General Hospital: Rocco’s Secret, Troubling Connection to Britt Revealed!

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General Hospital revisits Rocco Falconeri’s (Finn Frances Carr) dark and complicated past — specifically his connection to the woman he once called his “other mother,” Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud). Longtime viewers may recall every twist, while others might remember only pieces. And for newer fans, this backstory is wild enough to completely shock you.

We’re breaking down exactly why Lulu Spencer (Alexa Havins Bruening) has every reason to loathe Britt — and why Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) feels the same. This history also sheds light on the tension you’re seeing now between Emma Scorpio-Drake (Brayden Bruner) and Britt, and why Emma practically wants to choke her every time they cross paths.

Lulu and Dante’s Devastating Journey to Parenthood on General Hospital

The trouble began in 2012. At the time, Lulu and Dante were happily married and ready to start a family. But after months of trying, Lulu received heartbreaking news: she had a medical condition that prevented her from carrying a pregnancy to term. The diagnosis shifted a couple of times, so we won’t get bogged down in medical terminology — the key point is that pregnancy wasn’t possible for her.

The couple turned to adoption, hoping for a fresh start. But everything fell apart when Lulu lied on their paperwork, causing the agency to blacklist them. During this process, Dante also learned several things Lulu had kept from him, including the fact that she’d had an abortion back in high school.

Maxie’s Surrogacy Disaster & the Shocking Baby Switch on GH

Dante and Lulu eventually turned to surrogacy, and at the time, Britt was Lulu’s OBGYN. She oversaw the entire IVF process — collecting Lulu’s eggs, using Dante’s sperm, and creating embryos. Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms) volunteered to be their surrogate, which is absurd medically, considering she once had a heart transplant and wouldn’t qualify in real life.

Still, Britt moved forward and created three embryos. The first was implanted in Maxie, who was supposed to carry Dante and Lulu’s child. After Maxie suffered a fall and miscarried, she later had a one-night stand with Damian Spinelli (Bradford Anderson) and became pregnant. She hid the truth and pretended the baby was Lulu and Dante’s. Not even Spinelli knew. That child was actually Maxie and Spinelli’s daughter, Georgie Jones Spinelli (Lily Fisher). The aftermath turned into a brutal custody war, leaving Spinelli with custody, Lulu heartbroken, and Maxie barred from seeing Georgie.

The Stolen Embryo: Britt’s Biggest Betrayal on General Hospital

The next embryo — the one that became Rocco Falconeri (Finn Frances Carr) — fell into Britt’s hands. At that time, Patrick Drake (Jason Thompson) had dumped her. Britt had always resented his daughter Emma, and yes, she really did burn Emma’s favorite doll on a barbecue grill.

Heartbroken and angry, Britt stole one of Lulu and Dante’s embryos. Liesl Obrecht (Kathleen Gati) performed the secret procedure, implanting the embryo in Britt. Britt then claimed Patrick was the father of her baby. During the pregnancy, she genuinely bonded with the child, but Patrick wanted nothing to do with her and even threatened legal action. Britt roped in her friend Brad Cooper (Parry Shen) to fake paternity. Brad — always messy — was the same person who accidentally exposed the truth about Georgie’s DNA when she was still being called baby Connie.

Britt stuck to the story that Brad was her sperm donor, insisting she’d been desperate to have a child. Her son, Benjamin, was born at Wyndemere after a sudden labor, and Britt continued lying. She even tried to convince Nikolas Cassadine (then Tyler Christopher), who she was dating and planning to marry, that she’d stolen a sperm sample from the hospital — never admitting the embryo theft.

The Truth About Rocco Finally Comes Out

The timeline gets even more tangled. Maxie delivered baby Connie (Georgie) on August 21, 2013, deceiving Lulu and Spinelli. Less than three weeks later, on September 9, 2013, Britt gave birth to Lulu and Dante’s biological son, Rocco — although no one knew it yet.

Months passed before the truth cracked open. When Rocco was around five months old, Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) noticed he had a latex allergy, just like Dante. She’d also spotted other similarities. After Nikolas mentioned Britt had supposedly used a sperm donor, Liz secretly tested the baby’s DNA and confirmed he was Dante’s son — though the embryo theft wasn’t known yet. Dante and Lulu learned part of the truth in February 2014, believing only that their sperm had been stolen.

A Soapy Bombshell at the Engagement Party

Britt and Nikolas were preparing to marry when Britt decided to partially confess. She told Nikolas that Liesl stole a sperm sample, but left out the far bigger truth: that the embryo was Lulu and Dante’s.

Then came the ultimate soap mix-up. Britt wrote a confession letter to Lulu, intending to burn it — but she mixed up the envelopes. Elizabeth discovered the letter and rushed it to Lulu. Lulu confronted Britt at the engagement party, blowing up the entire event. Nikolas was horrified, immediately broke off the engagement, and Britt was arrested for stealing the embryos. Rocco was one of those embryos, the other still in Liesl’s possession.

Legally, Britt escaped punishment because, at the time, embryo theft wasn’t clearly criminalized. Diane Miller managed to get her off the hook.

With Britt facing the fallout, Liesl took care of Ben (Rocco). But when Britt avoided prison, she turned on her mother, reclaimed the baby, and personally handed Rocco over to Dante and Lulu in April 2014. Lulu graciously let Britt say goodbye to the child she had carried and raised for months.

Another Stolen Embryo: The Charlotte Cassadine Bombshell

Later, Dante and Lulu learned that their final remaining embryo was no longer viable. But the story didn’t end there. Around this same time, Lulu was kidnapped by Stavros Cassadine (Robert Kelker-Kelly), who stole one of her eggs. After his death, Helena Cassadine (Constance Towers) fertilized that egg with Valentin Cassadine’s (James Patrick Stuart) sperm. Valentin then stole the embryo, had a surrogate carry it, and the result was Charlotte Cassadine (originally Scarlett Fernandez).

Because of SORAS, Charlotte’s birth year was retroactively set to 2008. Still, both of Lulu’s children — Rocco and Charlotte — ultimately came into the world through surrogates after being conceived under wildly disturbing circumstances.

The Lingering Fallout of Britt’s Cruel Choices

To Britt’s credit, she often asked about Rocco whenever she briefly returned to town, showing she genuinely cared for him. But that doesn’t erase what she did. Lulu’s hatred toward Britt is understandable — she lost irreplaceable time with her son due to Britt’s lies.

So when Rocco refers to Britt as his “other mother,” it’s understandably painful for Lulu. She had almost no control over what happened to her embryos, and only one of the three was ultimately usable. Years later, she finally has both Rocco and Charlotte, but the scars of Britt’s manipulations remain.