EastEnders confirms unexpected and very disturbing Cindy twist – and there is no coming back 

This nonfiction contains spoilers for Thursday’s occurrence of EastEnders, which is already disposable to watercourse on BBC iPlayer.

Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) has added substance to Lauren Branning’s (Jacqueline Jossa) problems – and supplied her with drugs.

The ordeal kicked disconnected earlier successful the week, erstwhile Cindy snuck disconnected amid George and Elaine Knight’s (Colin Salmon and Harriet Thorpe) wedding enactment to conscionable up with her erstwhile step-son Junior (Micah Balfour), who she has been having an matter with implicit the past year.

The brace shared a kiss, unaware that Junior’s uncle Kojo Asare (Dayo Koleosho) was watching on.

She chased aft him, though pursuing a scuffle helium fell from the apical of an exigency exit staircase and has been successful an induced coma ever since.

The archetypal idiosyncratic to find him was Lauren, who instantly questioned wherefore Cindy was progressive successful the altercation and didn’t judge her mendacious alibi.

Meanwhile, Lauren had stolen immoderate of relative Amy Mitchell’s (Ellie Dadd) medicine to ease her pain from injuries sustained during the Peggy’s nine crush.

After erstwhile issues with addiction, and fixed she’s presently pregnant, this could person devastating consequences.

It wasn’t agelong earlier the vessel of liquid morphine fell retired of Lauren’s bag, and Cindy utilized this arsenic an accidental to marque them equal.

Later successful the evening, Lauren assured Cindy that she would get to the bottommost of wherefore she was behaving suspiciously with Kojo, adjacent if it meant putting her ain estimation and narration with Peter Beale (Thomas Law) astatine risk.

In today’s instalment, Kojo was taken successful for country arsenic doctors advised helium needed an intracranial bolt to relieve unit connected his brain.

Cindy was fearful that erstwhile helium woke up, helium would uncover all. Lauren assured her that nary substance however hard she tried, the information would prevail. She besides noted that she was nary longer going to supply a screen story.

Elsewhere, Peter was disquieted that Lauren was slipping with her parenting responsibilities for their young lad Louie, and opened his bosom to half-sister Anna Knight (Molly Rainford).

Anna compared her behaviour to that of Linda Carter (Kellie Bright), who has besides suffered with alcoholism successful the past twelvemonth – and Peter was fixed nutrient for thought.

He asked Lauren outright if she’d deed the vessel again, leaving her mortified. She rushed extracurricular and binned the medication, telling Cindy that she was going acold turkey moving forward.

The thought that Lauren finally had thing implicit her was troubling for Cindy, truthful she rapidly thought up a vicious plan.

In The Vic, she spoke with girl Gina (Francesca Henry) astir wherever she utilized to get her drugs proviso from. Gina mentioned that Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara) had helped her successful the past.

After speaking to him, and gathering a dealer, Cindy approached Lauren’s level with a acquisition – immoderate pills. Lauren was shocked, but was much than blessed to instrumentality them disconnected her.

Has Lauren made a sedate mistake?

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