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Cole was angry when Starr took her father's side, especially since Todd had told Cole that Starr would always side with her father. When Hannah showed up at the apartment, thinking Cole was there, Starr invited her in and called Hannah out for trying to make the moves on Cole.

After Marty was pushed down a flight of stairs, causing her to lose her unborn baby, she blamed Todd for the crime. Cole lashed out at Starr, saying how her father has always had it out for Marty and him. Starr refused to believe that Todd would have pushed Marty, causing a huge rift between Starr and Cole. Starr was stunned when Cole showed up at the school and beat Todd unconscious after Hannah, who had eavesdropped on Cole and Starr's argument, said she had seen Todd push Marty.

Todd recovered, while Cole was arrested for attempted murder. Starr didn't believe Hannah's eyewitness account and later concluded that Hannah might have pushed Marty herself to pin the deed on Todd and split up Starr and Cole. Cole refused to believe Hannah would so such a thing.

Starr attended the prom, although she was in no mood to celebrate, but then she got a pleasant surprise when Cole showed up, having won a one-night reprieve from jail. They enjoyed their time together, but by the next morning, they were arguing again about Todd and Hannah. Starr was stunned to learn from Langston that Langston had been lying the entire time about not seeing Ford.

Even though she was upset at Langston, Starr told Langston that she would not turn her back on her best friend. After another fight over Todd and Hannah, Cole told Starr to stop going to see him.

While in a park with Hope, Starr met a handsome young man named James and opened up to him about all the troubles in her life. Starr ran into James yet again when she was having car trouble. James fixed her car but then sped off with Starr and Hope inside as a man was chasing after him.

Outside of town, Starr forced James to pull over, and she drove away, hoping never to see him again. After Starr received her high school diploma, James grabbed her and told her she was in danger because the man who was after him had retrieved her purse from the hospital parking garage and knew where Starr lived.

Starr took James to her Aunt Viki's cabin on Llantano Mountain, where James told Starr that his father had forced him into the car stealing business when he was 15 years old. His father had gotten abusive when James resisted.

James' mother had left when he was very young, and his older brother had escaped by getting a college scholarship. James said he was hoping to get his GED at Llanview University, where his brother was a teaching assistant, but when he got to town he had learned that his brother was in the hospital.

Starr then realized that James' brother was Robert Ford. James had stolen the money from his father and intended to pay him back, but his father had sent one of his hired goons to retrieve the cash. Starr called home to let her family know she was okay and was surprised when Cole answered. He had just gotten out of jail on bail and wanted Starr to return home, but she said she needed some time away and hung up.

Starr told James her father had purchased her an expensive car for her graduation and she would collect the cash instead of the car to help him pay off his debt. But when the car dealer refused to make the trade, Starr stole the car with James's help. After wrecking the car, they wound up at a bar outside town where one of Todd's private investigators showed up looking for them. Starr recognized the P. Later, Starr distracted the investigator while James stole his car keys, and they made their second getaway.

James went to meet his father's hired gun, Bull, unaware that Bull had kidnapped Nate Salinger, the teenager who had found the stolen money and taken it for himself. As Todd and Bull struggled over Bull's gun, Starr grabbed the gun and fired, accidentally shooting James.

James survived the shooting, but Starr had a tough time explaining her adventure to Cole. Cole had gone through his own ordeal, getting conned by Hannah into believing that Starr and James had become lovers before realizing that Hannah was lying.

Cole told Starr that Hannah had confessed to lying about Todd pushing Marty down the stairs, and an elated Starr told her father the good news. Starr and Cole tried to return to domestic life, but Starr felt a connection to James, who told her how much fun he'd had on the run with her. Starr and Cole continued to bicker whenever Hannah's name was brought up, and Cole finally admitted to Starr that he had nearly slept with Hannah when he thought Starr was having an affair with James.

Starr was furious, even though Cole insisted he didn't have feelings for Hannah. Starr struggled over her own feelings for James and eventually told Cole that they had kissed while on the run, but she insisted she didn't have feelings for James. After Starr found James crying on a park bench, James kissed her and told her he wanted to be more than friends. Starr admitted to Cole that she had feelings for James, while Cole acknowledged he had feelings for Hannah.

But they both remained committed to making their relationship work. Starr was surprised to learn the court had dropped all charges against Hannah for accusing Todd of pushing Marty. Cole told Starr that Hannah was living with Marty, but that he would stay away from her.

As Dani packed her things, James and Nate sneaked in through the window and helped Dani escape. Later, Cole grilled Starr for getting involved with James yet again and stormed off.

