Hayden wasn't sure what they were fighting about, but soon after she was sent away to boarding school. It can be inferred that Raymond could have found out about Hayden's true paternity at this time.
Hayden has been married twice and both marriages were brutal and abusive.
•Accidentally hit a girl while driving drunk [prior to her 2015 arrival; revealed 2017]
•Stole diamonds from her father before the FBI could seize them [prior to her 2015 arrival; arrested and released Sep 2016]
•Fraud; pretended to be Jake Doe's wife under the orders of Ric Lansing, who was paying her to do it [Mar 20-May 1, 2015; revealed Mar 24, 2015]
•Withheld the information that Jake Doe was actually Jason Morgan [May 1-Nov 6, 2015; revealed May 9, 2015; although Jason was revealed to be Drew Cain on Dec 1, 2017]
•Blackmailed Nikolas Cassadine and Elizabeth Webber about Jake being Jason [May 9-Dec 14, 2015]
•Worked with Tracy Quartermaine in an attempt to steal ELQ from Nikolas [Nov 2015-Apr 2016; plot failed and she was fired by Tracy]
•Manhandled by Nikolas Cassadine [Apr 30, 2015]
•In the line of fire when Shawn Butler was sent to kill Jake Doe [May 18, 2015]
•Shot in the head by a hit man under the orders of Nikolas Cassadine [May 18, 2015]
•Had a seizure [revealed May 19, 2015]
•Went into surgery to remove the bullet from her head and the surgery was successful but she was left comatose [May 19, 2015; revealed May 20, 2015]
•Was in a coma [May 19-Jul 31, 2015]
•On September 5, 2017, the birth date for Hayden's alias Madison Ford was listed as June 3, 1985 on her passport.
•Drew Cain and Hayden Barnes
•Hamilton Finn and Hayden Barnes
Fans have been longing for the return of General Hospital’s Rebecca Budig (ex-Hayden) and though there hasn’t been any official word if or when that could happen, we wanted to pass along a...
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Jul 22, 2021 · The biggest twist we see coming, however, involves the newly-returned Spencer. For a while now, the audience has been lead to believe that Nikolas’ son — no fan of his stepmom — is the...
