Molly has had a rough time of it recently on General Hospital. After learning she couldn’t carry TJ’s baby on her own, she reluctantly agreed to let her sister act as their surrogate only to have Kristina decide to keep the baby for herself. Worse still, she then lost the baby in a tragic fall and instead of grief bringing Molly and TJ closer together, it tore them apart!
“Molly feels attacked by the way that he doesn’t feel that she’s grieving correctly,” Kristen Vaganos explained to Soap Opera Digest. “She feels like she’s constantly at fault and apologizing and she can’t handle any of that anymore. She doesn’t have a single ounce of strength left for that. So it just gets to the horrible breaking point of, ‘Maybe we can’t do this anymore.’ And on top of that, you add the notion that TJ wants to try again [to have a baby] and Molly just doesn’t have that in her.”
Molly and TJ have been struggling for months and while it’s given Vaganos and co-star Tajh Bellow some powerful material to work with, it’s also been a bit of a drain on the characters and viewers who have been overwhelmed with sadness recently. “We haven’t had a bright day for a while, so we’re curious if something is out there for TJ and Molly, if some happiness is coming soon,” Vaganos mused. “But it really was an honor to play this story through to — not to the end, but to wherever we are now, to this moment in time, and just honor their experience. There’s a lot of love between them still. There’s no hatred; it’s just not working at the moment.”
Although the actress is sure there’s still more story to tell with TJ and Molly, she’s also intrigued to see what Molly does when she’s on her own. Given that TJ is the only real romance she’s ever had, Vaganos isn’t sure Molly would really look for another guy… at least not right now!
“I can’t really imagine throwing myself into another relationship if I was at where she is emotionally,” she admitted. “If I had to guess, I wouldn’t expect that for her. I would expect a moment of independence and solitude and just not owing anybody anything because that could be quite freeing.”
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