Kristen Alderson Checking Out of 'General Hospital'

Kristen Alderson

Emmy winning actress Kristen Alderson is leaving ABC daytime drama General Hospital as Kiki Jerome, according to Soap Opera Digest, who reports the actress will wrap her run very soon.

Alderson joined the cast of One Life to Live in 1998 as Starr Manning, a role she played until the show went off the air in January 2012. A month later, Alderson crossed over in character to General Hospital.

In 2013, after a legal dispute between ABC and Prospect Park over the rights to the character, she briefly left GH and returned in a new role, Kiki Jerome.

Chad Duell (Michael), Alderson's real-life boyfriend, tweeted that it was Alderson's decision to leave GH.