Maurice Benard had a special reason for re-airing his podcast episode with the late Johnny Wactor.
When there’s a death in the General Hospital cast and crew, Maurice Benard will typically address the loss on his State of Mind podcast. Nearly a month after Johnny Wactor’s murder, Benard spoke about his late co-star at the start of his recent episode.
Standing outside, Benard spoke directly to the camera when he admitted he didn’t take the decision to re-air Wactor’s episode lightly. “I was debating on whether to put up Johnny Wactor’s State of Mind… repost it… but as I watched it, there’s no way I couldn’t put it up.”
“We had such an incredible conversation,” Benard remembered about the 2021 episode. “He was such an honorable guy.”
Benard noted another reason he decided he needed to repost the episode after watching it back. “This was a long time ago, when I first started State of Mind, and we couldn’t get the lighting right.”
“I said, ‘But the lighting’s so bad.’ He says, ‘Nah, it doesn’t matter. It’s what we said,'” he recalled about Wactor before revealing something truly mystifying. “And as I watched it again, my lighting is not good… he has a light around him… like a halo.”
Benard went on to say he believes it was meant to be for Wactor to be on his show and have that “halo.” The actor previously paid tribute to Wactor in an Instagram post, sharing a still from a GH scene of Sonny and Brando.
This comes after Steve Burton and Bradford Anderson also re-aired a previous podcast episode with Wactor, while several GH stars joined a rally on June 12, 2024 for justice for the actor.
To follow State Of Mind and subscribe, go to YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter.
The week's biggest hits and misses on all four soaps, DAYS, Y&R, GH, and B&B. Read More
Sharon struggles with her guilt over killing Heather, while Nate receives a mysterious message, Victor… Read More
This week on The Bold and the Beautiful, Taylor reveals her diagnosis to Steffy, Ridge… Read More
It's all over for these Salemites. Read More
Days of our Lives has always had iconic teen crews, and they've always had one… Read More
Stonecold and The Jackal are back! Read More
