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General Hospital star reveals harrowing 'trauma' after multiple family tragedies and says he's lost everything after LA fires


Cameron Mathison, 55, told the Daily Mail he is going through a new 'forced chapter' of his life after suffering a succession of 'major, major life challenges.'

It came months after his ‘shocking’ divorce from his now-estranged wife Vanessa Arevalo, with whom he has children Lucas, 22, and Lelia, 18, and within four years of losing his mother, his dog, a job and being diagnosed with cancer. It has been an emotionally tough five years for the former Hallmark Channel host who was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma – a type of kidney cancer – in 2019 and underwent surgery to remove a tumor. But Mathison, who has played Drew Cain on General Hospital since 2021, said the ‘trauma’ of losing his house hit differently because you ‘never expect’ to witness a family home burn down.

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