General Hospital (GH) spoilers tease that viewers got a big reveal last week when Nelle Benson Archer (Chloe Lanier) was shown to be in possession of the other half of Nina Reeves’ (Cynthia Watros) pendant. As GH viewers know, Nina’s mother Madeline Reeves (Donna Mills) left the pendant along with a cryptic note suggesting to Nina that she had a daughter out there somewhere. Nina has long suspected that her daughter has the other half.
Well, when Nelle was shown with the pendant last week, that was huge. And to make the reveal even more huge, Nelle was shown with the pendant in present day as well as in flashbacks from when she was a small child.
A young Nelle was prominently shown wearing the pendant in those flashback scenes, presumably to avoid any doubt that Nelle somehow stumbled upon the pendant later in life.
This all seems like pretty solid evidence that Nelle is indeed Nina’s daughter, yet some fans are still hoping that there could be a twist here and that Nelle isn’t really the long-lost daughter that Madeline apparently sold when Nina was comatose. Of course, it could always be the case that Nelle has had the necklace for all these years even though she ISN’T really Nina’s biological child.
It’s been pretty well established that Frank Benson, who was played by James Patrick Stuart in the recent flashbacks, would do just about anything for a quick buck.
It’s not outside of the realm of possibility that Frank could have been involved in the sale of Nina’s actual child (assuming it wasn’t Nelle) and gained access to the pendant, then gave it to Nelle when she was a young girl. That would explain young Nelle wearing the pendant in the flashback scenes.
However, if that were the case, then there’s just one problem – where’s Nina’s actual daughter? It seems like a stretch that TPTB would go to all these pains to show a young Nelle with the necklace in flashback scenes only to later have another totally unrelated character step in and be Nina’s daughter.
Of course, there is another possibility here, and that’s that Nina actually had more than one child…twins! In fact, upon learning about young Nelle having the half-heart pendant, some fans on Twitter suggested that Willow Tait (Katelyn MacMullen) might still be able to be Nina’s daughter if she and Nelle had been fraternal twins.
Now, that would be quite the story, especially since Willow and Nelle are so intertwined with their babies having been born on the same night.
Plus, Willow and Nelle can’t stand each other, so it would make for an interesting storyline if they were to suddenly find out they were siblings. But it would also be a very messy story, with a lot of details that would need to be explained, and frankly a lot of stretches that would have to be made.
Right now, it hasn’t even been established that Willow was adopted and as far as we know, she’s Harmony Miller’s (Inga Cadranel) biological child. Then there’s the issue of how and why Nelle would have the pendant and not Willow, and why a pendant with two halves would have been given out in the first place if twins had been born.
At any rate, it doesn’t seem like the Nelle/Nina storyline is going in any other direction aside from Nelle being Nina’s biological daughter, but on soaps one should never say never. There are certainly plenty of fans who’d prefer for Nelle and Nina NOT to be mother and daughter, that’s for sure!
What do you think? Are you happy with Nelle being Nina’s daughter, or are you hoping that it’s eventually revealed that she’s not? Stick with CDL for all your General Hospital spoilers and daily recaps, and be sure to tune in to GH on the daily! You don’t want to miss the action that’s coming.