Yahoo News Coronation Street star reveals Bethany's guilt in huge new storyline
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Coronation Street star Lucy Fallon has revealed that Bethany Platt will feel “guilt” during her new storyline.
The character, who returned to Weatherfield last year, will see her life changed following a botched liposuction procedure in Turkey, with Bethany subsequently being hospitalised after contracting sepsis.
Fallon, who debuted as Bethany in 2015, explained her character’s decision making in the storyline, saying: “I don’t think Bethany had any intention to get liposuction at all, I think it was a spur of the moment decision.
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“She didn’t state she was having liposuction or any type of surgery on her travel insurance, so I do think it was something she just decided once out there, which she will forever regret, I do also think she may have been talked into it when she went out there.
“I think Bethany’s confidence and self-esteem has always been really low, especially after everything that happened with Nathan and the grooming storyline. With her insecurities, I think she’s always had it in her to do something like this.
“She’s also constantly comparing herself to Daisy and has been feeling particularly bad [after] thinking that Daniel might want to be with Daisy instead of her. So I think she wanted to do something that would ultimately make her feel more confident, but without realising the danger she was putting herself in.
“At first, she’s embarrassed and worried about being intimate and actually, It’s made her feel even more insecure than she ever felt before. Daniel is a really supportive boyfriend so I think with him trying to support and encourage Bethany, she will ultimately just push him away because of her insecurities.”
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Following her stint in hospital, Bethany will be fitted with a stoma bag, with the storyline having financial ramifications on the entire Platt family after Bethany neglected to mention the surgery on her travel insurance form.
“Bethany will take it really badly because obviously it wasn’t her intention to get the surgery in the first place so now that she has not only affected her own life, but severely affected everyone’s life around her, she’s going to feel horrifically guilty,” said Fallon.
“Now that the pressure is on the Platts to raise the funds to pay for her medical bills and get her home, she’s just going to feel like it’s the end of the world. Bethany feels really embarrassed and ashamed of what she’s done and put everyone through.
“I don’t think Bethany will want anyone to know what’s happened to her and how she’s ended up with the stoma bag. Obviously she feels it’s entirely self inflicted, which it is, but of course she wasn’t to know this was going to happen and go disastrously wrong which is why she is feeling humiliated.”
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Fallon, who returned to the soap after a three-year absence, also spoke about the storyline from a broader standpoint, namely her preparation for the scenes and the producers’ collaboration with Colostomy UK.
“I knew a little bit about stomas before filming the storyline because I had seen more and more people talk about it on TV and social media,” she said. “There’s quite a lot of pages and people on TikTok who promote stoma positivity which is great. So I did know a little bit, but not as much as I do now.
“We worked closely with Colostomy UK who have been incredible. I had a meeting with two people from the charity who gave me a lot of insightful information and told me their thoughts and experiences of life with a stoma.
“They also spoke about what life was like for them after getting a stoma fitted, their struggles, what has changed and what hasn’t changed which was really helpful listening to everything they had to say.
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“As I also mentioned before, I’ve been doing a lot of my own research on social media like TikTok where you can actually watch people changing their stoma bags and hear about their experiences too.
“The next couple of months are definitely going to be really challenging for Bethany. I think her biggest struggle will be coming to terms with the fact that this is something she’s done to herself,” she continued about her future scenes.
“Hopefully in time, which I know she will, she’ll start to accept what’s happened and realise that having a stoma hasn’t actually affected her life as much as she probably thought it would, but I do think it will take a couple of setbacks and bumps in the road to eventually get there.”
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