John Stamos chronicles his unimaginable rise to fame in his memoir If You Would Have Told Me. The now 60-year-old actor dives into his days as Blackie Parrish on General Hospital, which jumpstarted his appearing profession. In his memoir, John remembers a second on the set of the hit cleaning soap opera the place he screamed at the Elizabeth Taylor.
While filming a scene, John writes that he seen somebody “putzing around in the distance. I try to ignore it and go on, but the person is making a racket trying to set up what looks like a director’s chair. I hear a popping sound. What the hell?”
John can’t let go of the distraction and voices his frustration in entrance of everybody. “For the first time, I really lose it on set and yell out, ‘Will someone get that old woman out of my eyeline!’ That old woman is Elizabeth Taylor. There she is, in all her lavender-eyed glory, poised in a director’s chair, sipping champagne,” the actor reveals.
Turns out, Elizabeth determined to go to the set of the cleaning soap to see Anthony Geary, who performed Luke Spencer. Elizabeth had beforehand appeared on the present as the long-lasting Helena Cassidine.
“Chris [Robinson] quickly tells me who she is, and I’m so embarrassed,” John continues in his memoir. “I can’t believe I lost my sh*t in front of Elizabeth Taylor. My dad is going to kill me. I mute my tantrum, apologize profusely, make some excuse about calling her old, then slither back to the set and continue the scene. This time, I cry my eyes out.”
During his run on GH from 1982 to 1984, John earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Just just a few years later, John would nab the life-changing function of Jesse Katsopolis on Full House and meet a few of his lifelong mates, together with Lori Loughlin, Dave Coulier, and the late Bob Saget. If You Would Have Told Me is obtainable now.
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