General Hospital Spoilers: Lexi Ainsworth OUT! Kate Mansi Takes Over Role Of Kristina Corinthos

General Hospital (GH) spoilers reveal that Days of Our Lives alum Kate Mansi (Abigail DiMera) has taken over the legacy character of Kristina Corinthos-Davis. Lexi Ainsworth had been in the pivotal role, the Port Charles, New York daughter of Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn).

Soap Opera Digest broke the news minutes ago and there was zero forewarning of the dramatic casting change. Needless to say, daytime fans are blowing up the internet over the shocking recast news.

General Hospital spoilers: Dramatic Casting Change
According to the outlet, GH fans have seen the last of Ainsworth whose final airdate was April 27. Emmy award winner Mansi will debut in the role of the troubled young woman on May 22. Kristina’s turbulent life has included joining a cult from which she had to be kidnapped and deprogrammed.

GH spoilers: Kate Mansi Replaces Lexi Ainsworth
There is no backstory given as to why the casting change took place and Ainsworth had been in the role 2009. At this time Kristina is running a bar in town and the rumor mill is churning with dish that Kristina will be a surrogate for her sister Molly Lansing-Davis (Hayley Pullos).

Molly and her husband TJ Ashford (Taj Bellow) are having trouble conceiving a child and it looks like the assistant DA has endometriosis which will block her chances of carrying a child.

General Hospital spoilers: Lexi Ainsworth Out
Of course having Kristina be a surrogate mother will bring all kinds of dramarama, as she hasn’t been the most stable of Alexis’ daughters, but then again, who has with that Cassadine inspired gene pool?

If Kristina is a surrogate for her sister she will do so without having conceived a child of her own and we can see all sorts of attachment and obsession issues surfacing along with the hormones. But hey, the soaptastic stories are why watch soaps, right?

Mansi starred on DOOL as Abigail DiMera, another soapy heroine with a conflicted past including a bout of DID.

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