In 2020, Kirsten Storms celebrated 15 years of playing quirky Maxie Jones, an often-manipulative character who usually means well but frequently screws up. In her big 2021 story, lies are the name of the game, as Maxie told the entire fictional town of Port Charles that her baby was kidnapped at birth while she's been hiding the infant in plain sight at the Quartermaine mansion to protect her from her villainous father. Even Kelly Monaco's Sam can't understand why Maxie acts so nonchalantly while her child is missing.
When Storms reminisced about her years on the ABC soap after getting her daytime start as Belle Black on "Days of Our Lives" (via IMDb), she lamented that she and Monaco don't get to work together as much as they had in years past. But she also said she thinks she knows why.
"I actually have a conspiracy theory about [why Maxie/Sam scenes are scarce these days]! The last day they gave us regular scenes together, Kelly and I had a bag of cookies and for some reason, we could not keep it together," Storms told Soap Opera Digest. "We were giggling, we couldn't remember our lines, we were giggling some more. ... They kept telling us to quit. Ever since then, we have not really worked together!"
