General Hospital LEAK: Ric Lansing’s Shocking Deathbed Crisis – Elizabeth Loses Her Love Forever?

General Hospital fans, we have got some new leaked info from our behind-the-scenes source, and the biggest one is about Ric Lansing (Rick Hearst) possibly dying from a terrible disease. Just as everything is going great for him, including a renewed romance with Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst), everything might fall apart because of a medical malady.

We’re going to talk about this leak that says Sonny Corinthos‘s (Maurice Benard) brother finds out soon that he is dying.

Our General Hospital Source Has Been Accurate Before Many Times

All right. So, just if you don’t listen here regularly, this is the same source that revealed Cyrus Renault (Jeff Kober) killed Sam McCall (Kelly Monaco) weeks before the truth came out on the show.

They also confirmed that Liesl Obrecht (Kathleen Gati) had another child that was the fourth kid of Cesar Faison (Anders Hove). Turned out to be true. That’s Cassius Faison (Ryan Paevey).

And that Erika Slezak would be playing Monica Quartermaine‘s (Leslie Charleson) secret sister, Ronnie. So, the leaker also said that they checked this with multiple sources before revealing this Ric Lansing death storyline.

And I will say off the bat, they made clear it’s a deadly illness that he turns up with and says it is likely he will die, but there is a chance Liz’s boyfriend will survive the crisis. So, word is that the powers that be love Rick Hearst. I certainly do. I’m a big Ric Lansing fan. Then again, I always like villains.

Ric’s GH Redemption Is Legit

So, since he’s come back, you know, he did start doing some bad things and getting involved with Ava Jerome (Maura West) was part of that downward spiral and the two of them were blackmailing Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) over Kristina Corinthos (Kate Mansi) trying to kill him and almost killing Ava instead.

But after the kidnapping ordeal, when Ric spent a month in Alexis’s basement tied to a gurney with a ball gag in his mouth, which was precious, that seemed to really change Ric’s outlook on life. And that’s why he is trying really hard and he’s made efforts to make amends with Alexis and also with Sonny.

And of course, it took Alexis and Sonny a minute to believe that Ric was genuine because, let’s face it, he’s been pretty diabolical in the past. But being held captive by Ava, Kristina, and Alexis made Ric realize that if he died, Molly Lansing (Kristen Vaganos) would be the only one to care or to attend his funeral.

And now that I think about it, when he said it, that comment Ric made could have been foreshadowing a little Easter egg because there is a chance there is a funeral in his future.

General Hospital: Ric Wants a Peaceful Life

But at the moment, he’s busy rebuilding his brotherly bond with Sonny, honestly building it for the first time because they’ve never really had one. Plus, he’s getting along fine with Alexis.

And more importantly, Elizabeth finally agreed to give him another chance. So, our leaker also said that Ric’s redemption is legit. He is not pretending. He doesn’t have some secret agenda.

He’s not up to anything nefarious. Ric genuinely wants to be close to Sonny as a brother and to peacefully co-parent with Alexis. And of course, we’ve known since before Ric even came back that he’s really in love with Liz.

He’s never stopped being in love with her. And Ric has always wanted her back. For him, you know, Elizabeth is the one that got away. And in the end, Ric honestly just doesn’t seem to want to be hated anymore.

Ric May Be Dying of a Blood Disease on General Hospital

So, with his life at this great point, you know, where he always wanted it to be, close to Sonny, close to Liz, getting along with Alexis, being a good dad to Molly. Of course, that’s the perfect time for something really soapy and bad to happen to him.

So, our trusty leaker says that Ric is dying. And as always, I want to clarify this is not an official spoiler. It is a leak. So, file it under very interesting rumor. I think these are really fun to talk about. That’s why I shared them.

I’m also going to say I truly hope that they’re wrong and this leak doesn’t pan out because I was so excited when I heard Rick Hearst was coming back to General Hospital and I’ve loved seeing him back as Ric and I would hate to see Elizabeth lose him. So, the source says Ric finds out he is dying of a blood disease.

And I would assume it kicks off in May sweeps which runs from the third week of April to the third week of May. So we are also told that the Ric sick story will play out over the next few months which would probably take it to like July sweeps and reportedly this is why General Hospital writers have both Sonny and Elizabeth getting close to Ric again.

Now, whether he actually does die in the end remains to be seen because he is a fan favorite and Rick Hearst is well liked by the higher-ups at GH. So maybe he survives. The general idea is that it’s like this story line when Mike Corbin (Max Gail) tragically died. So, we’re going to have Sonny getting a lot of screen time during this plot.

How The Story Could Play Out

And I expect it could go something like this. So right now, we see Ric’s life going pretty perfectly. It’s better than he hoped it would be. And Ric’s got everything he ever wanted. For now, Jason Morgan‘s (Steve Burton) out of the picture and thought to not return.

So, Ric has all of Sonny’s attention. And more importantly, Ric has earned Sonny’s trust. They are bonding as brothers at long last. Plus, Ric finally has Liz back in his life. She’s all in. It’s romantic. You know, I expect Ric and Liz to make love soon.

And Ric might even plan to propose to her because you know he’s crazy about her. Looks like he and Liz are on the cusp of getting their happily ever after. And then bam, Ric gets a terminal diagnosis. Since it’s a blood disease, it could be a blood cancer like leukemia or lymphoma.

There’s non-cancerous terminal blood diseases like aplastic anemia, PNH, HLH. I’m guessing it won’t be PCV. That’s the blood illness that Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) has, not only because she has it but also it’s more manageable.

General Hospital fans Don’t Wanna Lose Ric

So, if this leak plays out kind of stinks because we finally have Rick Hearst back after all these years. It was I think eight years since we had him and now this you know leak crops up. So obviously Liz as a nurse would encourage Ric to fight it and pursue all the medical treatments possible.

One thing that has me worried is GH seems to be chemistry testing Liz with Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) throwing them in scenes together. You know, they could be lining up a new love interest for Liz if they do plan to kill off Ric. But as I said, I hope not.

Other Leaked GH Tidbits

Now, we have some other leaked tidbits, by the way. Like, initially, the Jenz Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota) stuff was supposed to wrap in April, but reportedly showrunner Frank Valentini loves Sidwell and pushed the writers to expand his story instead of wrap it up.

The leaker said, “GH is moving away from mob stuff, leaning into more WSB stuff.” I will say I loved the WSB era back in the day with Robert Scorpio (Tristan Rogers) and Holly Sutton (Emma Samms) and Sean Donnelly (John Reilly), all of that. Loved it.

We also heard a while back that Chris McKenna was going to be exited as Jack Brennan (Charles Mesure) and the leaker had shared that with us and now they’ve come back and shared that Finola Hughes taking that long break is what brought Brennan more time.

And then as things dragged on because of Anna’s extended off-screen gap, the showrunners decided to redeem Jack and keep him around. Reportedly, Maurice Benard was really excited to see Sonny get closer to Ric, by the way, back to the other story line.

So, we’ll update you as soon as we get more info on Ric’s rumored illness and death story line. I’m just hoping if he does turn up with a devastating illness that Liz sticks close and gets Ric the best treatment and he gets a medical miracle and survives.