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GH’s Maurice Benard Weighs-In on Sonny Unknowingly Not Getting His Proper Meds, “I Will Say This, I Haven’t Had This Much Fun Acting in a Long time !!!”

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General Hospital’s Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) is being duped in a most heinous of ways. The mobster, who suffers from bipolar disorder, takes his medication to help control and stabilize his mental health.

However, on Friday’s March 29th episode of General Hospital, viewers learned that Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) has been in  cahoots with a pharmacist to doctor Sonny’s medication where he is getting a much smaller dose and the rest is filled with placebo.

Now, Sonny is beginning to act more paranoid and suspicious, and is beginning to act out in ways he might not usually display. It was in full force in key scenes between the mobster and Jason (Steve Burton) and Carly (Laura Wright). Fans of the show were quick to take to social media after the reveal.

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Many voiced their concerns for Benard, who suffers himself from bipolar disorder and in the past has had to play out these tough storyline beats for his soap opera alter-ego.

When Sal Anthony Corrente tweeted, “Not happy to see that @japastu and @MauraWest are working against @MauriceBenard. I look forward to Sonny’s recovery and vengeance in what ever manner he deems fitting,” Maurice responded back.

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The three-time Daytime Emmy-winning star shared on Sonny’s current plight: “There’s a lot of talk about what’s going on on the show. Some talk about mental health. We have to remember it’s a TV show. It can’t always be perfect. But I will say this, I haven’t had this much fun acting in a long time !!!”

Maurice is a fierce advocate for mental health and has become popular as a host with his series State of Mind, as well, that sheds light on people’s emotional struggles and more.

So, are you looking forward to seeing Sonny struggling as he is unknowingly being given the wrong does of medication? Or are you upset that GH is going there? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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So, Ava is working with Valentin? And, Valentin burnt down Anna’s house, instead of Charlotte? What does Valentin have on Ava, to get her to gaslight Sonny? Many questions!

You sound like all three of your questions are true and maybe they are except although Valentin is the worst, I’m not sure he would or could burn down Anna’s home. He was supposed to love her and that would be inhuman, the worst.

I thought Charlotte had already been cleared of setting the fire. I thought Brennan was saying he was the one responsible for burning Anna’s house down.

I don’t remember this -confession- of Brennan but it seems plausible, since he’s in cahoots with Valentin, now I’m wondering if he did burn Anna’s house down, did Valentin know at the time who did it and if he did, he’s even worse than I thought he was.

Brennan was talking in circles, so it may not have been a confession. I just interpreted it that way. If so, I would also love to know how much Valentin knew.

I personally do not like a storyline that messes with mental health medication or any medications. Any more than I do baby switch storylines. Remember, It is all fiction.

With all due respect, your concluding sentence contradicts your first sentence. It’s almost as if you are reassuring yourself.

I don’t see why anyone would want to see someone or enjoy watching someone struggle even if it is a character on a show.

What surprises me the most is Maurice Benard going along with this scenario, thinking it’s fun? Especially he, himself struggling with mental health and tries to help people on his show State Of Mind, boy talk about contradictory.

Mo probably is having fun because the other times Sonny went off his meds – it was a conscious decision on his part. He now gets to play something not knowing what’s causing it.

I don’t think Ava is in cahoots with Valentin. However, when the medication switch is eventually discovered, she’ll be the most likely subject based on her past with Morgan.

Don’t think anyone enjoys that, I don’t

The only chemistry this guy has is with Becky . She could sit there and read the phone book and you would be memorized . This is why I don’t watch rhe show because abusing one of my favorite actresses in this industry is more then I could take. I feel the same way about Case in Y&R so I dropped that just don’t get it . I guess as George Carlin use to say it’s a club and you ain’t in it

I found it bothersome that GH was using bipolar plot twist and use it to drive story w/ Maurice but if the actor himself is ok with it then I’m relieved, I just hope they don’t prolong this. As for Valentine, also not liking him turning full villain, hope there’s a twist here too, I liked Valentine w/ Anna, but there’s such a thing as going too far. And Ava, what is up with her? she’s creeping me out how she’s drooling for Sonny, how sad, she’s throwing away her friendship w/ Nina, whose also going off the wheels, damn, how sad,

The show has needed a smart villain since Victor died. Valentin is a logical choice and gets back to the character’s inception. (Helena warned how evil he could be. He shot both Nikolas and Kevin). We’ll also circle back to why he had Nora make sure Olivia Jerome was sent away for good.

