‘General Hospital’ supports star after attack by racist trolls

The community of Port Charles is a bunch of murderers, adulterers, etc. After one of them, Tabyana Ali, was attacked by racist online trolls, General Hospital released a short statement in support – and several of Ali’s co-stars also came to her defense.

“General Hospital “The show does not tolerate hate or bigotry of any kind,” said the statement posted on the soap’s Instagram. “Racism has no place in Port Charles.”

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Ali addressed the hate and bigotry she received from online trolls in a social media statement of her own, and decided to avoid the negativity directed at her by strangers.

“To all those who hate me. That’s absolutely fine. I don’t know you and you don’t know me, but I still send you peace, safety and prosperity.” Ali wrote on June 9th on X. “I also pray that you touch some grass, see the sun, enjoy a delicious meal and find something to do. Peace and love.”

In a series of follow-up tweets Ali continued“And I’m sorry you feel like you need to be seen that way. I’m sorry life isn’t going the way you want it to. But if you found something you loved doing instead of hurting people, you’d never have the energy to tell people what you said ONLINE!”

“We cannot fuel people’s hatred. We cannot return it. We cannot stoop to the level of rude/racist people. That doesn’t help. We are already fighting too many wars.” Ali wrote, Add“But we have to find another way to fight. I’ve realized that ignoring it doesn’t help, but neither does giving back the energy. We’re going around in circles and that doesn’t get us anywhere. Not everyone agrees with me, but that’s okay. I just want to tell ‘those’ people that I see you.”

Nancy Lee Grahn, who has played Alexis Davis on the soap since 1996, was one of Ali’s co-stars who stood up for her, writing on X: “You hide behind a profile picture and spew hate and racism at Tabyana, you spit it at every cast member of general HospitalI and we condemn and reject it. We stand by our friend and colleague in her dignified and gracious response. There is no place for racism of any kind in our beloved GH community.”

Ali has played Trina Robinson since 2022, a role originated by Tiana Le in 2017 and taken over by Sydney Mikayla in 2019. Robinson proved popular as Trina, especially her romance with Spencer Cassadine, portrayed by Nicholas Alexander Chavez. The “soap power couple”, affectionately known as Sprina, have been compared to the iconic Luke and Laura, giving them a profile in PEOPLE.

“Wherever you go, you say:General Hospital‘ and people say ‘Luke and Laura.’ Generations of people still think and talk about Luke and Laura,” Ali told the publication last year. “For Nick and I to be like that, where people tell us, ‘I watch the show because of you.’ Or, ‘I left the show but came back now (because of you),’ I’m like, ‘What… what?’ It’s a lot, it’s a lot. But I’m grateful. I’m very grateful.”

However, Chavez has temporarily paused the soap opera to film a Ryan Murphy project and will not return.