Fans are devastated over Kelly Monaco’s General Hospital exit, and other soap opera stars have weighed in. “She was there for 20-something years,” Wally Kurth told Us Weekly at the “Day of Days” event in Los Angeles on 2.

Not only did Kelly Monaco’s exit from General Hospital after 21 years shock Us, but it also sent waves throughout the soap opera world. Many members of the Days of Our Lives family were equally surprised to learn that Monaco was leaving the iconic soap.

Amid Kelly Monaco’s dramatic exit from General Hospital, several soap opera stars admitted they were not shocked by her departure from the show, including Cherie Jimenez. “This is a soap opera. I trust that the writers know what they’re doing.

General Hospital fans experienced a tearjerker for the ages last week when Sam McCall unexpectedly died after donating part of her liver to an ailing Lulu Spencer. Kelly Monaco's final scenes as Sam

Kelly Monaco was “amazing” to the very end of her 21-year General Hospital run, says leading man Dominic Zamprogna. Fans of the long-running ABC sudser first met Monaco’s Sam on Oct. 1, 2003, having previously seen Monaco plat Livvie Locke on the GH spinoff Port Charles.

Days of Our Lives star Brandon Beemer isn't certain Kelly Monaco's time on General Hospital has come to an end. "I don't think she's really fully leaving," Beemer, 44, exclusively told Us Weekly at the "Day of Days" fan event at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater on Saturday,