General Hospital's Katelyn MacMullen weighs in on why Willow accepts Drew's help

On General Hospital, Willow Tait is currently in Pentonville awaiting trial for the shooting of her quasi-ex boyfriend Drew Cain.

While she loathes Drew (Cameron Mathison) for having an affair with her mother Nina Reeves (Cynthia Watros), and for being his corrupt congressman self, Willow needs Drew. He has been trying to help her get her children Wiley and Amelia back, and now he is trying to get her exonerated for shooting him. To that end, he made a deal with Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) to get her to represent Willow.

Willow needs all the help she can get as she is now in prison, the latest in a series of traumas for the nurse, and needs Drew more than ever. Her portrayer, Katelyn MacMullen, discussed her Drew dilemma with Soap Opera Digest.

Willow needs all the help she can get on General Hospital

“I’d rather keep him close to me in case he can actually pull off a miracle,” she told SOD. “That’s the better option for her than making an enemy of him, because she believes that Drew kind of always gets what she wants at the end of the day. If she keeps him close, she can have access to his help when she needs it, and she can also kind of monitor him. That’s better than burning the bridge.”

Willow believes she is innocent, but it’s possible that she shot him and doesn’t remember it because she was either on a psychotic break or an alter personality took over.

Either way, Willow’s priority is getting her children back. Losing them to Michael this summer has been one of the gigantic blows Willow has taken this year.

“She feels like she has to prove her innocence because she doesn’t want her kids to grow up and think that this is really what happened, that Willow really did this,” MacMullen told SOD. “She’ll do anything to clear her name so that she can be with them on the other side of this.”

The General Hospital star also discussed the big surprise Willow got in the arraignment hearing, when her mother threw her under the bus by retracting her alibi.

Nina had made up the story, that she was walking with Willow outside General Hospital, at the spur of the moment without consulting with her daughter. When the cops proved that Nina was at home during that time, she was forced to recant her statement. That didn’t matter to Willow, who was furious with Nina in the courtroom.

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“At this point, she certainly blames Nina for this whole situation that she’s in because she didn’t ask her to lie to the cops to begin with,” MacMullen told SOD. “Willow is like, ‘Oh, my gosh, she roped me into this alibi and then she left me in the lurch! Now I look so guilty when it was never my idea to lie in the first place!’ It feels like such a betrayal.”

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