Emmerdale’s 90s flashback reveals tormented childhood secret of TV icon

Fans are chomping astatine the spot to find retired what happened to Ruby Fox-Miligan (Beth Cordingly) each those years agone that led to specified a catastrophic breakdown of her narration with her parents successful Emmerdale. Buckle up, present we go.

Some person speculated she was abused by her dad, others by her mum, but immoderate happened, the concealed is bubbling nether the aboveground present that her dada Anthony (Nicholas Day) and girl Steph (Georgia Jay) are successful town.

Ruby is hardly coping with the value of her blameworthy concealed – that she slept with Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) portion Moira (Natalie J Robb) was having a encephalon op – connected apical of the confrontation of her traumatising childhood. It’ll get worse each because of a elemental photo.

During a parent girl moment, Steph convinced Ruby to look done the container of memories her grandma had near her. But coming crossed a representation of herself aged 15 successful a schoolhouse azygous caused Ruby to freeze. What had the representation triggered?

One of the reasons fixed for Ruby’s estrangement from her parents is that they disproved of Caleb Miligan (William Ash). But during a speech with Brenda Walker (Lesley Dunlop), Anthony learns from a gaffe of Brenda’s lingua that Caleb cheated connected Ruby with Tracy Shankley (Amy Walsh).

This proves that Anthony was close each on – Caleb is simply a deadbeat.

It’s a desperately bittersweet realisation for him. He is enraged astir the find and confronts Caleb astir the affair.

Ruby – blameworthy of having cheated with Cain herself – tries to caput disconnected Anthony, but helium won’t driblet it. She’s near perturbed by however persistent helium is.

It leads to a reconciliation of sorts betwixt Ruby and Steph. But with Anthony truthful insistent, Ruby is near feeling uneasy and is mentally sent flying backmost to the clip erstwhile her parents treated her truthful badly.

This sparks a flashback episode, triggered by Steph uncovering a photograph of Ruby connected her 16th birthday. Ruby pretends she doesn’t remember, but it’s wide she remembers it arsenic if it were yesterday.

Secrets of Ruby’s past volition beryllium revealed successful the peculiar episode, volition we yet larn what happened to her?

Will secrets of her contiguous travel retired too?

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