His turn further to the dark side is a good sign that we’ll see Lulu awake from her coma sometime later in 2024.

Can you imagine the lengths he’ll go to,to keep Lulu away from his precious Charlotte. That girl is bad news, ever since she was a little kid.

Charlotte is more invisible than bad. Hasn’t it been a few months since we last saw her?

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GENERAL HOSPITAL Preview: Carly and Lulu Make Plans to Rescue Their Children; Anna Looks Determined to Secure Her Freedom

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This week on all-new episodes of General Hospital, the race is on! Can Lulu (Alexa Havins) and Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) get to Rocco (Finn Carr) and Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) in time to ensure their safety from Cullum (Andrew Hawkes)? Can Carly (Laura Wright) with the help of her brother, Lucas (Van Hansis) rescue Josslyn (Eden McCoy) from captivity at Wyndemere? These questions may be answered, plus the return of the one and only Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) are on tap!

In the just released General Hospital spoilers video for the week of June 22-26, Lulu tells her mother, Laura (Genie Francis), “Dante and I have to get to Rocco before Cullum!” Meanwhile, Rocco (Finn Carr) looks angered and emotional as Britt walks through their cabin hideout. Does Rocco know his parents are on the way to find them, or has Cullum already tracked them down to the British Virgin Islands?

Back in Port Charles, Carly is informing Lucas that his niece, “is a WSB agent.” She knows Josslyn (Eden McCoy) is being held against her will at Wyndemere, and she has to find a way to get her out. Lucas agrees with Carly’s plan of, “We go in and we don’t leave without Josslyn!” Elsewhere, Josslyn is looking worried for her future as she is stuck in captivity thanks to Cassius, Cullum and Sidwell!

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FINOLA HUGHES RETURNS

The final moments of the teaser promo reveal Anna in a psychiatric clinic in France. We have not seen her for months after Cullum, Sidwell and Pascal fed her hallucinogenics to make her believe her arch nemesis, Cesar Faison was alive!

Now, the doctors walk towards her hospital bed, where we see the super spy calmly knitting. Is Anna back to normal and playing everyone to get out of her predicament, or does she still remain deeply traumatized … or both?

Take a look at the rest of the official GH spoilers for the week below.

MONDAY, JUNE 22
Willow gets an unwelcome surprise. Trina sticks to her guns. “Nathan” wants reassurance. Ethan advises Ava. Brook Lynn receives an update.

TUESDAY, JUNE 23
Dante cautions Liz. Laura learns a secret. Brook Lynn confides in Michael. Sonny challenges Ava. Chase makes a decision.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
Anna meets with her doctor. Carly makes a stunning confession. Britt extracts a promise. Cullum pulls a fast one. Gio and Emma hit the pool.

THURSDAY, JUNE 25
Josslyn clashes with Cassius. Lulu and Dante make a discovery. Chase receives a warning. Jordan seeks help. Alexis is summoned to the PCPD.

FRIDAY, JUNE 26
Anna takes a huge risk. Britt is in grave danger. Willow is in disbelief. Danny must act fast. Curtis jumps to the wrong conclusion.

Check out the latest General Hospital promo entitled, “Rescue Mission” below.

Now weigh-in: Do you think Anna is still mentally off-balance, or OK, and just pretending to be troubled to get out of France and get back to Port Charles? Will Josslyn finally be rescued, or will Carly and Lucas find themselves locked up with her? And, who will get to Britt and Rocco first? Cullum, or Dante and Lulu? Share your thoughts and theories via the comment section below.

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Maurice Benard Gives High Praise to ‘General Hospital’ Writers; Teases Upcoming Sonny Scenes with Anna, Jason, Justine and Ric

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With the highly-anticipated returns of Finola Hughes (Anna Devane) on this week’s June 24 episode of General Hospital, Steve Burton’s (Jason Morgan) upcoming return on July 13, which also serves as the ABC daytime drama’s 16,000 episode, things are about to fire on all cylinders in the story, as noted today by series star, Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos).

