Yahoo News Coronation Street star promises "heartbreaking" scenes for the Bailey family
Coronation Street star Lorna Laidlaw has promised that there will be "heartbreaking" scenes ahead for the Bailey family as Aggie finds out the real reason why the family lost their house.
The Baileys arrived on the cobbles earlier this year as they downsized and moved into No. 3, with Aggie (Laidlaw) believing that her eldest son Michael (Ryan Russell) and his money-making schemes were to blame for their financial worries.
But when Aggie's bank card is refused next week and she's left wondering why the family is short on cash, her husband Ed (Trevor Michael Georges) decides that it's time to tell Aggie the truth – confessing that his gambling addiction was to blame for them losing everything.
"Ed has got a gambling addiction. He's gambled before, and promised he’d never do it again," Lorna recently shared.
"That's why Michael took the responsibility on his shoulders and took the blame for Ed. It's a lovely thing for a son to do really, to take that massive thing, because he does not want his mum and dad to split up, which is so sweet. But Ed lost the house and it all gets revealed, really slowly.
"A card gets declined then it starts to escalate. When it is all revealed, it's absolutely heartbreaking."
The actress also shared that Aggie is "absolutely heartbroken" by the revelations, and added that she and Trevor worked hard to establish for audiences why this isn't a marriage that would quickly fall apart after the truth came out.
"When I read it, I thought kick him out! But then you read again and what me and Trevor have tried to do is set up how in love they are, and how much they love their kids. Once you've got that right, you can see why she would go back to him," Lorna explained.
"We tried really hard to make you see how they work together, how funny they are, and the cuddling and kissing. All of that is there before it starts to fall apart. I thought it was really important we show that.
"As it goes on I think she'd be frightened if he had his phone, frightened if he came home and didn't turn up at work. It's that fear factor of not trusting somebody. I think it's looking at that."
She added: "It's a very traumatic thing. Your whole existence being taken away because of one person's actions. It's a massive thing for a family to go through as well."
Lorna also revealed that Aggie does leave the family at one point, needing time to herself to process the news, and added that she thinks it was a good move for her character to make.
"There's a massive scene where she does leave, and everyone panics whether she'll come back again and I think that's right," she said.
"She needs space just to compute everything. What do we want and what do we need to make this right again? I don't think you can do that in the home situation. You need to get yourself out of it."
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