{"id":178007,"date":"2025-07-01T11:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/eva-larue-im-done-with-general-hospital\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:18:49","slug":"eva-larue-im-done-with-general-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/eva-larue-im-done-with-general-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva LaRue: I&#8217;m Done with General Hospital!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got a soap opera shocker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrity gossip<\/a> fans.<\/p>\n<p>Eva LaRue announced late on Monday that she is leaving General Hospital over a year after joining the daytime drama as Natalia Ramirez\u2026 the disapproving and homophobic mother of Jacqueline Grace Lopez\u2019s Blaze. <\/p>\n<p>As the actress herself admitted yesterday, the character wasn\u2019t exactly embraced by viewers during her time on screen.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2215518062-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-529007 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2215518062-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2215518062-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2215518062-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2215518062-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2215518062-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2215518062-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2215518062-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2215518062-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Eva LaRue attends the 32nd annual Race To Erase MS Gala at Fairmont Century Plaza on May 16, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Leon Bennett\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEva\u2019s been a dear friend for years and I am so pleased we found an opportunity to work together,\u201d said General Hospital executive producer Frank Valentini in a <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/general-hospital-star-eva-larue-exiting-as-natalia-ramirez-11764067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement to Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat originally was meant as a guest star arc turned into a longer and more satisfying arc, in thanks to Eva\u2019s terrific work and chemistry with our cast. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was thrilled Eva was available to us in this extended role. I wish her all the best in her upcoming projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-737x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-529008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-737x1024.jpg 737w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-768x1067.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-1474x2048.jpg 1474w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-691x960.jpg 691w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-777x1080.jpg 777w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-864x1200.jpg 864w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-scaled.jpg 1843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-737x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-529008 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-737x1024.jpg 737w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-768x1067.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-1474x2048.jpg 1474w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-691x960.jpg 691w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-777x1080.jpg 777w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-864x1200.jpg 864w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-scaled.jpg 1843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2011837035-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Eva LaRue attends the 2024 LA Art Show Opening Night Party at Los Angeles Convention Center on February 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Amy Sussman\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LaRue basically said the same thing as this executive while confirming her exit in an interview with Soap Opera Digest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started to feel it in January. They tried to rehabilitate my character and then all of a sudden, I have these scenes in January where, because Natalia had lied about her ex-husband and broken his trust, Sonny was like, \u2018We can\u2019t be friends anymore,&#8217;\u201d she told the outlet of about when she started to have a feeling Natalia wasn\u2019t working. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I thought, \u2018Uh-oh, there we go,\u2019 because that [relationship with Sonny] was kind of my character\u2019s only lifeline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The veteran actress made her General Hospital debut in February 2024.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-529009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-529009 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-general-hospital-063025-19439bcf86624f3a99ece2b4369df12c.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption><span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Disney\/Bahareh Ritter)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was originally only supposed to be on the show for a couple of months and it ended up being a much longer run,\u201d said the star, who originally rose to small screen fame as Maria Santos Grey on All My Children.<\/p>\n<p>LaRue added that General Hospital \u201cfelt like home\u201d thanks to the many other All My Children alums in the cast.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it was a challenge to redeem Natalia \u2014 especially when it came to her love story with Sonny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople just weren\u2019t buying it, because they just hated my character so much,\u201d she said on June 30. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so vilified that no matter what [the writers] did, it just wasn\u2019t a solid enough rehabilitation that they were gonna buy me with Sonny. And so when they finally let that idea go, I realized, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m probably not much longer for this world.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actress had nothing negative to say about the crew or colleagues or any of the experience <em>on set<\/em>, it should be emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a blast at General Hospital. I loved being there and I had a lot of really great scenes and I loved everybody that I got to work with,\u201d she said told Soap Opera Digest. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just an awesome experience, and I was really glad that I got to stay longer than I was supposed to.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/07\/eva-larue-im-done-with-general-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 3 minutes We\u2019ve got a soap opera shocker, celebrity gossip fans. Eva LaRue announced late on Monday that she is leaving General Hospital over a year after joining the daytime drama as Natalia Ramirez\u2026 the disapproving and homophobic mother of Jacqueline Grace Lopez\u2019s Blaze. As the actress herself admitted yesterday, the character wasn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-178007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}