Birthplace: Jamaica
Family: Two brothers, one in Richmond VA, and one in Columbia, SC
Would Like to Travel to: Australia
Superhero Skill of Choice: To leap tall buildings in a single bound
Favorite Junk Food: Chinese prunes; "They're actually sugared plums that are dried with licorice and sugar.  I grew up on those things
How She Knew Jenna Would Get Involved With Roger: "I did a photo shoot with Michael Zaslow [Roger] where I had sheets wrapped around me and a black corset on and I was tying up his legs."

Fiona Hutchison left the high profile role of Gabrielle on ONE LIFE TO LIVE amid a flurry of controversy in 1990 [Correction: it was 1991].  But her soap woes career woes couldn't compare to her high stakes real-life drama.

    While the press focused on Hutchison's abrupt departure from OLTL and her refusal to accept ABC's new policy of a 5% cap on raises, her personal life was in turmoil.  For starters, her marriage was breaking up. Currently in the midst of divorce proceedings, Hutchison is unable to go into details but will confirm that many of the rumors circulating about her abusive marriage are fact.

    "These things happen", she says.  "People do change.  I think when alcohol is involved, anything can happen.  And it did.  I wish I could tell you more.  I would love to tell the whole world so they could get out of the same situation."

    While Hutchison was in the process of doing just that, her mother died under heinous circumstances in England.  "It was quite a shock," Hutchison shares.  "She died four days before she was supposed to come over.  She got the flu and was admitted to the hospital with a chest infection.  And, unfortunately, the intern on duty prescribed a sedative, and she died 30 minutes later.  If it were this country, there would be a huge lawsuit.  But in England, you're dealing with the government.  You may win, but what you win is that you're right and they're wrong.  What we're doing is more effective-- pointing out that the hospital and the specialist in charge had a lack of control.  We have been proven right, but it doesn't change anything, does it?  Perhaps not, but Hutchison's experiences have certainly changed her.  And that she says, can be a good thing. "When I fractured my spine after my father died, I really thought I had hit bottom, that I could never go further down.  But having this situation come about -- an uncertain time leaving ABC, the mayhem with my marriage and my mother going -- you realize that there isn't just one time. There are probably going to be three or four times when the bottom falls out of everything you've got going.  I look at them as the most exciting times of your life because it is very frightening and very worrying, but the one thing for sure is that it gives you an opportunity to change just about everything.  And change can be very healthy.

    No doubt one of the best changes in Hutchison's life over the past year has been the evolution of her relationship with John Viscardi (ex-Tony, OLTL).  Though Hutchison shied away from the dating scene when her marriage first hit the skids, Viscardi was a valued friend.  "It's important to have the time alone when you come out of a relationship before going into another," Hutchison says.  "John is a friend, an absolute friend, first foremost, and always.  I have complete respect for him and feel nothing but respect back from him, and trust.  He's very happy and positive.  This has all been such a drag for him to go through, and he was very patient.  We were just friends for a very long time, and that's the way it should be."

    Viscardi was a profesional partner when the duo produced an L.A. play called Bad Girls about two soap villianesses who get fired and have to live together.  Hutchison played one role and good friend Andrea Evan's ex-Tina, OLTL) played the other.  She and Viscardi also founded We Can Be, a theatrical foundation for Exceptional Children.  And when it was time to return to daytime, he was by her side, too.

    Viscardi accompanied Hutchison back to New York when GL Executive Producer Jill Farren Phelps coaxed her into accepting the three month role of Jenna - no easy task.  "I guess when you say no three times and they come back yet again, you're stupid not to take it," says Hutchison. "I wasn't interested in staying longer unless there was a reason to, and there were three:  Michael Zaslow [Roger], time off and the actual deal itself."

    Part of the deal stipulates that Hutchison has enough time to complete certain projects that she has in the works, as well as continue her work with We Can Be. Theater, such as the short lived play Terrible Beauty, which she did with Tatum O'Neal, is also an option.

    "I'm a very different person on GL than I was on OLTL," Hutchison observes.  "It's a different atmosphere.  I'm more focused on outside things, and the less time I spend in my dressing room, the better.  On ABC, I lived in my dressing room, I perhaps lived the role.  I don't know if it was because the demands were massively intense.  Maybe it was because I had emotional scenes most of the time. You can't help but become depressed when you're crying every single day.  So now, no offense to GUIDING LIGHT, my dressing room is a place to hang my hat, and the less time I spend in my dressing room, the happier I am.  Jenna, leaves me feeling very energized, alive, positive and happy."

    These days, Hutchison takes responsibility for much of her own happiness.  "When you go through a situation like I did, you realize that [life] doesn't have to happen a particular way," she notes. "For example], you do not have to work for someone that treats you badly.  I always open my  mouth now, and I don't really care.  You're not going to be liked by everyone.  I found that out; so I spend less time worrying about that than I used to.  I remember first starting out on OLTL and somebody telling me that so-and-so didn't like me, and I got terribly upset about that.  Now I don't care, and I seem to have more friends."

    In the final analysis, despite her hardships, Hutchison says she considers herself very, very lucky, primarily because of her ability to bounce back from adversity.  Her regret?   That her mother can't see her now.  "Very recently, I took a nap at the studio in between scenes and actually hd a dream about my mother. She wanted to let me know that things were going to be all right for me.  She was all for me getting away from my husband, so when that happens, I hope she knows.  If I could tell her something right now, I'd like to tell her that I'm getting there, and nd it will all come about."

    Fans come in all shapes and sizes, as Fiona Hutchison well knows.  How does she deal with them?  Hutchison just lets them believe what they want to believe -- but for completely different reasons.

    "I was in New Hampshire a while ago, and a little boy came up to me and said 'There's Gabrielle, who's now Jenna Bradshaw'.  And I thought, "this little guy is only seven or eight, and he knows [I'm a real person].  we work very hard at this.'  He said, "What are you doing here?  "Well, I'm saying hello to you.'  'But you're supposed to be inside the TV.  What are you doing outside the TV?  Don't you want to live there anymore?'  I said, "" I only live inside the TV for a short time.'  And I thought, "God his mother's going to kill me for confirming the fact that he thinks that I live inside the TV!.'"

    And then there's the flip side.  "I was on the subway going down to a play, and there were these two guys.  One was saying, 'Hey man, that's Gabrielle."  And the other was saying, 'No that ain't Gabrielle, ma.  Gabrielle was hot!  That girl ain't hot.'  Because I had no makeup on, and I looked really bad in my sweatpants and hat over my head.  And I thought, 'Should I go over there and say "Well yes, as a matter of fact....,: But then I thought, "Don't spoil this guy's image of me.  At least I'm hot somewhere.'"