General Hospital's Nancy Lee Grahn defends former co-star Haley Pullos after ... trends now

General Hospital star Nancy Lee Grahn has come to the defense of her former onscreen daughter, Haley Pullos, in the wake of Pullos's DUI arrest and subsequent jail sentencing.

Pullos, 25, was sentenced to three months after pleading no contest to a DUI charge stemming from a 2023 car crash that occurred while she was driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, traveling the wrong way on a Los Angeles freeway.

The 68-year-old soap opera icon took to  X on Monday to write: 'As Haley’s TV mom I can tell some truth about her as I’ve loved her since she was a little girl. She made a HUGE mistake, knows it, owns it & has spent the last yr doing EVERYTHING imaginable to take responsibility 4 it.'

She added: 'It's not that I oppose jail. It's that I oppose this jail.' 

Shortly after her arrest, Pullos, who portrayed Molly Lansing, the youngest daughter of Grahn's character Alexis Davis, was released from General Hospital, where she first joined in 2009.

The actress will also have to serve five years probation, 200 hours of community service and pay more than $8,000 in restitution to the injured driver whose car she smashed into.

Pullos – whom prosecutors told the court had a blood alcohol level of 0.25 per cent, more than three times the legal limit – originally pleaded not guilty to two DUI charges and another count of hit-and-run following the April 2023 accident.

But in a deal with LA's District Attorney Monday, she changed her plea to no contest on one DUI and in exchange, the DA dropped the other one plus the hit and run.

Pullos – wearing a beige jacket and blouse and light brown pants – told Pasadena Court Judge Terry Smerling: 'Yes, your honor,' when he asked her if she understood that the consequences of pleading no contest, carry the same weight as a guilty plea.

And she showed little emotion as Sheriff's deputies handcuffed her hands behind her back and led her to the cells while her mother, Judy Pullos, looked on sobbing.

Deputy District Attorney Melany Avanessians, explaining the plea deal to the court Monday, said that after Pullos has served three months in jail, she will be brought back to court for a sentencing hearing on July 29.

At that hearing, she will be placed on probation for five years, begin serving 200 hours of community service, and have her driver's license suspended for a year.

She will also be ordered to stay – for a period still to be determined – in a drug and alcohol rehab program she has already been attending for several months.