John Stamos Called Elizabeth Taylor an ‘Old Lady’ in an Outburst During Her General Hospital Set Visit

John Stamos looks back on his diva moment on set General Hospital.

During an appearance on SiriusXM The Jess Cagle Showthe Full house The alum, 60, recalled how he became frustrated when Elizabeth Taylor visited the set of the ABC soap.

“She was on the show and she was friends with Tony Geary,” he said of Taylor. “I had this, it was one of those scenes where my mother was dying on the show for the first time and I’d never experienced that and I was trying to say, ‘My mother is dead. My mother is dead,’ in my head, and my head was like, ‘No, she’s not. She teaches CCD down in Orange County.'”

John Stamos and Elizabeth Taylor.

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Stamos, who played Blackie Parrish General Hospital from 1982 to 1984, then called out the Hollywood legend, who died in March 2011, for being in his eye during filming.

“I heard that rustling, and it was, I couldn’t go through the scene,” he recalled. “I was screwing it up. I couldn’t get to that emotional place and I heard a rustle and I heard a bang like this and then I said, ‘Get that old lady out of my eye line,’ and the old lady was Elizabeth Taylor.”

He added that the late actress “threw a bottle of champagne at the director’s chair and she said she wanted to see him with Blackie.”

Janine Turner and John Stamos in ‘General Hospital’.

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In his new memoir If you had told meStamos said he only learned Taylor’s identity from his co-star Chris Robinson after the incident.

“Can’t believe I lost s— to Elizabeth Taylor,” Stamos wrote, according to TooFab. “My dad is going to kill me.”

He continued: “I quiet my outburst, apologize profusely, find some excuse for calling her old, then go back to the set and continue with the scene. This time I’m crying my eyes out.”

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