General Hospital’s Katelyn MacMullen Reveals Why Willow Is Playing Nice With Drew (Exclusive)

In the wake of landing in Pentonville, “I would say that complete fear and paranoia have set in,” asserts MacMullen. “She’s been indicted, and there’s not much she can do. She can’t really be like, ‘No, guys, I swear it wasn’t me!’ Nothing about this looks good. She’s hoping and hoping and hoping that somehow she is proven innocent, but all the details look pretty bad for her.”

On the plus side, she now has a very savvy lawyer in the form of Alexis, who has promised to defend her to the very best of her abilities. On the minus side, that lawyer has come to her via Drew, who gave her access to Scout in exchange for Alexis taking Willow’s case. That only makes her more beholden to her former fiancé.

“She’s so defenseless at this point and she needs help. She needs all the help she can get!” exclaims MacMullen. “So she’s definitely aligning herself with Drew.” But to hear the actress tell it, she definitely sees Drew just as a means to an end. “I think it’s a ‘keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer’ kind of thing for her,” she offers. “In her brain, I think she’s like, ‘Okay, the system is rigged.’ She’s believed that to be true since Michael got custody. And with all the corruption in the town, she’s like, ‘I have to be aligned with people who might have pull.’ So, at this point, she’s so desperate to have a dog in this fight that she’s like, ‘Well, I’d rather keep him close to me in case he can actually pull off a miracle [and help her get exonerated]. 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.”

In the meantime, Willow’s focus will be on regaining her freedom so that she can ultimately regain custody of Wiley and Amelia. Says MacMullen, “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. She’s determined to get herself out of this situation, and I think her kids always follow at priority one. It’s like, number one, make sure they’re okay after they saw her get arrested. Now it’s making sure that she can clear her name so that her kids don’t think their mom did this. I think all of this is really for her kids, because if she can get her freedom, freedom comes with being able to be with her kids. She’ll do anything to clear her name so that she can be with them on the other side of this.”

Willow has been through a lot since arriving in Port Charles, but MacMullen agrees that this is a particularly rough time for her. “Yeah, it’s not so great,” she chuckles. “I mean, she’s got some people on her side, which is a relief, but overall? I’d give it a 4 out of 10.”