‘General Hospital’ Star Maurice Benard Reveals He Contemplated Suicide During Pandemic
deadline.comThree-time Daytime Emmy winner Maurice Benard, who has been open about his lifetime battle with bipolar disorder, revealed that he contemplated suicide during the pandemic.
In a candid interview with People, the actor who plays mobster Sonny Corinthos on General Hospital said he thought about ending his life “every day” during the lockdown.
His ABC sudser had gone dark for four months and his tour for his book Nothing General About It: How Love (and Lithium) Saved Me On and Off General Hospital was put on hold. “I felt a real cold rush in me,” he told the magazine. “And then that night I was shaking like a fish out of water and crying like a baby.
This had never happened in my life. [His wife] Paula’s on the bed and I’m like, ‘Baby, I’m done. What’s going on with me?’ In a calm voice, she says, ‘Honey, you’re fine.
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