‘General Hospital’: Maurice Benard Recalls Final Moment With Tyler Christopher Before His Death

The General Hospital cast is a family unit. Over the years, the long-running soap has lost some of its most beloved stars — Leslie Charleson (Monica Quartermaine), Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio), Jacklyn Zeman (Bobbie Spencer), and Tyler Christopher (Nikolas Cassadine), to name a few. During his candid discussion with costar Genie Francis on his State of Mind podcast, Maurice Benard opened up about his last conversation with Christopher before his untimely death in 2023. Christopher played Nikolas, Francis’ onscreen son, for over a decade. He died at the age of 50 on October 31, 2023, of positional asphyxia due to acute alcohol intoxication. “Tyler, I wasn’t close to him until the last year or two of his life,…