Eden McCoy and Laura Wright’s Most Devastating Breakup Story!

General Hospital’s Carly Spencer (Laura Wright) had the mother of all confrontations recently…with her daughter, Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy)!

Joss discovered that her mama was harboring fugitive Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart) and knew about her not-so-covert employment with the WSB.

Confronted by her little girl over her life choices, Carly and Josslyn had it out in her kitchen, and no one’s clear if their relationship can be repaired. The emotional fallout from the blowout is still resonating with both blondes.

In an interview with ABC11, McCoy explained:

Her devastation is really getting behind the fact that it’s not the same relationship. It can’t be the same relationship. It doesn’t matter if she wants it to be. And then the heartbreak for the character of Carly is, ‘My daughter is capable of doing something like this.

She’s capable of keeping this from me. She’s capable of making her own choices, and I don’t have to like them.’ And there’s nothing wrong with that, to be honest.

McCoy noted that what went down with Josslyn and Carly can’t be just shrugged off. Where do you think their relationship will (or won’t) go from here?

When Carly established the ground rules for her relationship with Brennan, she made clear that she was okay with secrets, but not lies. But given her many marriages to mobster Sonny, it’s certainly in her wheelhouse to be with a man who can’t be fully transparent with her about his line of work.

While that frequently frustrated a younger Carly, “It’s different [with Brennan],” Wright insists. “She’s not that age anymore.

Carly has buried a son [Morgan], she’s had two daughters since then…. And there’s a comfort in how Brennan [approaches it]. Sonny was like, ‘Get out, Carly!’ there was an aggressiveness to their relationship at that time.”

Not only that, Wright notes, but “Carly had a lot of insecurity as a young woman. Well, now she’s a very successful businesswoman and a mother and she doesn’t need anything from Brennan. She doesn’t need him in order to survive.

And so his honesty about not being able to tell her everything about his job is, I think, something that Carly feels she can depend on, and is consistent, and he’s not being a [jerk] about it! He’s not saying, ‘I get to do what I want.’ He’s not yelling at her or speaking to her the way that Sonny spoke to Carly back in that day.

In this day and age, the woman that Carly is, she does not get spoken to like that, right? Brennan treats her with respect, which is a very big deal.

“So, in a lot of ways, I think it’s very different this time,” the actress continues. “And it makes sense. It’s his job! If she was dating someone in the CIA, it’d be the same thing.

It’s called, ‘Grow up, Carly! It’s a big girl’s life, that someone has a job you’re choosing to date and quite frankly, why do you need to know about his job?’ And he’s very honest about it — until he’s not [laughs].”

Of course, at the moment it’s nowhere on Carly’s radar that Josslyn is working with Brennan — not even when she voiced her concerns about her mom taking up with the guy.

“She has to see Josslyn as just one more person that’s just worried about her mom’s safety,” Wright shrugs. “We can’t go there, story-wise, because when we do go there [and the truth comes out], it’s got to be just a complete smack in the face.”

The Right Moves: Carly has fallen hard for Brennan, unaware the secret he’s keeping could hit her close to home.