General Hospital spoilers relate that alum Hayley Erin won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series last Sunday for her role as Kiki Jerome. The young star is now opening up about her decision to leave the highly-rated ABC soap, on her own terms. Even though the actress misses daytime television, she’s very proud of her new show: The Perfectionists on the Freeform Channel. Here’s what you need to know.
General Hospital Spoilers: Freshly-Crowned Daytime Emmy Winner Hayley Erin (Kiki Jerome) Opens Up About Leaving Port Charles After Brutal Ryan Chamberlain Murder
In a recent Soaps in Depth interview, the beautiful young star says that while she still watches the show, there are certain scenes that she just can’t watch on her own. One of the scenes of course is her character’s funeral.
“I watched all of Maura West’s beautiful scenes when Ava found out, but I can’t watch the funeral,” she admitted to Soaps In Depth. “Leading up to this, I thought I was going to relish in it. ‘I’ve cried over graves. Now I want to watch you cry over my grave!’ But it’s so not like that. It’s genuinely sad for me.”
As far as the writers’ decision to kill off Kiki Jermoe, Hayley says there’s no hard feelings. In fact, she even says that killing off Kiki means that she was so good at her job they didn’t want to bring someone else in to reprise the role!
“I take it as a compliment they didn’t want to bring in another Kiki,” she said. “It worked for the story, and I got to move on to this new chapter.”
She added, “Any person who loves General Hospital will also love The Perfectionists. It’s a teen murder-mystery soap opera with storylines involving college professors and students. It’s edgy, sexy and dark. But it’s still funny.”
The Perfectionists is a show that’s getting a lot of media attention recently, so viewers that are unfamiliar might want to check it out.
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