direct to your inboxLeanne Battersby recently went through unimaginable tragedy on Coronation Street after the death of her three-year-old son Oliver, and in the new year there's horror when Simon Barlow finds her passed out after taking an overdose.In heartbreaking Christmas scenes Leanne was resigned to the fact that she needed to make her partner Nick Tilsley move out so that he could bond with his nine-year-old son, Sam.Then her step sister Toyah revealed that she was fostering a baby boy, which left Leanne reeling after her own loss.
Left alone for Christmas on Corrie the grieving mum pretended that she was going to France to spend it with her sister Eva.
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