On Father’s Day, the three-time Daytime Emmy-winning actor and mental health activist took to his Instagram and expressed in a video that he has some unbelievable upcoming senes with the aforementioned Burton and Hughes. Add to that Nazneen Contractor (Justine Turner) and Rick Hearst (Ric Lansing), where Benard gave credit where credit is due to the GH writing team, which is led by co-head writers, Elizabeth Korte and Chris Van Etten..

In this video, Benard said, “I just want to get on here and say that I did some work with Steve Burton, Finola Hughes, Rick Hearst, Nazneen Contractor, and they’re all just fantastic. Truly fantastic. But, I want to say the writing was just exceptional. It truly was. It was exceptional. So, thankful for that kind of writing. I know writers don’t get the credit a lot, but I just want to say to the General Hospital writing team, keep rolling!”

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So now the question becomes, with a major tease like that, what is about to go down between Sonny, Anna, Jason, Justine and Ric? Will we finally get to the end of the line for Sidwell (Carlo Rota), as previously teased by the GH co-head writers? Will we learn what happened to Jason and Anna, fully? Will Justine and Sonny becomes closer or stop their liaisons? And what of Ric? Will he be true blue to his brother or double-cross him? There is a lot at stake as we move further into the summer and one that looks like it could be one of the more exciting ones in years!

FINOLA HUGHES CONFIRMED AMAZING SCENES WITH MAURICE BENARD

As a punctuation point to his video, Benard also shared this written message in the post: “I just did some wonderful scenes with Steve Burton, Rick Hearst, Finola Hughes and Nazneen Contractor and  and unbelievable writing, freaking amazing scenes that you will see in the near future on General Hospital.” In fact, Finola Hughes jumped in the post comment thread and responded, “I loved our scenes so much xxx”

Fans will most likely see all the scenes Benard referred to later in July, since GH tapes approximately six weeks ahead of air.

So, are you excited to see what Maurice is talking about? Are you hyped for what’s to come on GH? Any clue on what you think will go down between the main characters on the soap with the returns of Anna Devane and Jason Morgan to the mix? Weigh-in via the comment section below.

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‘General Hospital’ Alum Chad Duell Announces Upcoming Release of His First Single, ‘If You Need Me’

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In a surprise move, Daytime Emmy winner, Chad Duell (ex-Michael Corinthos, GH) is getting ready to unveil a new chapter of his career in music.

The former GH star, where he played the son of Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and Carly Spencer (Laura Wright) for 15 years, has announced his new single, “If You Need Me” will drop on Friday, June 26. The single is now available for pre-order on Spotify and major music streaming platforms and is distributed by DistroKid.

Taking to his Instagram story over the weekend, to announce the pre-save of his new single, Chad expressed, “I’ll make a full post about what I’ve been up to and my music once it goes live next week, but you can pre-save my first single so it goes straight to your Spotify once it drops next week.”

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SINCE LEAVING GENERAL HOSPITAL

Previously, since his departure from the ABC soap opera. Chad starred alongside Zach Mendez in the world premiere of of Yum Yum at Annapolis, a new play written by Bruce Reisman. Duell last appeared on General Hospital on the January 21, 2025 episode.

The part was recast with Rory Gibson who debuted as the new Michael in May of 2025 during the Nurses’ Ball episodes and who has remained in the role since that time.

In an interview earlier this year on The Able Show, Duell said on his decision to exit the soap opera, “I was blessed to be part of that (show) for as long as I have, but what happens sometimes is if you’re doing the same thing, especially in a creative field for such a long time, you can get a little burnt out in a way. It can make you a little depressed, so that’s kind of what happened. On top of that, I had other things going on in my life at the time. My father passed away recently and I just needed a reset. So, I stepped away. A lot of times you have to go through some stuff to really step into that next level. I needed to kind of feel uncomfortable.”

So, what type of musical genre will Chad’s new song be? Country? Pop? Rock? Dance/Club? Something else? Let us know your thoughts via the comment section below, and if you are eager to hear the new single next week via the comment section below.

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