‘General Hospital’ Star Mired in Off-Screen Guardianship Drama

INDIANAPOLIS – Tyler Christopher, a daytime soap actor once married to actress Eva Longoria, fell in his bathroom as he withdrew from alcohol. Christopher had fallen before. But this time, at home in Indiana, he hit his head on the back of the bathtub, fracturing his skull and causing bleeding on the brain.

Rushed to the hospital that day in November 2019, he underwent life-saving craniotomy surgery, with doctors drilling holes in his head to relieve pain and pressure.

While Christopher was recovering, his sister filed a petition in 2020 to put him under guardianship. And that, the veteran ' ...