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Eva LaRue Reflects Back on Her Run as ‘General Hospital’s’ Homophobic Natalia Rogers-Ramirez (Exclusive)
The harrowing real-life story of soap vet Eva LaRue (ex-Maria, AMC, ex-Celeste, Y&R and ex-Natalia, GH) and her daughter, Kaya McKenna Callahan is currently streaming on Paramount+ in the two-part documentary, My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story.
It details the 12-years of terror the mother/daughter experienced through letters and threats from an unknown faceless stalker, who went by the name of “Freddy Krueger” until the case was solved with innovative DNA and forensic genealogy and technology.
LaRue was the very special guest on the Monday, December 1st livestream on You Tube’s Michael Fairman Channel, where she not only discussed opening up and telling never-before-known inside details of her stalker experience, and how it has affected her and daughter for life, but she also spoke on her most controversial and most recent soap role of Natalia Rogers-Ramirez on General Hospital.
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In a run that started back in February of 2024, Eva was introduced on the ABC daytime drama series as the disapproving and homophobic mother to her daughter, Blaze (Jacqueline Grace Lopez), who at that time was in a relationship with Kristina Corinthos-Davis (Kate Mansi). As the months went on, LaRue’s Natalia Rogers-Ramirez ended up with no redeeming qualities, especially after we later learned she also had a gay son, Marco Rios (Adrian Anchondo) with her ex-husband, Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota)!
However, by the end of June of 2025, it was bye, bye, Natalia where after a flatlined potential romance with Sonny (Maurice Benard), and him sending her packing out of the country, she overdoses on pills and booze and dies. Thus, ending the run to one of GH’s most unpopular characters.
Eva opened up about how much she knew of Natalia’s backstory when taking on the role and when she first learned that her character was homophobic and bigoted. “I had no idea when I took the role, to be honest,” shared LaRue. “I will never forget that day when I got that script. I will never forget begging on set, ‘Please don’t make me say it as written. I cannot even say these words.” Every part of my body is like I’m being stabbed to death, having to say these horrifying, hateful words. I did not know going in that my character was going to be such a horrible homophobe and that they double and tripled down on it.”
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The actress who was so beloved as Dr. Maria Santos on All My Children and as CSI: Miami’s Natalia Boa Vista, knew the viewers were not happy with GH’s Natalia. “Everybody hated my character. It was tough, because I was coming from playing Maria Santos, who was a pretty beloved character, and then went to The Young and the Restless, and even though my character was a pain, a Latina busy body mom, I don’t think she was vilified, but this character on GH was vilified,” remarked LaRue. “This was the first time that there was just no redeeming moral compass (for a character I’ve played). She was just morally and ethically bankrupt.”
Looking back several months later, LaRue took stock of how the character of Natalia just tanked with the fans. “I was only supposed to be there (at GH) for three months, but I think what happened was we had a changeover in writers. When the new writers came on and I think they thought, “Since we have her, maybe we can redeem her. We’ll keep her on a little longer. There is some chemistry with her and Maurice Benard (Sonny), so let’s see what we can do with that.” But, they never saved the character. I think maybe they were leaning into that Sonny’s not a good guy necessarily and Natalia is not a good girl necessarily. Maybe it’s a perfect fit, but then when that didn’t work, and the audience was definitely not for us being together, then they cut bait. It was time to go.”
However, LaRue loved working with her GH TV family and especially had high praise when Adrian Anchondo as Marco came upon his dead mother in the hospital. “Oh, I loved working with Adrian. He was awesome. He really was. He was so good and Jacqueline Grace Lopez, she was a little angel. She was such a sweetheart. I loved my kids on the show, and I loved working with Natalia’s ex-husband, Carlo Rota. His character was horrible and fantastic. Carlo is such a great guy to work opposite, and at one point I thought, “If I’m going to be a ‘bad guy’ anyway, have me hook up with my ex-husband and be like this horrible duo!”
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Eva remembered the moment she found out it was curtain for Natalia, who from all accounts as of now, took an accidental overdose of booze and pills which ultimately ended her life. “I knew it was going to be winding down. I could see it for a few months leading up to it. I said, ‘Just give me a little warning.’ But, I actually ended up opening a script and seeing it. However, they wrote some really great, juicy, tender and delicious final scenes for me. So, I was very happy about that an actress, and very thankful for the material.”
Since exiting GH, and over the last few months, LaRue has been extremely busy promoting her riveting two-part documentary in which she was also one of its executive producers. During the livestream, Eva teased that she will be continuing to work behind the scenes as well as in front of the camera, “I’m creating a scripted version of ‘My Nightmare Stalker’ that I am co-executive producing. So, it’s a nice new chapter, a new way of being creative. And of course, I don’t want to give up the acting, because I love that.”
Check out the Michael Fairman Channels enlightening full livestream chat with Eva LaRue below.
