EastEnders shares update on absent character amid heartbreaking Phil Mitchell storyline

EastEnders has shared an update connected Ben Mitchell (Max Bowden) amid a heartbreaking mental health storyline involving Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden).

Ben near Walford past year aft being arrested for fraud. Because the transgression was committed successful America, helium is down bars overseas.

As a result, it means the likes of Callum Highway (Tony Clay), Jay Brown (Jamie Borthwick), and Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth) person to travel determination to spot him.

In tonight’s episode, Callum returned to Albert Square aft spending a information of the festive play successful the US.

He had an update connected Ben, and recovered Phil successful the café to archer him.

Callum said that Ben is doing truly well. He is ‘keeping a debased profile’ and has adjacent go funny successful originative writing.

Callum near the speech feeling unimpressed, owed to Phil’s deficiency of absorption towards the quality astir his son.

This is due to the fact that Phil is continuing to look a hard conflict with his intelligence health.

Yesterday, it was confirmed the storyline would yet pb to the character attempting to extremity his life.

EastEnders has been moving with charities The Samaritans, Rethink Mental Illness, the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), and Mind to guarantee Phil’s communicative is portrayed arsenic accurately and arsenic sensitively as possible.

A spokesperson for the soap went into further item connected the story, explaining: ‘Having withdrawn from his household and friends successful caller months pursuing Sharon’s newfound narration with his relative Teddy, the breakdown of his matrimony to Kat, and Ben’s incarceration successful America, viewers volition proceed to spot Phil’s intelligence wellness diminution arsenic helium attempts to fell his slump from those astir him.

‘The storyline volition travel Phil, and the characters closest to him, arsenic Phil’s slump takes clasp and his psychotic symptoms intensify, with the quality experiencing hallucinations astatine the situation constituent wherever helium starts to judge his beingness is nary longer worthy living.’

Pictures precocious showed the formed filming astatine a graveyard, with Phil looking upset and intelligibly struggling.

Show boss Chris Clenshaw continued, adding: ‘Phil’s slump storyline volition absorption connected his diminution successful intelligence wellness and the consequent psychotic symptoms, and the absorption of those astir him, arsenic we anticipation to show however intelligence wellness tin impact anyone astatine immoderate time.

‘Steve’s show is thing abbreviated of bonzer and has thoughtfully portrayed the analyzable realties of depression, and the acquisition of psychotic symptoms, with compassion and understanding.’

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