Lynn Herring Joins AS THE WORLD TURNS

AS THE WORLD TURNS has hired former GENERAL HOSPITAL star Lynn Herring to play Audrey, the gold-digging mother of Henry Coleman (Trent Dawson). She debuts on July 24. In a new interview with TV Guide Magazine's Michael Logan, Herring talks about the new role.

One day I’m on the ranch giving shots to my horses with cow poop on my boots and the next I’m on the set at ATWT all dressed up with makeup and heels. I haven’t worn heels in five years! I couldn’t sleep the whole first week I was in New York because I’m so used to the silence of the ranch. But you know what’s funny? I’m staying in a sublet on Central Park South right across from where they park the horse carriages—so the smell of manure is still in the air!

The way I figure, Audrey was a teenage mom. The backstory is that she ditched all the kids and Henry had to take care of them, so he has a lot of anger issues with her. They agree to not discuss dear old dad… I think he was abusive.

Chris Goutman said the main story is six-to-eight weeks long and then we’ll see what happens after that. If it ends there, I will love it and be appreciative. If it goes on, I can’t lose.

They’re bringing in Michael Woods as someone attached to Audrey, a guy named Jay who wants money from her.

Woods has played a major role on AS THE WORLD TURNS already, as Alec Wallace. Margo went to jail for murdering him in late 1999, but it turned out Georgia was the culprit. The original plan was for Emily to be the killer, but that was rewritten.

Read the entire interview here.