Now let us know, do you feel there would have been anyway for GH to come back from making Natalia homophobic, given the things she said, the kind of mother she was to her children, and then her ultimate drug and booze induced downfall? Would you like to see Eva back on the soaps, perhaps on Beyond the Gates, Days of our Lives or The Bold and the Beautiful in a new role? Share your thoughts via the comment section below.
I love seeing Eva LaRue on my television screen. She belongs on daytime. I always thought her (all too brief) turn on Y&R would save the Rosales family story but alas, that was not meant to be. I would welcome her back as another character in a heartbeat.
I love Eva and would like to see her in another soap or TV series. She is talented, pretty and seems very nice.
I was not one of those fans that hated the character, and actually thought she was redeemable but I guess I’m in the minority there. I actually hope she does come back to. GH maybe as Maria, I was a AMC fan but if we keep waiting for amc to be revived then we are all gonna be waiting forever, plus ABC owns the rights to the show/character, just bring her on, Maria is a Doctor after all.
Let’s get some GH legacy characters storylines before we bring over characters from defunct soaps.
Yeah. Not sure why Eva La Rue is getting so much publicity. She’s an okay actress but not good enough to rise above the bad writing afforded to Natalia.
I had no problem with Natalia. I couldn’t understand all the hate especially as she softened toward the end. She represents a viewpoint of many in the audience I’m sure.
Just how did she soften? She didn’t really accept her son. Judging by public acceptance of marriage equality, I would use caution saying “many” in the audience.
GH writers should turn Natalie into a verb. Definition: making a character so one-dimensional and unlikable that the viewers are rooting for their death. (characters, not actors). Used in a sentence: We’ve Natalied Drew Cain.
General Hospital
‘General Hospital’s’ Tabyana Ali on a Potential Kai/Trina/Gio/Emma Quadrangle, ‘I Don’t Think That’s Impossible, But That Would Be Messy’
On recent episodes of General Hospital, music executive Simon Craft (Grady Eldridge) has been pushing and demanding that Trina (Tabyana Ali) and Gio (Giovanni Mazza) play up a faux relationship when they are onstage, or in front of the camera, to add to their allure as new recording artists to his label.
Simon knows full well that Gio is dating Emma (Braedyn Bruner), and Trina is with Kai (Jens Austin Astrup). It was apparent from the start, that Kai seemed a bit more comfortable with the “arrangement” understanding this was for business, and not pleasure, while Emma initially didn’t like the idea.
Now with Trina’s stalker story in full gear, and as fans eventually find out who is completely obsessed with the budding young singer, while initially seeming to be Simon that would seem to be too easy of a choice. But is GH toying with the idea that somehow Gio and Trina get stuck in a situation and one thing leads to another and they develop feelings one another, too?
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SIMON’S MANUEVERS
In addition, after Curtis (Donnell Turner) and Sidwell’s (Carlo Rota) beatdown at Pentonville, where everyone is accusing Sonny (Maurice Benard) of ordering the deed, will this find Gio and Trina on the same side, believing it’s Sonny, or will Gio end up sticking by his grandfather when by week’s end he was also questioning if he was telling the truth?
During a new conversation on the Michael Fairman Channel, Tabyana Ali shared her thoughts that if Gio and Trina were pushed closer together, what that would mean for their relationships with Emma and Kai, respectively.
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MUSICAL CHAIRS?
Pondering the soap staple, Tabyana exclaimed, “Oh, my goodness. Who knows? I mean, quite honestly, I don’t think it’s it’s impossible, but, oh, wow! That would be messy!” Ali added that its something that could be quite intriguing to play. “There’s a part of me that wants it to happen just to see, how does it play out? Right? Then, there’s another part of me that’s like, “You can’t do that to Emma and Kai.” That’s so wrong,” believed Ali.
However, Tabyana did admit a complicated love story wasn’t far from her mind. “Originally, I wanted something like a quadrangle. I really wanted that to happen. And if this is a moment where it could happen, I think that would be fun too.”
When asked to tease what’s coming up for Trina in the next several weeks, she offered up three words. Things for her will “(get) Suspicious, (be ) spontaneous, (and) very dangerous.”
So, do you think the GH writing team is teeing up a situation where Trina and Gio become more than friends and musical artists together? Would you be down for it, or be against it? do you like Emma with Gio and Kai with Trina? Share your thoughts via the comment section, nd in case you missed it, check our chat with Tabyana below.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Sonny Tells Dante, “I Don’t Want a Son Like You,” While Michael Tells Brook Lynn to Bide Her Time Till Chase and Willow Have an Affair
On the Thursday, October 1 episode of General Hospital, both Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson) had some things to say and what they had to say didn’t go over well with whom they were talking to!
Sonny had a confrontation with his son, Dante (Dominic Zamprogna), while Michael leveled with Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) over Chase (Josh Swickard).
GH is setting up a scenario where everyone is going to make it look like Sonny was responsible for having Sidwell (Carlo Rota) beat up in Pentonville; while viewers already know Ava (Maura West) and Drew (Cameron Mathison) were behind it.
