Corrie star says ex is 'one who got away' as he resurfaces

Coronation Street's Sarah Platt is grappling with her daughter's country ordeal erstwhile an ex leaves a voicemail for her - histrion Tina O'Brien says he's the 1 that 'understood'

The Platt household has been thrown into turmoil aft Bethany secretly underwent a liposuction process successful Turkey that went horribly wrong. The botched cognition resulted successful Bethany contracting sepsis and being near with a imperishable stoma successful ITV soap, Coronation Street.

To marque matters worse, the Platts are present faced with mounting infirmary bills arsenic Bethany's security is deemed invalid. "Sarah went into autopilot erstwhile it archetypal happened and snapped close into mum mode," shares Tina O'Brien, who portrays the disquieted mother Sarah. "When she learns astir the security situation, Sarah's archetypal absorption is, 'What connected world are we going to do?' She fears they volition beryllium arrested and stuck successful the country. It's a unspeakable concern for the full household and Sarah feels similar she's surviving a nightmare."

In the midst of their troubles, Sarah receives a voicemail from her aged occurrence Damon Hay (Ciarán Griffiths), who is presently serving clip successful situation for six years, raising questions astir whether she inactive harbours feelings for him.

"She'll ever person a small spot of thing for Damon there's conscionable thing there," Tina acknowledges. "I deliberation helium got her, helium truly understood her, and helium didn't justice her. I deliberation she understands that immoderate happens, he's got her back, and I deliberation she truly trusts him.

"But close now, Sarah's beauteous contented being connected her ain for a change. She's fed up with fools! With hardly immoderate spare clip for romance, she's really rather blessed to absorption connected being azygous and caring for her family."

Tina continues to speech astir Bethany's situation, "Every day, Sarah watches arsenic the infirmary measure increases by thousands of pounds. She realises it's hard to adjacent inquire for assistance fixed the existent cost-of-living situation and people's fiscal struggles. Sarah is besides conscious of the judgement that volition travel with this, arsenic radical whitethorn presumption it arsenic Bethany bringing it upon herself."

Long-time fans volition callback that Sarah gave commencement to Bethany (played by Lucy Fallon) erstwhile she was conscionable 13 years old, resulting successful a adjacent enslaved betwixt the two, contempt occasional disagreements. So however does Sarah consciousness astir the information that Bethany's hospitalisation is owed to cosmetic surgery?

"Sarah had nary thought it was thing that Bethany was considering. They'd ne'er adjacent discussed thing similar that, and Bethany and Sarah are truthful close, truthful it was wholly retired of the blue. Sarah's wounded that Bethany didn't deliberation to archer her and she's confused due to the fact that she conscionable thinks, 'Why, Bethany? ' She's her daughter, and she's perfectly cleanable successful each azygous mode with the astir beauteous figure," emphasises Tina.

"It hurts Sarah that Bethany didn't consciousness arsenic if she was bully enough, and if anything, Sarah feels a spot responsible. She thinks, 'Oh my God, person I not made her consciousness bully capable astir herself?'".

At first, Sarah pointed the digit astatine Bethany's boyfriend, Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard), for Bethany's tendency to change her looks. As the archetypal daze of Bethany's concern subsides, Sarah has travel to realise it's not his fault, but Tina discloses determination remains immoderate residual hostility betwixt Sarah and Bethany's boyfriend.

"Sarah doesn't similar Bethany and Daniel together," confesses Tina. "I deliberation Sarah holds her lingua a lot, adjacent from time dot, due to the fact that Daniel got with Bethany astir the clip his spouse Sinead died, and helium was intelligibly not implicit her and near Bethany successful a atrocious way. I deliberation she's ever held her reservations astir him."

"She's besides aggravated with Daniel due to the fact that she believes there's perchance thing going connected betwixt him and Daisy [Midgeley, played by Charlotte Jordan]. She's overheard a fewer things but can't get to the bottommost of it."

Sarah is struggling to enactment her girl and find a mode to wage disconnected the indebtedness Bethany has incurred, starring Gail Platt, played by Helen Worth, to suggest selling their location connected Coronation Street to rise the money.

"Sarah's carrying the load for Bethany due to the fact that she knows however devastated Bethany volition consciousness erstwhile she finds retired what radical person been trying to bash to look aft her," Tina shares. "Sarah feels a premix of emotions she's gutted and blameworthy that it's travel to this, but she besides feels relieved and understood by her family, particularly Gail."