Starr returned to the apartment to find Eli there, having killed Hope's babysitter Carla. The girls convinced Eli to go to a nearby hospital to get help for his gunshot wound, and they went to the Cherryvale Clinic. As Dani went inside to get bandages and medicine, Starr and Hope escaped when Eli passed out in the waiting car.

Starr called Cole's cell phone, but Hannah answered it, explaining that Cole had just gone off to find Starr. Starr and Hope waited for Cole to arrive at the clinic, but Starr was stunned when Hannah appeared instead. Starr woke up in a locked attack with Hope nearby, unharmed.

Starr slowly realized that Hannah had locked up her and Hope, and she was unable to break free, despite numerous attempts. Starr rigged a box to hit Hannah when she opened the door, but instead the box knocked out James when Hannah brought him to the attic at gunpoint.

Hannah then forced Starr and James to dress up in Halloween costumes and dig their own graves at a graveyard while Hannah kept a gun on them and Hope. When James tried to grab Hannah's gun, Hannah knocked him out and pushed him into the open grave and forced Starr to cover him with dirt. Just as Hannah was about to shoot Starr, James reached out from beneath the ground and grabbed Hannah's leg. Hannah fell to the ground, and Starr hit her over the head with a shovel.

Freed at last, Starr thanked James, giving him a kiss on the cheek, before returning to Cole with Hope in her arms. Starr was devastated when Cole admitted that he had shot and killed Eli when he believed that Starr and Hope had died in the warehouse explosion.

James told Cole and Starr that Marty had confessed to killing Eli but that the police knew Cole had done it. Cole and Starr fled to a nearby hotel, and Starr told Cole they should move far away with Hope and start a new life together.

When Starr went to take a shower, Cole left the hotel room and turned himself in to the police. Cole pleaded guilty in court to killing Eli and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Before heading to Statesville, Cole broke up with Starr and urged her not to wait for him, but Starr rejected his request and vowed to wait for Cole to be released.

She impulsively threw herself at James in an attempt to take away the pain of losing Cole, but James told Starr he didn't want to be with her on the rebound. Starr was tricked by Todd into signing a restraining order that kept Marty from seeing Hope. She told Marty she would have the order reversed, but Marty blamed Starr for Cole going to prison because Starr was pining after James. Starr tried to remain detached from James but kept getting pulled back into his orbit.

When Eddie turned up murdered, Starr feared James may have pulled the trigger. James told the police that he threatened to shoot Eddie and even fired the gun into the wall behind him.

But James told Starr that he couldn't kill his father because he would go to jail and leave Starr alone, like Cole had done. Starr told James he needed to see other people, since she had made a commitment to wait for Cole to be released from prison.

But Starr got jealous when she saw James with another student, Michelle. Starr finally decided that it wasn't fair to herself to wait for Cole, so she went to Statesville on Valentine's Day and broke up with him. Starr went to tell James but saw Michelle coming out of James' apartment partially dressed and assumed they had slept together.

Dani and Nate ran away when Todd found them about to have sex, and Starr and James tracked them down at Viki's cabin. Nate blurted out that James and Michelle weren't seeing each other, and Starr admitted that she had broken up with Cole but didn't say anything because she thought James was already taken.

The two decided to pursue a relationship. Starr was grief-stricken when Todd was shot outside Rodi's and went into a coma. Then she had to say goodbye to Langston, who moved to Los Angeles to work on a screenplay about David Vickers' life. She intervened when she learned that Jack had been bullying Shane Morasco, to the point where Shane had nearly died from an asthma attack after Jack had stolen his inhaler.

Starr fended off advances at James from her cousin Jessica, who was under the influence of her alter Tess. Then Starr learned that James' ex-girlfriend, Deanna, had come to town and was staying with James in the Ford apartment. Starr invited Deanna to stay the night at La Boulaie and was relieved when Deanna later said she was going to move back to Dayton. But Deanna later told James and Starr that she was going to stay in Llanview, because there was nothing left for her in Dayton.

Deanna moved in with Nate, and Dani told Starr she worried that something was going on between them. Starr was relieved when Todd woke up from his coma. Starr met an obnoxious teenager named Baz who swiped her iPod and replaced all the music with tunes he favored.

Starr wanted to be mad but she liked the tunes, especially when Baz revealed that the songs were his own compositions. Blair allowed Baz to use the music equipment at Capricorn to record his songs, and Starr agreed to sing on one of his tracks.

Starr was pleased that Hope took a liking to Baz and confided in him that Hope lashed out at James whenever she saw him. Baz and Starr shared the same attraction to reptiles. While out in the park, Baz impulsively kissed Starr. Starr chided him, reminding Baz that she had a boyfriend. Starr didn't know what to think when she overheard Sam talking to someone at Dorian's pool and he claimed that the person was a man with a line on his face, much like the scar on her father's face before his plastic surgery.

