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Wright: "It Was The Worst Week Ever!"

CBS Soaps In Depth
November 29, 2005

Laura Wright (ex-Cassie, Guiding Light) is settling into her new role of General Hospital's Carly. But one of the big hurdles she face in getting there was saying good-bye to the soap she'd called home for eight years.

The In Depth Story:
Wright's last day of work of GL in late September was lost in a sea of tears. "The whole week was the worst week of my life," she confesses with a laugh. "I'd sit in my dressing room and just bawl. I felt like I had aged 10 years."

Wright shares that the pain of leaving GL - combined with the fact that days later she had to move her family across the country - had been weighing on her all week. "I had no brain," she smiles. "I didn't get anything accomplished. I felt like a complete loser of a mother, a wife and a packer& My wonderful au pair packed half the house! I was miserable. It was the worst week ever."

When her final day arrived, Wright was feted with a GL tradition: a champagne toast on set. Executive producer Ellen Wheeler was an expected no-show because of a big meeting with parent company Procter & Gamble but managed to make it in time to surprise the exiting star. "All of a sudden, out of nowhere, she comes running down the floor," Wright recounts. "I mean, she still had her jacket on. I just lost it when I saw her because I really adore her."

Wright adds that after presenting her with flowers, Wheeler addressed the crowd. "She said, 'We're so mad at her for leaving us, but we wish her so much luck,'" recalls the actress, who was also given a beautiful necklace from Tiffany & Co. as a farewell gift. "Everyone gets the blue Tiffany box!"

The actress, whose final episode aired last week, says that the good-bye with GL was "bittersweet. It was like leaving the nest. It was eight years. I had kids while I was there. I grew up there. I told them as I was leaving that the person who started eight years ago was not the same person that walked out. And it's someone I like a lot better. And it was because of all those people that I changed. Every single person I worked with affected me in a positive way."

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