let’s face it: Nobody is going to mistake GENERAL HOSPITAL’s Ava Jerome for Mother Teresa. But even the scheme queen was thrown for a loop when evidence began mounting that made it look as if she’d planted the car bomb which killed Sonny’s troubled son, Morgan. “She was confused,” says portrayer Maura West, “but I found those scenes sort of delightful, because I thought, ‘For once, she didn’t do it!’ She was insisting that they had the wrong girl, and it wasn’t a lie!” West, always thrilled by a chal lenge, enjoyed figuring out how to play Ava’s bafflement. “Usually, she’s lying, fibbing or telling halftruths,” laughs the actress. “She’s always covering her tracks, but in this case, she honestly had no clue what was going on! One thing she…
