Coronation Street has dropped a huge Christina Boyd twist, as she revealed that Lucy’s murdered mum Rachel was actually her daughter.
George was left stunned at the end of Wednesday’s episode (September 23) when Christina showed him a locket containing a picture of a baby. She then revealed the baby was Rachel, meaning Christina is Lucy’s grandmother.
So why did Christina give her daughter away? And how has she coped with discovering Rachel has been brutally murdered? We caught up with Amy Robbins, who plays Christina, to find out more.
Christina’s locket contained a picture of her baby, Rachel, in Coronation Street (Credit: ITV)
Christina is Rachel’s mum in Coronation Street, so why did she give away her child?
The immediate question is who Rachel’s father was and why Christina had to give her away.
Amy reveals: “She was seduced by her boss as a young girl. She thought that this man was gonna leave his wife for her, but of course he didn’t. And he broke her heart.
“She was left as a single mother, age 18, with a child. She took the baby home for three months, tried to breastfeed, but she couldn’t.
“Christina couldn’t cope, and she had postnatal depression. And she didn’t know what to do.”
The baby then went to live with her real father, a decision Christina has always regretted.
Amy says: “The man who was the father of the baby said, ‘well, actually, my wife and I have never been able to have children, and we’d like to adopt the child. We’ll give the child a nice life. I’ve got plenty of money’.
“Poor old Christina said, ‘Yeah’, because she wanted the baby to have a good life, and she knew she couldn’t give it to her, and she hadn’t bonded with her because she was so depressed.
“And she spends the rest of her life regretting it and burying it and not talking about it, pretending it didn’t happen. Which, is really sad.”
Despite his shock George is there for Christina (Credit: ITV)
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