Eva LaRue Leaving ‘General Hospital’ — Find Out Natalia’s Final Episode Date
Eva LaRue (ex-Maria Santos, All My Children), who joined General Hospital in February 2024 as Natalia Rogers-Ramirez, will wrap up her run on the soap this week.
Her exit storyline kicked into high gear on the June 30 episode, in which she shared emotional scenes with Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos). Natalia broke down in tears with Sonny at his granddaughter’s christening, and he made it clear to Natalia that she wouldn’t be a part of his future. “May you and your whole family get every blessing you deserve,” Natalie bitterly told him before leaving for her hotel.
Working with Benard was something the actress looked forward to as she began her GH journey. “We’ve never worked together before, but we’re acquaintance friends,” she detailed to TV Insider last year. “But it felt so legit, so iconic. When I told all my ‘mom friends’ who are huge General Hospital fans that I had scenes with Sonny, they were like, ‘No way!’ That was really fun. And our scenes together were great.”
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Natalia returned to her hotel room and downed a significant number of pills, then mixed them with alcohol. A series of tense conversations with ex, Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota), her son, Marco Rios (Adrian Anchondo), and Sonny played in her mind as the toxic combination took effect. As she walked unsteadily around her hotel room, packing to leave town, she texted her son, who didn’t respond. Marco was with Lucas Jones (Van Hansis), who said, “Your mom may be drunk, but she’s reaching out and this might be the last chance you have to reach back.” By episode’s end, she was passed out on the couch.
When LaRue joined the soap, she wasn’t sure how long her character would be in town. “They brought me on for the story, and I don’t know anything other than that,” she explained. “I’m recurring right now, but I would love to hang out and recur for as long as they need me or want me. It’s such a great place to work.”
In a statement, Executive Producer Frank Valentini said, “Eva’s been a dear friend for years, and I am so pleased we found an opportunity to work together! What originally was meant as a guest star arc turned into a longer and more satisfying arc, thanks to Eva’s terrific work and chemistry with our cast. I was thrilled Eva was available to us in this extended role. I wish her all the best in her upcoming projects.”
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I've always loved Eva. She was one of my absolute favorites when she was Maria Santos!! I was hoping she'd be on another soap. She's a wonderful actress! She's hardly changed a single bit, in all these years. I hated that they wrote her, as they did, though. I will ALWAYS be a fan!
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She's an amazing actress. She rocked it on csi mini.
It was great ti see her in action again on g.h.
It's really to bad they let her go. G.H. needed that.
Bring her back, take Drew and Sappy Williw off
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Yeah right?
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THANK GOD!! She was wasted on GH and her character was completely useless!!
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I really liked her in AMC. I never watched CSI Miami but I did see her in a few episodes of the George Lopez Show.
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She was great too on CSi Miami.
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Eva's a GREAT actress and I've watched GH every day...for many years‼️The writers have really grabbed my attention lately with exciting storylines. I couldn't quite grasp "her" character, though ....but, then "I" get confused with ALL THE CHILDREN AND WHO BELONGS TO WHOM‼️Hahaha!!😂
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Her character was TERRIBLE
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It was her bad facelift for me, she used to be so bad on CSI
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She reached out for help. Should have introduced her to AA. This could have been a new story line to recovery, as Alexis.
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I enjoyed Eva being on GH and I am sorry that any viewers hated her character because of a believably written character trait: difficulty accepting that your child is gay. I thought Natalia's character was well written and developed, beginning to find the gray area that is normal in life. I found Sonny's initial interest in her believable and his quickly turning his back on her Unbelievable. Just as Natalia was trying to redeem herself in her children's eyes, they decided to have her fall even farther from grace and kill her off ! I found that very disappointing.
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I had high hopes for her character at first but it was made early on that it was a mistake to bring her on a waste
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have not seen her since csi miami
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I maybe crazy but Sonny never told her that he was going to go with her so her getting mad at him is pointless
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Exactly, he never told her that he was going with her. He said that he would make sure that she was taken cared for. Nice house, money etc. She was still in love with Sonny. Nobody can't say that he was going to go with her. She could have made new friends and found herself a man in Belize. Oh well, another one bites the dust!!!. It's sad!!!
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Try staying on topic, thanks.
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How much plastic surgery has she had?
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Well it didn't say why she was leaving! Lol
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Her role was temporary from the start, her role was to create attention to bigotry and hatred of the Gay subject. Most hoq words and how damaging the affects of not accepting and loving your own kids for who they are regardless of lack of understanding or personal differences. The charecter was an out for the daughters role to exit GH. Then the Gay son enters into PORT CHARLES scene and estranged mother still not accepting or was too late but needed. Since this is also was GAY Pride MONTH. Often GH will touch on sensitive subjects thus the GH BALL . But overall her roll was executed well in the end you get to see how from the start of working for Sonny for Desception played out with lies and separating her reputation again as a professional business woman she was stripped as a mother's role and tossed aside, learning how very insecure and vulnerable she really was hiding behind her alcohol issues and apparently on medication or pills for perhaps anxiety and fixation on wanting the fantasy of a new life with The Mob man Sunny of PC to realize yet another man did not want her afyer her first husband also blammed her for the demise of their relationship as result of her not accepting their son. So...her role or character ends up alone and isolated never to see or hear from her kids or ex husband or apparently Sunny just a business arrangement. This was the end for her she took her life or we think this was the final curtain but it maybe a few more twists before she dies?
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Her bad facelift did it for me, she used to be beautiful
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Hallelujah! That was a real waste of money having her on the show.
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