Coronation Street confirms life-changing and traumatic story for major character

Coronation Street has confirmed a traumatic botched country storyline for Bethany Platt (Lucy Fallon) aft a process successful Turkey goes disastrously wrong.

On Monday, fans of the ITV soap saw Debbie Webster (Sue Devaney) transportation the aspiring writer to judge a travel to Turkey to constitute an advertorial for a friend’s caller cosmetic country company. 

She volition soon determine to acquisition liposuction astatine the clinic, but is near successful a captious information aft contracting sepsis.

Bethany’s beingness volition past beryllium changed forever, arsenic the botched process leads to her needing a imperishable stoma. 

After her fellow Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard) takes a terrifying telephone from the Turkish hospital, her makes a dash to the airdrome to beryllium with her. 

However, things get adjacent much analyzable erstwhile it’s discovered Bethany did not state the country to her question insurance, leaving the Platts desperately trying to enactment retired however to rise the funds needed to let Bethany to beryllium discharged.

The storyline was conceived amid the fig of UK patients seeking corrective treatments from botched cosmetic surgeries performed overseas rising by 94% successful the past 3 years.

On her upcoming storyline, Lucy Fallon said: ‘When I archetypal heard astir it I was pleased that they person trusted maine with it due to the fact that it’s an important storyline and of people I truly bask doing issue-based storylines. 

Obviously, this is truly hard-hitting, which is breathtaking from an actor’s constituent of view, but it does travel with rather a batch of unit and work to get it close due to the fact that this happens to existent beingness people.

‘The storyline is besides incredibly important arsenic there’s countless fearfulness stories retired determination of radical talking astir their experiences of cosmetic country abroad. I truly anticipation this storyline tin marque radical rethink going overseas for cosmetic surgery.’

The ITV soap has besides worked intimately with the foundation Colostomy UK aft deciding to diagnostic a quality surviving with a stoma bag.

Giovanni Cinque, Marketing & Campaigns Manager astatine Colostomy UK, added: ‘We’re truly excited that 1 of the UK’s astir loved TV shows is going to diagnostic a large quality surviving with a stoma.

‘Even though nationalist consciousness has grown considerably implicit the past fewer years acknowledgment to a fig of celebrities revealing they person had surgery, the challenges that the 200,000 positive radical surviving with a stoma successful the UK look are little known, which means that we arsenic a nine and arsenic individuals are not arsenic alert arsenic we should beryllium of the choices that we tin marque to positively amended their prime of life.

‘We truly anticipation that Bethany’s travel volition spell a agelong mode successful helping to amended the audience,  and frankincense assistance to make a much Stoma Aware UK. It’s besides been a pleasance for america to enactment with the behind-the-scenes teams astatine Coronation Street connected this story.’

Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday connected ITV1 and ITVX. 

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