Eva LaRue has nothing but gratitude for her experience on General Hospital — from beginning to end.
“To be honest, the way I went out, while surprising, was actually like an actor’s greatest gift because they gave me these scenes to leave by that were so juicy and delicious,” LaRue, 58, shared with Soap Opera Digest in an interview published Tuesday, July 1. “If they had just had me go off into the sunset and get on a plane and join Blaze, it would have kind of all been for naught. … It would have been a boring exit!”
On the Monday, June 30, episode of General Hospital, LaRue’s character, Natalia Ramirez, overdosed on a mixture of pills and booze. On Tuesday’s episode, she was declared dead.
“I’ve never been killed before,” LaRue explained of her character’s untimely death. “This is my first time to die!”
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While the actress previously thought her character was going to go off and meet up with her rock star daughter Blaze, she said the writers chose a more juicy route.
What came next was a storyline that left LaRue feeling “really grateful.”
“Natalia just goes into a full-on life spiral — a full-on, huge, juicy arc of a life spiral over the course of a couple of days,” she said. “As an actor, I was just like, ‘Oh, my God, these are delicious!’ In your lifetime, whether you’re doing daytime or nighttime [TV], rarely as an actor do you get those kinds of scenes.”
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Before joining General Hospital, LaRue experienced some epic storylines when she played Maria Santos on All My Children.
While her run on General Hospital was originally supposed to last a couple of months, it kept getting extended — ultimately lasting over a year.
“It’s been really fun, and all my friends are there from All My Children,” LaRue exclusively told Us Weekly in May at Nancy Davis’ Race to Erase MS Gala. “I love every second of it. I love [executive producer] Frank Valentini at the helm. It’s just been fun to be part of such an iconic show.”
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Although it’s always sad to leave a soap opera or positive gig in the industry, LaRue will forever look fondly on her final scenes.
“It was heavy, and I was so nervous days before because I thought, ‘I really want to do this justice,’” she told Soap Opera Digest. “I was really happy that they gave me those departing scenes. That was awesome.”
General Hospital airs weekdays on ABC. Stream old episodes anytime on Hulu.