When an unidentified dead man turned up at La Boulaie, Sam told John that his friend had killed the man to protect him. Sam then identified his friend from a photo of Todd with his original face. Starr was stunned when Tomas told the family that Todd was an imposter and a man with Todd's original face appeared, claiming to be the real Todd Manning.

Starr seemed initially persuaded by the man, who called her Shorty and seemed to remember many details of her life. But she also realized that many of the facts were common knowledge and could have been memorized.

Jack sided with Todd, putting him at odds with his sister. Starr hypothesized that the men were identical twins, although that didn't explain why they both believed they were Todd. The truth came out when the police located Starr's grandmother, Irene Manning, who had faked her death in the s and became the leader of a covert CIA operation in Louisiana. Irene revealed that both men were twins and that the man who had lived for the past eight years as Todd was actually Todd's twin brother, Victor Lord Jr.

Starr was dumfounded when Todd told her the news, but she quickly believed that it was true. Victor didn't want to believe it and at first even lied to his family that he was the real Todd, but Starr revealed the truth.

Starr and Jack butted heads when Jack refused to accept Todd as his father, while Starr quickly accepted Todd back into her life. Life took a tragic turn when Victor Jr. Todd was arrested after Jack put him at the scene of the crime, but Starr believed in her father's innocence.

When Todd told Starr that his mother Irene was setting him up and threatened to kill the entire family, Starr helped him break out of jail. Todd then shot and killed Irene after hearing an explosion and believing his family was dead. Starr's relationship with James was complicated by her budding music career. Starr worked with Baz to record a song, "One Life to Live," and was excited to learn that a record company was interested in the single.

But Starr balked after learning that the company representative was Rick Powers, a sleazy porn producer. Baz signed the record deal with Rick behind Starr's back and then moved to Paris, so Starr was forced to work with Rick if she had any hope of launching her career.

Rick used Starr's sordid family history as fodder to sell her as a bad girl. Although Starr objected with his methods, she was pleased by the reception to the single and agreed to work with him on another song she had written, entitled "Jailbait. The teens confronted him and Rick broke his leg during a freak fall. Afterwards, Rick sued the teens claiming that they had intentionally caused his injuries. Starr convinced her father to pay off Rick to drop the lawsuit, but Rick refused the money.

Rick wanted to work with Starr, and since he owned the rights to anything she wrote, Starr was forced to agree to work with him. On New Year's Eve , Starr was stunned when Cole showed up at the front door, having just escaped from Statesville Prison during a major breakout. Cole told Starr he wanted to see Hope one last time before leaving to find his parents, explaining that he had received a letter in jail telling him that his father was alive and was with his mother.

Starr reluctantly hid Cole in the cabana until she could figure out what to do. Starr lied to James and to the police, who showed up looking for Cole. After James had left, Starr went into the cabana and Cole pulled her into a passionate kiss. Starr pulled away but then they kissed again. She saw this as a way of getting Mitch out of the way so that Victor could work his way into Todd's life. Her planned worked for eight years, until Todd escaped and came back to town.

The real Todd goes straight to Starr and tells her what Irene said. Starr is dumbfounded, but overjoyed. Todd then meets his granddaughter Hope for the first time and quickly bonds with her. Victor doesn't want to believe the truth, he even has trouble comprehending it. He has lived for the past eight years believing he's Todd Manning, and now he finds out he's not.

He plans on taking all of them, along with Sam and Hope to Hawaii, but Starr tells everyone that he's lying. She says that the other man is the real Todd Manning. Victor tells his wife that he wishes he were Todd Manning, and he worries that the kids won't love him anymore. All three of them though, tell him that they still love him.

Jack and Danielle even continue to call him "dad. On August 30, Victor is shot in the chest by an unseen assailant. Jack lies to the police and tells them that he saw Todd at the scene of the crime. Todd is arrested and put in the cell right across from that of his mother, Irene.

Irene is later released, but Todd gets a note from her saying she's going to kill everyone he loves. When Starr comes to see Todd in lockup, he convinces her to break him out of jail.

Starr orchestrates his breakout, having him fake a heart attack. When the guards go to check on him, she grabs one of their guns and has Todd gag and handcuff them. They go to Victor's house, where much of their family is; and Todd sees that they are okay, so he goes to find Irene. Irene shoots Todd in the shoulder, then he hears an explosion. Irene tells him that it was a bomb she had set at Victor's house. Believing that she had killed his family, Todd shoots and kills his mother.

