Before Maxie fell in love with Peter, she blamed him for the death of her husband, Nathan West (Ryan Paevey), who might have been the only good guy Maxie ever chose, and her most popular pairing during her years on "General Hospital." It turned out that Nathan was Peter's half-brother, which Nathan did not know in which he was lured into a trap in which he was killed (via Soap Dirt). While Peter didn't pull the trigger, his deranged father, Cesar Faison (Anders Hove) did, and Maxie found that to be unforgivable for a while. It was also a story that Kirsten Storms loved playing.
"I feel like that challenged me the most as an actor," Storms told Soap Opera Digest of Maxie's grieving process after she was left alone and pregnant when Nathan passed away. "I had to cry for weeks. I don't like crying in a scene unless I feel like I can really make it believable, and some days, it's so difficult to get to that place. But I felt like the story and the writing of Nathan's death impacted me so much that it was ... I don't want to say easier, but I could connect with what I was doing more because it was written just so beautifully."
Indeed, there wasn't a dry eye in Port Charles or in the audience when Nathan died (via Soaps In Depth).
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