‘General Hospital’s Kirsten Storms Shares Big Life Update Amid Custody Battle With Ex Brandon Barash

General Hospital alum Kirsten Storms returned to social media on Sunday (July 19) with a lengthy update on her life, including her ongoing custody battle with ex Brandon Barash, her health issues, and her future away from acting.

Storms began her Instagram post by talking about her move to Tennessee. She relocated from California last year so that she and Barash could co-parent their daughter, Harper Rose (12). The soap star said that moving to Tennessee was the best choice for her at this period of her life.

“Despite everything that’s been going on in my life right now (…and I will be honest, it’s more than upsetting) – I still feel that the move to Tennessee was the best choice for me,” she wrote. “I might not be at the *best part* of this choice yet, but LA never felt like my real home.”

She went on to say she was “really f****** proud of the accomplishments” she’s achieved during her acting career, but hinted at life beyond Hollywood. “I spent years working nonstop and feeling envious of anyone who lived in ‘the real world,'” she stated, adding, “I’m proud of myself for handling the majority of that on my own…but that life became the ONLY thing I knew how to do. Or thought I was capable of.”

Storms said her perspective changed when she welcomed her daughter. “Then I had Harper, and how I viewed every single thing in life shifted,” she shared. “I swear I’m not going to continue to bring up my medical situation (I’ll make jokes and it will be awkward), but until I began to understand how precious time is and how what we prioritize becomes ALL we have, there was never a thought that my life would ever change.”

Kirsten Storms and Brandon Barash attend 2013 Summer TCA Tour; Paul A. Hebert/Getty Images

The Daytime Emmy-nominated actress revealed she’d been diagnosed with a brain cyst in 2021 and had a brain aneurysm in 2025. She’s frequently detailed her health problems and treatments on social media over the years.

Before ending the post, Storms wrote, “I will briefly acknowledge that there is an ongoing situation with Brandon that will be getting sorted out (soon hopefully). I would appreciate (and encourage) for people on here not to worry about me, or think there is something larger going on, other than 2 ex-spouses dealing with a “disagreement”, that WILL be resolved.”

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Storms and her former General Hospital co-star, Barash, divorced in 2016. In April, Barash obtained an emergency restraining order against Storms after he claimed she was suffering from a mental health crisis. Court documents obtained by Us Weekly showed that Barash also filed for custody of Harper.

“I’m not the type of person to come on here and discuss the details of something this personal (or offensive to who I am), however before you guys starting commenting on this, please remember that we are people who are divorced and have a child,” Storms wrote.

She concluded, “I appreciate the supportive comments, but now that my daughter is of the age where she will Google her name while riding the bus to school, I’m asking that the speculation on this issue please stop.”