Coronation Street’s Audrey Roberts confirms heartbreaking suicide attempt in harrowing storyline
thesun.co.ukCORONATION Street’s Audrey Roberts is to confess to trying to take her own life in a harrowing new storyline. The ITV soap will explore the issue of loneliness and its impact on mental health in a storyline featuring the veteran of the cobbles.
Audrey - who is played by actress Sue Nicholls - made her first appearance in the ITV soap in 1979, and last month viewers saw her receiving treatment in hospital after she overdosed.
In an emotional scene, which will be broadcast on August 15, Audrey confides in friends Roy, Rita, Claudia and Ken and admits to attempting suicide, despite previously telling her doctor she had only taken too many tablets by mistake.
However, while sitting at a belated birthday lunch with her friends, Audrey will reveal that she made an attempt on her life three weeks ago and only survived because a neighbour posting a leaflet spotted her and called an ambulance.
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