Inside Coronation Street star Vicky Myers’ life – from cancer battle to bitter divorce

VICKY Myers has been a portion of our lives playing the relation of DS Swain connected Coronation Street for 3 years.

The histrion archetypal joined the long-running ITV soap arsenic portion of the gruesome acerb onslaught storyline.

Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan) and Ryan Connor (Ryan Prescott) faced the wrath of stalker, Justin Rutherford (Andrew Still).

DS Swain (Myers) was connected manus successful the aftermath to analyse the incidental successful May 2021.

Since then, Coronation Street bosses person made her a full-time character and a mainstay connected the soap.

Recent scenes person seen her play a captious relation successful the storyline surrounding Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) and Joel Deering (Calum Lill).

However, beingness wasn't ever casual for the 48-year-old histrion who antecedently revealed that she received a devastating crab diagnosis.

This was successful the aforesaid twelvemonth arsenic her divided from her husband, which forced her to enactment her acting ambitions connected hold.

Vicky antecedently told The Mirror: "I don't cognize if it's my erstwhile aesculapian history, but I americium truthful arrogant to beryllium present and conscionable to beryllium surviving each time to the full.

"When my hubby and I divided up, I was rather down, bitter and vengeful, and erstwhile I was told I had [cancer], I retrieve thinking, 'If this is it for me, I've missed retired connected each this clip with my girl and I haven't truly been the champion idiosyncratic that I wanted to be.'

"The diagnosis re-centred maine and made maine absorption connected what is truly important and what makes maine happy. Now, each clip I spell into enactment and spot the Coronation Street sign, it's rather overwhelming."

Her stint arsenic DS Lisa Swain is the 4th quality she has played connected the serial drama, but it's her archetypal arsenic a main character.

Although the histrion is enjoying beingness much than ever now, her satellite was turned upside down successful 2010.

Vicky antecedently accompanied her nephew to an assignment astatine the doctors.

The aesculapian professionals noticed a unusual people connected her leg, and it was this accidental brushwood that saved her life.

"My nephew has a bosom condition. As we were astir to leave, the doc asked, 'Can I analyse that people connected your leg?' Within 5 days I was hospitalised," she admitted.

"I had connected three-quarter magnitude combat trousers that day. They tin beryllium rolled up into shorts, which I did successful the car conscionable earlier the consultation, owed to the sweltering vigor of the June day.

"It's rather astounding to see that if it had been a gloomy time the doc would ne'er person noticed the tiny acheronian people connected my calf. I surely had a guardian angel looking retired for maine that day."

Doctors discovered that she had skin cancer, and Vicky was forced to person reconstructive country arsenic her erstwhile spouse helped to look aft their daughter, Meghan.

It was fractional a twelvemonth aboriginal erstwhile she attempted to audition for roles again, but she had grown bushed of the relentless rejections.

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In 2013, she admitted that she chose to wantonness her aspirations for a vocation arsenic an actress, saying: "I felt financially, mentally and physically I needed a interruption conscionable to breathe.

"Being an histrion was tough. Sometimes the telephone didn't ring, oregon I wasn't chosen for a role. It was incredibly stressful and I did immoderate it took to wage the bills, adjacent ironing for others.

"You archer yourself it's not your clip yet, but that doesn't marque things easier erstwhile you person children and bills I conscionable couldn't marque it work."

She past recovered a occupation successful a casting location wherever she observed others arsenic they auditioned for assorted roles.

This inspired her to support going with her passion, arsenic she stated: "I knew I was going to return.

"Of course, I kept thinking, 'I request to unafraid a imperishable full-time job'. But I didn't. Some mightiness statement that arsenic stupidity oregon arrogance, but I would ne'er person been contented full-time successful an bureau job."

Her interruption came successful 2016 erstwhile she landed a relation successful the Harlan Coben helmed series, The Five.

This was followed by roles connected Ackley Bridge connected Channel 4 and The Long Shadow alongside the likes of David Morrissey and Toby Jones.

However, the eventual imagination from the Manchester autochthonal was to look connected Coronation Street.

Vicky - who comes from Stockport - admitted: "In the North, arsenic soon arsenic you notation you're an actress, radical inquire, 'Oh, person you been in Coronation Street?'

"Now I tin affirm I have. On my archetypal day, I strolled down the cobbles and I thought, 'I recognise you.' I've grown up watching the show, truthful it feels similar home."

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