General Hospital star Laura Wright (Carly Spencer) is known for her strength on screen — and she’s proving just as resilient off-screen, too. In a recent exclusive with Soap Opera Digest, Wright revealed she’s recovering from a painful knee injury that occurred while playing one of her favorite sports: pickleball.
Laura Wright On The Mend After Painful Knee Injury
She stated, “I was playing pickleball — well, singles, and not with Wes [Ramsey, ex-Peter, her real-life partner],” she explained. “I went to run up and I did some weird movement with a backhand. But I crossed my leg over, and my knee popped out of joint, and back in — it didn’t stay out, it just popped out and back in real quick. Nothing was swollen; it was kind of fine. I mean, not fine — it was sore.”
Wright initially tried to stay off her feet, icing the injury and wearing a brace. “It doesn’t hurt at all. I even went to the big tennis tournament, the Indian Wells tennis tournament, and I was up and down stairs at the stadium, walking all over the grounds for four days,” the actress added.
But when Wright returned to work, the knee gave out again. “I had all these scenes in Carly’s kitchen with Maurice [Benard, Sonny],” she said. “I went to get up and move, just stand up and walk, and my knee popped out again! Literally, it was some side motion with how I turned my foot and went to step up. I went down and I was like, ‘Oh my God!’ It hurt so bad.”
Despite the pain, Wright powered through, filming those scenes from a kitchen stool. “There were three episodes I had to shoot like that,” she noted.
As for the future, Wright is staying positive and realistic. “I will be wearing a brace and playing doubles only! I will not be playing singles anymore! ”
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