Hot Costly! Nancy Lee Grahn Talks Twitter and Dishes on her behalf account General Hospital Menopause Plot

Nancy Lee Grahn Nancy Lee Grahn is sweating at lot nowadays round the number of General Hospital, which is not due to people cancellation gossips. For the reason that she's going somewhere Susan Lucci never dared - now her character, Alexis, will probably be declared menopause! TV Guide Magazine spoken using the Emmy-winning Grahn in regards to the dreaded "M" word, how she copes with ageism in soaps and why the hell she can't stop tweeting. TV Guide Magazine: Many a daytime diva would refuse to accomplish this menopause story. How you handling it? Grahn: I believe that go on! I used to be known as with towards the producer's office and asked for essentially had an problem by using it. Who am i held kidding? I'm coping with menopause myself. I'm always hot and crabby. I'm tweeting a couple of a few things i don't mean. When someone startles me I scream like I've been stabbed inside the eye getting a knife. I won't enable the warmth started up in your house, so my poor daughter needs to use a parka in your home. [Laughs] Plus, my memory goes. Yesterday, I kid explore, I really could not can remember the word "party" if my existence had depended about it. I used to be, like, "What is can they think of it as when people get together have fun? It starts getting a P." It's terrible! TV Guide Magazine: Yeah, but, does everyone else need to visit this? Grahn: Do they wish to see another mob shootout? Inside the 15 years I've been in GH we have not had many tales told about women in the woman's perspective. In my opinion I am capable of getting this to funny and entertaining and relatable. Besides, it's very timely. TV Guide Magazine: Uh...why would that be? Grahn: Because the soaps may also be coping with menopause! Women either can consider this stage of existence as dying or perhaps an chance to transition into something wonderful, which is what the soaps need to do. To live, they need to change while using occasions. They need to adapt. [Laughs] They might require some damn your body's the body's hormones! TV Guide Magazine: It absolutely was Jill Phelps who gave the eco-friendly light with this menopause plot however she's out as professional producer. Will your brand-new boss, Frank Valentini, stay with it? Or will Alexis produce a miraculous recovery? Grahn: Frank isn't keen on the idea of Alexis getting menopause as they thinks celebrate her too old. If she changed into some dried-up old hag over this, well, that could be very painful to check out. However, you should not have for the. I'd a great romance in solid existence, a really amazing romance, after i started menopause, therefore i realize it is not the conclusion of existence to be sure it. TV Guide Magazine: However Alexis can longer have unplanned babies with insanely inappropriate males! Grahn: Not unless of course obviously you need the newborn to own three heads. [Laughs] Though that could be a cleaning cleaning soap first! TV Guide Magazine: Really, In my opinion they did that on Passions. Speaking about tweeting items you don't mean, what's happening with this particular, toy? You've gone crazy on Twitter! Do we must stage an intervention?Grahn: I'm a artist, a communicator. It's my method PR personally. It's name is survival, because generally the media isn't considering us cleaning cleaning soap stars. TV Guide Magazine: You've blasted everyone from Vera Wang, because she's a cleaning cleaning soap snob who wouldn't make her dresses available to GH, compared to that poor girl who outshine Lexi Ainsworth for your Daytime Emmy a year ago. Grahn: I used to be pissed! I saw people Emmy tapes. There's no contest. That award was Lexi's. It absolutely was such as these were asking, "Who's more appealing, Jennifer Aniston or Phyllis Diller?" Plus they opened up in the envelope as well as the champion was Phyllis Diller! Don't me wrong, I like Phyllis Diller. But, c'mon, let's be genuine here! And my Vera Wang rant was perfectly deserved. It showed up at 100,000 people. How else is someone at all like me likely to accomplish this plenty of? I'm this really is this is not on magazine covers. I have no voice. Twitter is really a place that i can express a few things i think and acquire some response back. [Laughs] It is a place that i can vent in regards to the Kardashians. Which I've very funny and intelligent people responding in my opinion, it is therefore being an ongoing dialogue, a conversation. TV Guide Magazine: Take it easy this might backfire?Grahn: Essentially do articles regarding cleaning cleaning soap stuff, I have to watch what I believe that because I'm an worker of ABC. I am conscious I'm operating a business getting a sizable company. But you'll find other matters where I have very good opinions that have nothing associated with my job, matters that we absolutely can and may discuss. Like when Jet Air f--ked me over, I mentioned so. When Jet Blue was great in my opinion, I mentioned so. I'm not tweeting boring, stupid such things as, "Hey everyone, it's Sunday!" or "Guess what happens? I'm at Local coffee shop!" I aim to tweet something with content, with value, with humor, something that's intriguing, notable and provocative. I'm trying to help keep myself relevant. I have 37,000 fans that might appear minimal but it's a good deal for daytime people. I have no apologies! TV Guide Magazine: Not even when you gave away that major GH plot spoiler by revealing Mike [Kelly Monaco] was pregnant? Didn't you catch hell for the?Grahn: [Laughs] I did so! I've become at risk a couple of occasions. But certainly what went lower there. I never checked out the show in those days which i thought that news have been out. Fans were Twitter-kidding me. They were asking, "How will you experience your character as being a grandmother?" and "Isn't it great that Sam's pregnant?" And i'm, like, "Oh, yes!" not realizing I used to be verifying it. I used to be rightfully punished with the network. It absolutely was an authentic mistake, I swear. I'd 't be that stupid. TV Guide Magazine: Well, I merely gotta request: How will you experience Alexis as being a grandmother? Grahn: I'm really happy, really. It's this kind of cliché to own grandmother issues. Look, I handled it perfectly when the authors out of the blue made a decision that Mike was Alexis' extended-lost daughter, which basically made my character 110 years old. I'm okay from it. Women, and stars especially, have this kind of problem dealing with age and talking about age. There's this kind of stigma still installed on it, and i'm all for helping wipe that out. If only to create aging stylish. If only to create menopause awesome. [Laughs] Only the moment I stop sweating. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!