Starr Quality
Soap Opera Digest|September 23, 2019
Soap Alum Kristen Alderson Is Grateful To Have Grown Up On Daytime.
Mara Levinsky
Starr Quality

“It’ll be five years in January, which is so bizarro,” says Kristen Alderson of her surprise decision to exit GH back in 2015. A daytime mainstay since she was cast as Starr on ONE LIFE TO LIVE at the tender age of 6 back in 1998, the actress notes, “It had been 18 straight years of me being on a soap opera. It was a crazy decision. I don’t know what came over me, but it was like an Oprah ‘Aha!’ moment, like, ‘This is my time to go.’ ”

A desire to nurture her life away from work prompted the choice, she explains. “[GH] wanted me to stay for three more years and I was fully ready to sign up. But my mom and brother had just moved back to Philly,” where Alderson was born and raised, “and I started to worry, like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to deal with not having any family out here.’ And there were things going on back home that I didn’t want to miss out on — like, my cousin’s daughter had just been born and I wanted to watch her grow up, and my friends got shore houses over the summer, and I was like, ‘Okay, in three years, they’re, like, going to be getting engaged. That might not be there for me in three years.’ I really needed to take that time to live, like, a normal life, to kind of live through things that I knew wouldn’t be there later. I just followed my gut.”

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