They are not dead, however, and Starr is arrested for breaking Todd out of jail. She stays in jail for a while, while Todd is still on the lose. Todd is later exonerated when Jack confesses that he had lied when he said he saw Todd at Victor's house that night.

The investigation continues for months, although Todd actually remembers that he really did kill his brother and had blocked it out. He thinks that Irene had made him do it. On New Year's Eve , there's a blackout. Just after midnight on New Year's Day , Starr is stunned when Cole shows up at her door, wearing his prison jumpsuit. He tells her that there was a major jailbreak when the power went out and he went straight there to see her and Hope.

He says he plans to leave to go live with his parents, who are living elsewhere. Starr reluctantly hides Cole, and when Sam finds him, he covers with the police when they came looking. When Starr and Cole return to the house, they find Hannah O'Connor, who has also escaped from prison. She's holding Sam and has Todd at gunpoint. When she sees Cole, she tells him that she came to look for him, that she wants to be with him. Cole tells her what she wants to hear and she puts Sam down.

Then Todd grabs Sam and runs out of the room with him to safety. Cole winds up shot, and is rushed to the hospital while Todd holds Hannah at gunpoint until the police come to get her. Cole nearly dies, and Todd ends up faking his death.

He even prints in his paper The Sun that Cole has died. In actuality, Todd sends Cole to live with his parents. Later, Starr is offered a recording opportunity in Los Angeles.

She tearfully says goodbye to her family, takes Hope, and moves to LA. She confesses that Cole is actually alive, but that she will probably never see him again. Then, there's a knock at the door, and it's Cole. Todd has sent Cole to be with Starr and Hope. She has trouble coming to grips with the fact that she'll have to raise his baby without him, and leans on John as a friend for help and support.

Todd and Blair reconnect and finally get close again, while Todd bonds with Victor's only child Sam. The police finally get proof that Todd really did kill Victor; and while Todd and Blair are finally making love, John McBain and team barge in on them to arrest Todd for Victor's murder.

However, Victor is revealed to be alive and being held captive by Allison Perkins, who had escaped from prison in the breakout on New Year's Eve. Starr arrives in Port Charles with her boyfriend Cole and their daughter Hope when their plane from Los Angeles to Llanview, Pennsylvania is diverted there because of weather. The entire time, Hope is sleeping in the backseat.

Meanwhile, Anthony Zacchara is speeding the opposite direction down the same road with someone, seemingly Sonny Corinthos, following after him. Someone shoots out Anthony's tires, causing him to swerve into oncoming traffic, hitting Starr and Cole's car. The car comes to rest along the guard rail, and Starr is able to get out, but Cole and Hope are trapped inside. Michael Corinthos arrives and finds Starr on the side of the road and promises to save her daughter and boyfriend, but he is unable to.

The car goes over the cliff and explodes on impact, killing Cole and Hope. Starr loses consciousness and Michael takes her to General Hospital. He feels responsible for her and guilty that he couldn't save Cole and Hope. He vows to find who caused the crash. Later, Starr tells Todd that Anthony had told her that Sonny was the one who shot out his tires, and Todd vows to take care of the situation.

Later, Starr checks herself out of the hospital and leaves with Michael to go to the courthouse after she learns Sonny is being arraigned. When they get there, Todd is holding a gun on Sonny, threatening to kill him. John McBain comes in and arrests Todd for jumping bail and takes him back to Llanview to stand trial for Victor's murder. She goes to Michael's apartment, and he offers to let her sleep on his couch, which she accepts. Sonny comes over and tells Michael to stay away from Starr.

Michael assures his father that he will, but Starr is actually hiding around the corner listening as Michael lies to his father. Michael and Starr begin to get closer, as he comforts her when she breaks down at the thought of her boyfriend and daughter being dead.

After Sonny is acquitted, Starr tells Michael that she is leaving Port Charles, but instead she goes to see Johnny Zacchara , who buys her recording contract. Starr later steals Johnny's gun, kidnaps Sonny at gunpoint, and takes him to the spot where Hope and Cole died. She points the gun at Sonny and threatens to kill him when Michael arrives and convinces Starr to put the gun down.

Michael then has Starr arrested for attempted murder. Todd overhears Kate Howard telling her attorney Alexis Davis that her alter Connie was responsible for shooting out Anthony's tires and causing the wreck that killed Hope and Cole. Todd then blackmails Sonny, saying he won't turn Kate in or print malicious material about her in his tabloid if he gets Michael to recant his statement about the attempted murder.

Ultimately, Michael recants and Starr is released from jail. In the summer of , Michael and Starr build a friendship. Later, they agree to start dating slowly. At the end of October, Starr and Michael start being serious and decide to make love. Reeling with loss, Starr took comfort in a stranger, Walker Lawrence.

