“General Hospital” declares 'Racism has no place in Port Charles' after star Tabyana Ali attacked online

Ali has played Trina Robinson on the ABC soap since 2022.

The Port Charles community is thick as thieves (and murderers, adulterers, etc). After one of their own, Tabyana Ali, was attacked by racist online trolls, General Hospital released a simple statement in support of her — and several of Ali's costars came to her defense her as well.

“General Hospital does not tolerate hatred or bigotry of any kind,” read the statement posted on the soap's Instagram. “Racism has no place in Port Charles.”

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Ali addressed the hatred and bigotry directed at her by online trolls in a social media statement of her own, choosing to avoid the negativity visited upon her by strangers.

"To anyone that hates me. That's absolutely fine. I don't know you and you don't me but regardless I'm sending you peace, safety, and prosperity," Ali wrote on X on June 9. "I also pray you touch some grass, see the sun, eat a delicious meal, and find something to do. Peace and love."

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In a series of follow-up tweets, Ali continued, "And Im sorry that this is the away you feel like you have to be seen. I'm sorry that life isn't happening how you want. But if you found something you loved to do other than hurting people. You would never have the energy to say what you've been saying to people ONLINE!"

"We cannot be feeding in to peoples hate. We cannot be giving it back. We cannot stoop to rude/racist people's level. It doesn't help. We are fighting too many wars as it is," Ali wrote, adding, "But we got to find another way to fight. I've realized ignoring doesn't help but neither does giving the energy back. We're going in circles and that doesn't get us anywhere. Everybody might not agree with me but thats okay. I just want to let 'those' people know, I see you."

Nancy Lee Grahn, who has played Alexis Davis on the soap since 1996, was among Ali's costars to speak up in her defense, writing on X, "You hide behind a profile pix & spew hatred & racism at Tabyana, you spew it at every cast member of General Hospital & we condemn & reject it. We stand by our friend & colleague in her dignified & gracious response. There's no place 4 racism of any kind in r beloved GH community."

Ali has played Trina Robinson since 2022, a role originated by Tiana Le in 2017 and taken over by Sydney Mikayla in 2019. Robinson proved popular as Trina, especially her romance with Spencer Cassadine, portrayed by Nicholas Alexander Chavez. The "soap power couple," affectionately known as Sprina, has drawn comparisons to the iconic Luke and Laura, and landed them a profile in PEOPLE.

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"Anywhere you go, you say 'General Hospital' and people say 'Luke and Laura.' Generations of people still think and talk about Luke and Laura," Ali told the publication last year. "For it to be Nick and I, where people are telling us, 'I'm watching the show because of you.' Or that, 'I left the show but now I’ve come back [because of you],' I’m like, 'What … what?' It’s a lot, it's a lot. But I’m grateful. I'm very thankful."

Chavez, however, left the soap on a temporary hiatus to film a Ryan Murphy project and won't be returning.

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