Coronation Street star struck by illness after having to 'cry every day' during last nine months on ITV soap
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFormer Coronation Street star Lucy Jo-Hudson has opened up about the draining end to her time in the show. It has been more than 20 years since the actress played troubled teenager Katy Harris in Weatherfield.
Her dramatic time on the cobbles included her forbidden relationship with older man Martin Platt, which led to her murdering her own dad Tommy with a wrench, her diabetic diagnosis and in her departing storyline she tragically took her own life with the hard scenes stripped across an entire special week.
Lucy-Jo has now told of the strain of filming her difficult storyline for the ITV soap, including how she cried most days on set for 'around nine months'. READ MORE: Coronation Street's Lisa George addresses reason for leaving soap as Beth Tinker amid health fears READ MORE: Read more of our Coronation Street stories here The 41-year-old said on the Conversation Street podcast: "The story like was actually dragged out over a whole year so I remember filming Monday to Friday, 12 hour days and then night shoots and everything was constant.
Katy crying, Katy's sobbing, Katy's upset, oh she's crying again and oh she's sobbing again and I was like 'oh my god'. "For 12 hours a day, every day, for at least nine months I was having to cry every day so I'll be honest I was desperate for a holiday after it.
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