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A VISIT WITH DAD
Now, Dante comes to Sonny’s house. He wants to know straight up from his dad if he ordered the attack at Pentonville. Sonny flatly denies any culpability or responsibility, but Dante refuses to believe him.
Dante informs Sonny he has video footage of Sully and Vito at the prison. Sonny explains to Dante he doesn’t know why Sully beat up both Curtis and Dante. Things escalated when Sonny was deeply hurt that Dante refused to believe him. Dante says he was disappointed that his father didn’t respect him enough to be truthful with him!
Sonny asks Dante to consider that he was being set up. He says all he did was to tell Vito to instruct Sully to keep a watchful eye on Sidwell, not to harm him. No matter what Sonny said, Dante continued hammering him with how he knew deep down, even though he said he left the mob, he had to finish off Sidwell for himself.
Next, Sonny explains everything he has ever done was to provide for and to protect his family. Dante fired back that he doesn’t want to deal anymore with Sonny’s half-baked truths. As the two men argue, Gio (Giovanni Mazza) shows up at Sonny’s front door and overhears Sonny losing his temper and shouting at Dante, “Get out of my house! I don’t want a son like you!” The scenes featured an excellent performance by Maurice Benard.
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MICHAEL THE MANIPULATOR
While this is going down, outside the Quartermaine boathouse, Brook Lynn opens up to Michael about living at the Q’s with Chase being there, since he only came back due to legal advice from his lawyer, Monet Mitchell (Blythe Howard).
Brook Lynn questioned whether they should get legally separate. Michael insisted that would be a big mistake. When she asks why, Michael tells Brook Lynn to bide her time until Chase and Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) have an affair; then she’d have full custody of Phoebe.
An angered Brook Lynn pushed Michael into the water and accuses him of moving Willow back into the gatehouse with intent on putting Chase and Willow in closer proximity and sacrificing Brook Lynn’s family in the process. As the two cousins bicker, Chase shows up asking Brook Lynn if she is OK. Michael punctuates their talk with “You know, I’m right.”
CURTIS FIGURES OUT A WAY TO GET OUT OF THE SLAMMER
At GH, Willow visits Curtis (Donnell Turner) in his hospital room. Curtis wants Willow to get him pardoned and keep him out of jail, and in return, he will help her nail Sonny.
Next, Willow tells Dr. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) she wants Curtis held for observation for three more days. He agrees to do so under one condition, that she understands that he may need to call in a favor from a congresswoman.
So, what did you think of how Dante accused his father and refused to believe Sonny’s answers? Is this the end of their father and son relationship for good? Is Michael the most manipulative person of all, except for Willow? Do the two deserve each other? Do you want Chase and Willow to have an affair? And what of Curtis? Does he have many redeeming qualities left? Share your thoughts via the comment section, but first check out the talk Michael had with Brook Lynn.
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GH Alum Tajh Bellow and Y&R Alum Loren Lott Star in New Tiktok and Microdrama ‘Love Island’ Spoof
Two soap opera alums very familiar to fans of General Hospital and The Young and the Restless are paired together in a new short-form digital series from none other than Issa Rae’s production entity HOORAE Digital.
Look for Tajh Bellow (ex-TJ Ashford, GH)) and Loren Lott (ex-Ana Hamilton, Y&R) as part of the cast of The Compatibility Experiment, premiering on October 14, 2026, exclusively on TikTok and its companion microdrama platform, PineDrama.
In the video teaser, it appears that Bellow and Lott play a couple, Kelvin and Camila, set in a Love Island reality show-esque environment trying to win the one million dollar cash prize, only what could go wrong?
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The Compatibility Experiment loglines share that it brings a fast-paced, relationship-focused reality check—much like Love Island with a twist. The show takes a participant’s current relationship, introduces them to a potentially more compatible partner, and forces them to navigate the differences with life-changing money on the line.
The new series is part of a groundbreaking content deal between HOORAE Digital and TikTok to develop premium short-form storytelling. The ensemble cast also features; Ayona, Reggie Luck, JaNa Craig, Tosin Morohunfola, Jessica Jacoby, Georgia Warner, and Nick Cassidy.
General Hospital fans know Tajh Bellow for his performances as TJ Ashford, and who earned two Daytime Emmy nominations along the way during his run. Bellow took over the role in 2018 and last appeared on the ABC daytime drama series in December of 2024.
Loren Lott first appeared as Devon’s (Bryton James) sister Ana Hamilton on The Young and the Restless from 2018 to 2019; making a brief return in 2024. She has continued to perform on the stage and screen with recent credits including: Bel-Air, Cherish the Day, and All American: Homecoming.
Check out the trailer for The Compatibility Experiment below and let us know what you think of its concept and if you are glad to see Tajh and Loren again? Hoping they might return to daytime in their GH and Y&R roles at some point in the future? Weigh-in via the comment section.
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