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Michelle Stafford (Nina, GH) admits she has shed a few tears when she doesn’t intend to cry in a scene. “I don’t know if it’s because I’m just stressed out all the time, I don’t know if it’s because I have two kids, I don’t know why!” she chuckles of her easy access to the waterworks. “But you have to understand this about me: I’m a projectile crier, I’m a crazy, ugly crier — everything bad about crying is what I am. But I’ll be, like, blocking with Kirsten [Storms, Maxie], and I’ll start crying and Itty Bitty K.S. — that’s what I call her — will be like, ‘Oh, my God, it’s only blocking!’ ” Nathan’s death has given Nina a lot to cry about, even when she doesn’t expect to, Stafford notes. “I like having a scene with, say, Sam, where we’re talking about something else and then she mentions my brother and I start crying. I don’t think there’s anyone on the planet who hasn’t experienced a moment like that. I’m not going, ‘I’m going to cry here,’ but it’s so real and it’s so sad that Nina’s brother is gone that it makes me cry in the scene.”