The Helena Scene On General Hospital That Went Too Far

With Helena, "too far" can be a relative term. She once took part in a plot to freeze over the world, after all. But trying to kill her own daughter was definitely a fresh form of evil for the villainess. This incident popped up on Soaps.com's list of Helena's 21 most notorious deeds. It's also one of the many reasons TVOM referred to Helena as "a snake" and ranked her the worst villain in GH history. "[S]he will go against her own family, children, women, babies, and anyone else she feels is in her way," Tiffany Rainford wrote in 2019

Back in 2012, a mystery blonde (Alyshia Ochse) was introduced to "GH." She bore the moniker Cassandra, and her elusive ways haunted con artist Ethan Lovett (Nathan Parsons). Ethan eventually learned that Cassandra was an amnesiac living under the care of a private psychiatrist. Ethan and Cassandra fell recklessly in love, with Cassandra insisting all the while she never wanted to learn who she really was.

In reality, "Cassandra" always knew her true identity — she was Irina Cassadine, daughter of Helena and an unnamed man. Helena sent Irina to seduce and then kill Ethan, motivated by the fact that Ethan was the biological son of Holly Sutton (Emma Samms) and Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary). That made him another prime target in the never-ending Spencer-Cassadine feud. To wit, Helena had planned to slay Ethan and claim revenge on Luke for murdering her own sons, Stavros and Stefan.

What Helena didn't count on was Irina falling in love with Ethan along the way and refusing to comply with her mother's nefarious scheme. But Helena had a solution for such insubordination.