Soon after, Walker confided in Starr that he was in fact Todd, who had a total face job! With Todd's identity revealed, Starr and Blair's relationship began to falter. Blair was furious that Todd had allowed them to believe he was dead, in turn she and didn't allow Starr to see her father, setting Starr down a rebellious path. She found herself in trouble on Internet chatrooms, ran away to New York City to see a boy she met online and ended up kidnapped!

In the end, her parents rescued her and brought Starr back to Llanview where they all became a family. After Spencer Truman framed her father for murder, Starr had to face the day of his execution! However, just when word came that Todd had been put to death, new evidence surfaced that proved him to be innocent! Ironically, her mother begged Spencer to bring Todd back to life and her father lived! Being the daughter of Todd Manning made Starr's school life difficult.

She was constantly reminded of her parents' past mistakes and of her father's biggest sin - rape. Starr soon starting dating a boy named Cole. Schuyler did not want to get with Starr at any point.

He felt feelings for her like a friend. He cared about her, but James not only cares about Starr; he really does have feelings for her and wants to be with her. The relationship is quickly threatened with the introduction of Jamess ex-girlfriend, Deanna and Starrs music producer, Baz Moreau.

Baz seems to have feelings for Starr, but she quickly rejects him because she is dating James. After causing a bit of trouble for the couple, and breaking up Starrs sister Danielles relationship with Nate, Deena leaves town. Upon the serials cancellation, many began speculate that Cole would return to the series in time for the finale. However, the show is forced to abandon those plans and quickly recast the role with actor Van Hughes due to Buddy being unable to continue taping.

However, many wondered what would happen to Cole and Hope. Viewers are shocked in late February when Starr survives a fatal car accident that kills Cole and Hope. Alderson responded to the decision on Twitter urging fans not to blame head-writer Ron Carlivati revealing that both Buddy and Hughes were unavailable to continue in the role of Cole. Alderson promised her fans that the storyline would definitely lead to greater possibilities for Starr.

Starr goes on the war path when Michaels father, Sonny is arrested in connection to the shooting which led to the car accident. At the time, Michael is also grieving the loss of his girlfriend, and according to Alderson he is the "only person that could really understand what Starr is going through. Upon birth, baby Starr is kidnapped by her presumed dead father to make her mother after finding her with another man.

When Starr is diagnosed with aplastic anemia Alex Olanov willingly donates her bone marrow to save her life. When Todd returns from being on the run, he and Starr team up and successfully ruin Blairs marriage to Max Holden. Starr becomes a big sister in when her parents adopt a little boy named, Jack who is later revealed to be her biological brother. Blair is now dating Mitchs brother, Walker and Walker reveals that he is actually Todd with plastic surgery.

Later, Todd is sentenced to prison when Blair falsely accuses him of rape; Starr and friend, Matthew find the prison van during transport and try to set Todd free only for Matthew to be kidnapped by Troy McIver.

Though Matthew is rescued, Starr is sentenced to community service at the hospital. Starr is later kidnapped and held for ransom by Laser. She is rescued and returns home; Travis soon follows and Todd reluctantly allows Starr to see him. The teens later use the family newspaper, The Banner to print malicious information about Starrs cousin, and Todds rival, Kevin Buchanan. Starr and Travis would share their first kiss before he must go back to New York with his family.

When Todd disappears, Blair begins dating Dr. Spencer Truman despite Starrs disapproval. Todd is later sentenced to death for the murder of Margaret Cochran and her unborn child. He flatlines after lethal injection only to be revived it is proved that Margaret faked her death. Starr befriends Langston Wilde when she fakes amnesia in order to get her parents back together. They soon start high school where Starr makes enemies with Britney Jennings when football player Cole Thornhart rejects her for Starr.

Britney slips steroids into Coles drink at a party leading to him attacking Starr. Despite disapproval of their parents, Starr and Cole refuse to stop seeing one another. Starr does her best to comfort a grieving Cole when his mother Marty Saybrooke appears to be killed in a car explosion. Todd suddenly wants to move the family to Hawaii prompting Cole and Starr to make love for the first time; they are caught by Todd who beats Cole to near incapacitation. When Starr learns she is pregnant, after contemplating an abortion, the couple runs away together where they plan to raise the baby.

They are found and forced to go back home where Starr ultimately decides let Michael and Marcie adopt the baby, much to the dismay of Todd and Cole. The baby dies shortly after birth. It later revealed that Todd planned to kidnap the child and raise it with an amnesiac Marty, who is alive, and Todd is put on trial.