Coronation Street star explains character’s unexpected absence from Paul’s death episode

Coronation Street star Gareth Pierce explained wherefore his quality Todd Grimshaw wasn’t contiguous for Paul Foreman’s heartbreaking episode.

The genuinely tragic scenes which aired earlier this week (Monday September 9) brought an end to this section of Paul’s (Peter Ash) centrifugal neurone illness journey, aft his diagnosis astir 18 months ago.

We’ve seen his information steadily turn worse during that time, archetypal losing his mobility, and aboriginal struggling to speak.

In caller weeks, he’s had to trust connected a ventilator when struggling to breathe. During Friday’s episode, helium made brother Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) committedness not to archer their mum Bernie Winter (Jane Hazlegrove) astir a peculiar wellness episode, for fears she would halt Billy from enjoying a much-needed night retired with the lads.

Speaking to Digital Spy on the reddish carpet at the National Television Awards, histrion Gareth explained wherefore Todd was absent during Paul’s last moments.

‘In the astir caller occurrence wherever Paul died, Todd wasn’t there. Initially I was similar “I’m not definite astir that”,’ helium said.

‘But arsenic acold arsenic Todd and Paul are concerned, they said their goodbye in the peculiar episode a period oregon truthful ago.’

He added: ‘It mightiness person undercut that somewhat if we’d had a repetition of that moment, truthful really I deliberation it was the close way. For each intents and purposes successful that infinitesimal a portion back, Todd thought that helium was saying goodbye to his mate.’

During the 18 months that the communicative played out, we saw his condition steadily turn worse – archetypal losing his mobility, and aboriginal struggling to speak.

Monday’s occurrence saw Paul’s hubby Billy (Daniel Brocklebank) had nary thought that his beloved had already slipped away.

As Billy stopped for breath, helium picked up the telephone and asked to talk with his partner. Bernie (Jane Hazlegrove), reasoning she was doing the close thing, told him that Paul was inactive live and listening.

On what the adjacent fewer weeks clasp for the household post-death, Pete antecedently said: ‘Billy and Bernie are evidently rather antithetic successful their attack to beingness and subsequently truthful decease arsenic well.’

‘They’re some grieving for idiosyncratic that they love, but some of them deliberation they’ve got dibs connected grief stakes, 1 arsenic a mum and 1 arsenic a husband.

‘Billy’s precise traditional. The funeral’s coming up – Billy wants hymns, Bernie wants popular songs, Billy wants a hearse, Bernie wants thing else. There is struggle implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.’

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