"She's a remarkable person. She's tough as nails and admirable in so many ways, and it’s been cool to become a friend of hers. And that won't end," Zamprogna said of Monaco

Fellow General Hospital star Wally Kurth, who has played Ned Quartermaine on and off since 1991, told Us Weekly that “you can’t take it personally” when it comes to losing an acting gig.

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.

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.

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

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,