The soap opera community is thinking of their late co-star after his death last month. Speaking to ET's Deidre Behar on the red carpet of the 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards , stars of various soap operas took a moment to pay tribute to General Hospital alum Johnny Wactor , who died late last month. Wactor died on May 25, after he was shot by an unidentified person during a suspected theft of his catalytic convertor after leaving work at the Level 8 nightclub.
He was 37 years old. It was reported that he stepped in between the gunman and his co-worker to shield her from the shot. "It's just heartbreaking.
It's really, really awful. I miss him, and it's so unfair. My heart goes out to his whole family," Sofia Mattsson, who plays Sasha Gilmore-Corbin, the widow of Wactor's Brando Corbin, tells ET.
"It was so special [to work with him], I will never forget it. He was so caring, so genuine, so kind, so hardworking, and I just loved it. It was so easy -- everybody says we had great chemistry, and it was really from him.
He was easy to love! I will always remember him very fondly." Robert Gossett, nominated for Best Supporting Performance In a Daytime Drama Series this year, tells ET that the GH cast is "hanging in there" in the aftermath of Wactor's death. "We've had a lot of loss," Gossett says, referring to the deaths of producer Nneka Garland , stars Sonya Eddy , Jacklyn Zeman , Billy Miller , Tyler Christopher , and most recently, Meg Bennett and Elizabeth MacRae .
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