Did General Hospital star Kirsten Storms have brain surgery?
GENERAL Hospitals Kirsten Storms has been playing the role of Maxie Jones in the soap opera since 2005. The actress is also known for playing Zenon Kar in the Disney Channel Zenon trilogy movies. Kirsten Storms, 37, revealed to her followers that she is recovering from brain surgery. The actress shared a series of videos explaining that she was headed home from the hospital after having surgery the week of June 1, 2021. In the clip, Storms said: There really is no filter that's going to make this better for me right now," she quipped in the first clip. "So I've not really spoken about this much or at all actually. Less than 48 hours ago I had brain surgery, hence the neck brace, it was on the lower portion of my brain. 3 Storms is recovering from brain surgery after doctors found a cyst Credit: Instagram/Kirsten Storms  Em is taking care of me until I get to my at home nurse, [referring to her friend and former costar Emme Rylan.] In the Instagram clips, Storms said her brain surgery was necessary to remove "a very large cyst that had split into two." She added: "What they had to drain and remove was not cancer  I want to clarify that right now before the internet goes crazy wild with rumors about this. "I had a very large cyst that had split into two and the doctor said it was like so full the pressure was very noticeable when they opened up my skull, sounds so weird." 3 Storms will be recovering for a few weeks prior to getting back to work Credit: Instagram/Kirsten Storms  Storms said she was going to be in recovery for a few weeks, saying: I will be on the mend for the next several weeks but I will be back at work when this is over with.  The actress said she plans to relax and knit to pass the time. Lets see if I can speak a foreign language now, she joked. Storms is in a relationship with musician Elias Reidy. The couple started dating in 2006 and have had an on-off relationship since. Most read in Celebrity 'CREEPY!' Clarence Williams III's ex-wife BE-HOTTIE Adam Levine and wife Behati pack on the PDA in Maui as model wears teeny bikini breakup blues ARod looks sad dining alone while ex JLo's romance with Ben Affleck heats up SWEET! Sutton says Kyle 'dragged her' to inject SUGAR filler instead of 'poisonous' Botox 'REST IN POWER' Clarence Williams III dead at 81 after Mod Squad star loses cancer battle  Previously, Storms was married to her General Hospital co-star Brandon Barash. The couple secretly married in 2013 but divorced in 2016. She and Brandon had one child together, a daughter named Harper Rose Barash. She has also been romantically linked to Ben Hogestyn, Josh Henderson, and Erik-Michael Estrada.