Kirsten Storms’ ex claims mental health crisis in restraining order

“General Hospital” star Kirsten Storms’ ex, Brandon Barash, has filed an emergency restraining order against the 42-year-old actress.

The judge granted Barash’s request, which was first made in December 2025, due to Storms’ “mental health crisis,” according to obtained court documents. People. Months before the filing, Barash claimed Storms told him he was “experiencing delusions and hallucinations.”

Barash, who shares a 12-year-old daughter with Storms, claimed Storms once told her that she “didn’t think she should have the child during parenthood.”

Barash’s current wife, Isabella, helped get Storms hospitalized and placed under psychiatric supervision, according to the documents. Storms allegedly never acknowledged this experience after his release.

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Additionally, according to the documents, Barash claimed that one of Storms’ friends told him he was “hearing repetitive meltdowns, being triggered, things/voices that weren’t there.” The same friend allegedly told him that he believed the actress was abusing Adderall and other substances.

Barash claimed Storms was couch surfing between September 2024 and June 2025 as people “followed her and the child into her room.”

After moving into an apartment in Tennessee, Storms allegedly told Barash that people had broken into her home and put things in her car in an attempt to “mess with her.”

Earlier this month, Storms shared security camera footage on social media, claiming a man had broken into her home.

Storms allegedly suffered a “mental health crisis,” according to court documents. (Christine Bartolucci/Disney via Getty Images)

“The video begins when my ring camera reconnects to Wi-Fi. I’m still hoping the Legacy Cool Spring building can cooperate with the Franklin Police Department so I can have peace of mind about who enters my apartment while I’m out of town.” “Not only is this concerning for me on a personal level, but I am also having to resolve ongoing issues with attempts to access my mobile phone and iCloud accounts.”

On Friday, Storms claimed that she had been evicted from the apartment where she lived.

“After reporting the break-in to the police and continuing to speak with someone at the leasing office regarding said break-in, with no response…the building left an eviction notice on my apartment door,” he wrote. instagram.

Representatives for Storms and Barash did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

In October 2025, Storm announced that he would undergo surgery to treat a brain aneurysm.

Storms, who previously underwent brain surgery in 2021 to remove a non-cancerous cyst that was causing her symptoms, told her Instagram followers at the time that her neurosurgeon monitored another cyst that was not removed in the first surgery and discovered an aneurysm on the right side of her brain during a follow-up scan earlier that year.

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Storms, 42, is the mother of 12-year-old Harper. ((Scott Kirkland/ABC via Getty Images)

The actress admitted that she was “hugely frightened” when the aneurysm was discovered, sharing that she felt like “my brain was kind of rebelling against me.”

Earlier that year, Storms, who has played Maxie on “General Hospital” since 2005, announced she was taking a break from the long-running ABC soap opera to move from Los Angeles to Nashville, Tennessee, with her daughter.

Storms revealed in an Instagram post that health issues contributed to her decision to leave Los Angeles

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The couple divorced in 2016. (Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)

“Aneurysms can (obviously) be caused by stress,” he wrote. “Brain cysts? I believe that’s possible too… and ever since the January scan showed a new but very small depression (aka cyst) in my brainstem, it was clear that I needed to change some things in my life ASAP.”

He continued, “For my own personal reasons, it was very important for me to no longer live in Los Angeles. The biggest reason for the move was Harper, but a big part of it was for my physical and mental health. And my overall happiness.”

Storms also wrote in the caption of her post that she wanted to set the record straight after false online rumors spread about why she was hospitalized.

“A few days after I was discharged from the hospital, someone created a blog post saying that I was in the hospital that weekend because I was trying to ‘devitalize’ myself,” he wrote.

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“I couldn’t understand why someone who had no idea why I was actually there would make up something so terrible,” Storms continued. “There really are a few bad apples out there. We all know that… but there are people in my life that I’m truly grateful to have known.”

Fox News Digital’s Ashley Hume contributed to this post.