Dr. Jeff Webber and Heather Grant, are fictional characters and divorced couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Jeff was most notably portrayed by Richard Dean Anderson, and is currently by William R. Moses. Heather was most notably portrayed by Robin Mattson, and is currently by Alley Mills.
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Jeff Webber visits Heather in the hospital (1977)
In 1976, Dr. Jeffrey "Jeff" Webber's thought-dead brother, Dr. Richard "Rick" Webber, turned up alive, revealing he had been captured by African revolutionaries during a civil war and held prisoner for ten months. Jeff's then-wife, Dr. Monica Bard, and Rick were still in love. Jeff grew angry and jealous as his wife's and brothers feelings developed into an affair. In response, he had an affair with Heather Grant, a scheming nanny who wanted Jeff to herself. She became pregnant but told no one.
In 1977, Jeff had a slow recovery from a bullet wound after being shot. Out of guilt, Monica reconciled with him. When Heather revealed to Jeff she was pregnant, Jeff told her to abort the baby so he could still be with Monica. Heather responded by faking a suicide attempt and demanding Jeff leave Monica.
He refused. Heather then opted to move to New York City, where she gave birth to the baby and sell it to Peter and Diana Taylor for $10,000, though she told Jeff the baby had died. Monica, meanwhile, was shaken by Rick asking Dr. Lesley Sullivan to marry him, and so Monica asked Jeff for a divorce. On the rebound, Jeff asked Heather to marry him, especially after learning their child had died.
They were engaged from 1977-78, and married from 1978-81.
In 1978, Jeff and Heather married, but early into their marriage, the newlyweds saw very little of each other as Heather had become the nanny of her own child, Peter "P.J." Taylor, Jr. and Jeff was studying for his license. Soon, Heather discovered she was pregnant again. Jeff announced if the baby was a boy, he wanted to name him Steven Lars. Heather, however, lost the baby.
In the winter of 1979, Dr. Steve Hardy fell ill with deadly Lassa Fever. His wife, Nurse Audrey Hardy, told Jeff that Steve was his biological father. Meanwhile, Heather became obsessed with seeing her son sold to the Taylors. Heather planned to put LSD in Diana Taylor's drink and make her go insane.
Unfortunately, the glasses were switched and Heather drank the LSD. She began to wildly hallucinate. Jeff had no choice but to ship her off to a sanitarium. It was then revealed baby P.J. Taylor was really Jeff's son Steven "Steve" Lars Webber. Dr. Peter Taylor died of a heart attack when he heard. In order to keep from losing her adopted son, Diana Maynard married Jeff, who was still unaware the child was his.
In 1981, Diana finally revealed to him P.J. was his son. Shortly thereafter Diana was killed by Heather's mother, Alice Grant, who had tried to frame Annie Logan for the murder. Following this, Jeff took his son Steve and left Port Charles, later asking Heather for a divorce because he found someone else.
They have been estranged since 1979 and are now divorced.
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