John J. York, who has performed Mac Scorpio on General Hospital for greater than 30 years, took to social media at this time to clarify why he has been on hiatus from the daytime drama.
“So last December, of ’22, I was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, and multiple smoldering myeloma, two blood and bone marrow disorders,” he mentioned in a virtually two-minute video posted on X/Twitter (watch it under). “Over the past many months, I’ve had three bone marrow biopses, many chemo treatments — I have another one coming in a couple of weeks — and I’m closing in on a blood stem-cell transplant.”
York additionally spoke on to viewers about their probably turning into a bone marrow donor for him or “thousands of others.” He directed of us to bethematch.org/matchformac.
York went on so as to add: “I just want to say thanks for all the support over the years. This isn’t goodbye, this is just so long. I’ll have to take a break for at least three, maybe four months. But I’ll be back. Someone once said that, ‘I’ll be back.’” He used an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice for that final line.
York has performed Malcolm “Mac” Scorpio — the Australian estranged brother of Robert Scorpio, husband of Felicia Scorpio-Jones and the stepfather of Georgie and Maxie Jones — on General Hospital for greater than 930 episodes since 1991. He additionally performed the character in about 5 dozens episodes of the spinoff cleaning soap Port Charles from 1997-2001, a 2001 episode of All My Children and on General Hospital: Night Shift in 2007.
His different credit embrace the lead on Werewolf, which was a part of Fox’s authentic lineup in 1987-88. He additionally has executed visitor spots on such sequence as My Wife and Kids, Even Stevens, Clueless, 21 Jump Street, Family Ties and Hotel.
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