Steve Burton didn’t leave General Hospital with a gunshot, a body bag, or a tearful goodbye at the docks. He left with something almost more disruptive in soap-land: a calm, real-life decision.
On his podcast with Bradford Anderson, Burton framed the hiatus from playing Jason Morgan as a perspective reset—“life is more important than anything else”—and he didn’t say it like a PR line.
Then he connected that perspective to a jarring recent loss: the death of James Van Der Beek, which Burton said hit home because all anyone wants in the end is “five more minutes” with the people they love.
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