History of Heather Webber:
Oy, what a witch. It's not so much what Heather did - what DIDN'T she do? Her only problem was, she was fairly stupid. Played by Georgiane LaPiere (sister of Cher), Mary O'Brien and Robin Mattson respectively, Heather Grant appeared on the scene as a nanny from hell hired by Diana Taylor. She immediately went after Monica's then-husband Jeff. With scheming and manipulation, she got him into the sack and played every villainess' trump card - the pregnancy one. By then, though, Jeff and Monica had reconciled and they wanted the baby.
So Heather faked suicide. When that didn't make the desired impression, she decided to sell the baby, Steven Lars, to the Taylors. That sort of didn't work out either so she ended up taking $500 from Jeff and going to New York City to pursue a career in modeling, the first anyone had heard of this grand illusion. There she hooked up with a ruthless landlady, Mrs. Hadley, who convinced Heather to go back to the original plan of selling the baby to the Taylors, now using Hadley as the baby's grandmother so they wouldn't know he was Heather's, taking the $10,000 and going to Hollywood. Well, after a lawyer helped rig a fake adoption and Mr. Hadley took her cut, Heather really didn't have enough for even a bus trip to LA. So when Jeff showed up looking for his child she said Steven Lars was dead. Feeling sorry for her, Jeff proposed. Once back home, Heather was able to spend time with the Taylors and their adopted son P.J., once known as Steven Lars. She wanted him back, probably to re-sell him, so she tried to drive Diana crazy, finally spiking Diana's iced tea with LSD. Except there was a mix-up and Heather drank it herself and ended up in an asylum. For a while she faked catatonia by day and by night dressed as nurse Shelley Vernon, whom she resembled, and ran around Port Charles spying on people. She found out Jeff had a new girlfriend, Anne Logan.
When Heather was finally released she said she couldn't remember her past - I mean, wouldn't you? She wanted to kill Diana but in order to do that, she had to fake hysteria and get back to the sanitarium for her alibi. There she hid the gun in a doll and did the Shelley by night thing. Diana winds up dead - we find out later it wasn't Heather, but Heather's mom who did it when she thought Diana was going to kill Heather. Like who could blame Diana. It's her mother whose actions I question. Heather wrote Anne's name in Diana's blood so she'd be accused, but detective Joe Kelly, who for reasons known only to himself fell in love with Heather, finds out the truth. Heather doesn't go down for the murder but she's in plenty of trouble anyway. Even when Heather screwed things up she made more trouble than almost anyone else.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
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