Records from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirm that Charleson's cause of death was "sequelae of blunt head trauma," meaning traumatic brain injury. While the case remains open, the office determined the death to be an accident.

General Hospital” actress, Leslie Ann Charleson, died at the age of 79 last month. Now new reports have confirmed her cause of death. People reports how the actress — who portrayed Monic Quartermaine on the popular series and who was the longest-tenured cast member — was confirmed by records from the Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s department to have died from “sequelae of blunt head trauma.