General Hospital said goodbye to a beloved character on Tuesday and fans were reminded of the eventual departure of Kelly Monaco. Marshall Ashford, played by Robert Gossett, had his going away party on today's episode of General Hospital.

Kelly Monaco filmed her last scenes of 'General Hospital' days before celebrating 21 years in the role of Samantha McCall

Sam McCall has been a staple on General Hospital ever since her character arrived in 2003. Kelly Monaco joined the show after the cancellation of Port Charles, the GH spinoff. While she played Livvie Locke on Port Charles, Sam McCall was a new character created for General Hospital.

General Hospital might need to prescribe viewers a sedative. Based on the preview that ABC just dropped for the week of October 21, our blood pressure is going to be skyrocketing. On one end of the canvas,

Back in August, we reported that Kelly Monaco was shockingly fired from General Hospital after playing Samantha (Sam) McCall on the iconic soap opera for 21 years. Now, fans are getting their first look at her final episodes.

After Kelly Monaco was fired from "General Hospital," the Emmy-nominated actor's mother, Carmina, took to Instagram to share her reaction to the news.

It would seem that Sam McCall’s fate is sealed. Kelly Monaco has even finished working at General Hospital. Rumors have started swirling that Cyrus Renault kills her character by injecting digitalis into her IV after she undergoes surgery to donate part of her liver to boyfriend Dante Falconeri’s comatose former wife,