General Hospital delivered a shocker in the June 30 episode, where Natalia Ramirez overdosed on a mixture of pills and booze, leading to her death. This was made official in the July 1, 2025, episode.
Star Eva LaRue did not expect Natalia to go out this way, but she did not seem to complain when she sat down for an interview about the character’s exit.
Eva LaRue thought Natalia would ‘meet up with Blaze’ instead of dying in General Hospital
Eva LaRue recently sat down with Soap Opera Digest to talk about her character’s exit from General Hospital. Her character got an interesting exit in the form of a fatal overdose.
LaRue however expected a different outcome for Natalia. “I thought Natalia was going to go off and meet up with [her rock star daughter] Blaze, wherever she was out in the world, because my character kept saying, ‘I want to make up with Blaze. I’ve got to talk to her because she needs me. I’m gonna join her on tour,'” the actress said about her exit. But this never happened.
However, it seems that LaRue was not particularly disappointed with the way Natalia went out either. She elaborated on this, “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. 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!”
She further emphasized that whatever happened to Natalia was “great.”
“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. And that, I was really grateful for. 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,” the actress added.
So it seems Eva LaRue has no regrets about her streak as Natalia or her ceremonious exit from General Hospital.