'Ginny & Georgia': Who is Georgia's estranged sister Maddie? These disturbing childhood secrets will shock you
In a particularly spooky Halloween episode of 'Ginny & Georgia', Georgia comes home to find the house eerily silent. She calls out for Austin, searches around the house when she suddenly sees her estranged sister of 10 year pops out saying 'Boo Bitch', incidentally the name of this particular episode. Her sister is Maddie.
Maddie has finally discovered where Georgia lives by following Ginny on social media and connecting the dots. Maddie hasn’t seen Georgia for over a decade and claims she has only come to see her because she misses her and wants her son Caleb to know his cousins.
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Georgia, however, is suspicious of her motives and also grapples with how to introduce Ginny to her sister. Ginny is furious that she wasn’t even aware she had an aunt, cousin or that her grandparents are alive. Georgia had told her she has no family left since her parents died in a boating accident.
We learn then that Maddie is actually Georgia’s half-sister, who she had to leave behind in their dysfunctional home. We see a flashback of Georgia as a teenager trying to provide for both Ginny and Maddie. Georgia finally concedes that she cannot take care of both of them and sends Maddie back to her parents in spite of Maddie’s pleas.
Clearly, Maddie still feels abandoned by Georgia even after all these years. However, after having a few heart-to-heart about their dark and disturbing pasts, the sisters seem to be finally bonding. There's even a choreographed sibling dance routine much like the one we've seen Monica and Ross do on 'Friends'. But after one drunken night Georgia, who never quite lets her guard down, checks Maddie’s phone. Georgia discovers that Maddie is being offered $5,000 by a private investigator, to provide information to the ex-wife of Georgia’s yoga tycoon husband. Meanwhile, Ginny has no idea of her aunt's ulterior motives and asks Maddie about her grandparents.
Maddie, who has no idea that Georgia has gone through her phone, tells Ginny that her grandmother was addicted to Oxy her whole life and that Georgia was the one who had to look after Maddie while growing up. Maddie tells Ginny that Georgia was right to keep Ginny away from her grandparents. Ginny also discovers that Georgia and Maddie don't share the same father.
Maddie and Ginny then go out for an ice cream breakfast with Austin and Caleb and return to find Georgia furious. Georgia confronts Maddie about the message she has seen on her phone and gives her an envelope containing $10,000, double of what the private investigator has offered her. Maddie claims that she never planned to take the money from the private investigator. She was just in a desperate situation financially.
Georgia has stayed away from her all these years is simply because Maddie reminds Georgia too much of her stepfather, Maddie tells her. Maddie then tearfully says that after she left home, Georgia's stepfather, and in this case Maddie's father, began to abuse her as well. Georgia initially tears up when she hears this but soon regains her steely composure and tells Maddie 'Best be going. Traffic.' then storms out taking the envelope with $10,000 in it.
Maddie’s name also comes up briefly later in Season 1 when Jesse the private investigator reaches out to her telling her that Georgia is now engaged to Mayor Paul Randolph.Maddie
He asks Maddie again if there is any information she can share with him about Georgia. Maddie then tells him that when Georgia lived in New Orleans she went by the name of Georgia Warren. Jesse the private investigator runs the information and discovers that Georgia ran an illegal gambling ring in New Orleans and also temporarily lost custody of Ginny for a while.
Yet again, Georgia's past comes to haunt her, a pattern that continues through Season 1 of 'Ginny & Georgia'.