AND was Billy Abbott in Fever of love and Jason Morgan and Drew Cain in General Hospital: LActor Billy Miller has died in Texas at just 43 years old. His manager, who confirmed to Variety the news of his passing, admitted in a note that the actor «he was fighting one manic depression». It’s about a bipolar disorder that causes those affected to have difficulty maintaining relationships and to manage even the simplest social activities of daily life due to constant fluctuations in behavior and mood.
Goodbye to Billy Miller
In a message published on X from her son’s manager, Billy MIller’s mother thanked everyone who was close to the actor «for the large number of messages of love, prayers and condolences that they sent to me and my family after the devastating loss of my beautiful son BJ – Billy Miller.”
The battle against depression
The woman then explained that her son «He fought a long and difficult battle against bipolar depression for years. He did everything he could to control the disease. But in the end he prevailed, and he gave up. All the other news that has circulated about the causes of death are not true. I wish they were, but they’re not.”
The career of Billy Miller
Born in Grand Prairie, Texas, on September 17, 1979, Miller suffered from tarsal coalition as a child, a disease that causes the bones of the foot to fuse abnormally, resulting in flat feet. After working as a model, Miller was cast in 2007 as Richie Novak on the soap The valley of pines, then moving on to Fever of love. Here his performance as Billy Abbott earned him three Daytime Emmys, two of them for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
In 2014 Billy Miller is therefore joined the cast of General Hospital thenplaying two characters until 2019. Then he starred in NCIS, The Rookie, Truth Be Told, Major Crimes, CSI, Castle and Enormousalso appearing in American Sniper and in Urban Cowboy.
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