General Hospital spoilers tease that viewers will need tissues this week as the town mourns the loss of Sam (Kelly Monaco). Kelly was fired from the ABC soap, and they chose to kill her off, leaving a hole in the cast and on the canvas.

You’re gonna need the tissues to watch General Hospital the week of. The preview that ABC just dropped reveals that — well, as you’d expect — all of Port Charles is grief-stricken over the sudden and unexpected passing of Sam McCall.

Days of Our Lives’ star Brandon Beemer told Us Weekly he's not sure that Kelly Monaco is ‘fully’ done with ‘General Hospital’ after a shocking exit

Not only did Kelly Monaco’s exit from General Hospital after 21 years shock Us, but it also sent waves throughout the soap opera world. Many members of the Days of Our Lives family were equally surprised to learn that Monaco was leaving the iconic soap.

As General Hospital star Kelly Monaco bids farewell to the soap after a over twenty year run, actors of Days of Our Lives have shared their disappointed reactions to the news