Laura Wright had to yell at Cameron Mathison on ‘General Hospital’ after he lost his home

Cameron Mathison is taking it all in stride.

The General Hospital star lost his home and all his personal belongings in the Eaton Fire, which was recently contained after ravaging over 14,000 acres of the Altadena area in northern Los Angeles. But the demands of daily soap stardom meant he was back in Port Charles the very next day. “I had to yell at Cameron,” costar Laura Wright recalled on Wednesday’s episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show.

“I had to go up to Cameron, and I’m like, ‘Can I please hug you? ‘Cause I’m getting ready to start yelling in your face,'” she said.

Mathison laughed, recalling, “She came up and apologized first. My character has got reason to be yelled at at the moment! And Laura was very sweet. She’s like, ‘I’m so sorry but I’ve got to lay into you today after you just lost your house and everything you own.'”

“And you were like, ‘Please do. I think I need a distraction!'” Wright shot back.

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Mathison, who has played the character Drew Quartermaine (also known as Drew Cain) on the CBS soap for four years, revealed the devastating loss on a Jan. 9 segment of Good Morning America.

“I’ve been up all night. I can’t sleep. I’ve lost my home and everything that I own,” he shared. “It’s important to focus on the things that we have and can be grateful for. There’s a lot of that, but at the same time, unless you’ve gone through it, it’s hard to get your head out of that. You’re just stuck thinking and reeling.”

Mathison has shared updates on his family’s experience picking up the pieces after the shocking tragedy on his Instagram, writing in a recent post, “Our home was not just walls and things. It was the physical representation of the deep love we have for our children.”

“I gotta say I’ve gotten so much love and support from my GH family, from all of you,” he said on The Jennifer Hudson Show. “It’s one of the most unimaginably overwhelming logistical and emotional traumas that you can imagine. It’s just so unnerving, but at the same time, we’re all gonna get through it step by step, day by day, put the pieces back together. L.A. strong.”

Mathison’s costars praised the actor’s resilience in the wake of the experience. Donnell Turner remarked that “the way Cameron has handled this, he comes to work every day, you wouldn’t know. A consummate professional, a good guy, it just makes you want to help out.”

Finola Hughes concurred, saying, “The grace with which he’s handling it is quite something.”