Sue Nicholls convinced ‘Coronation Street’ bosses to drop a loneliness storyline she didn’t want to film.
The 75-year-old actress has revealed the ‘Corrie’ script writers were planning to play out a story in which her character Audrey Roberts started "drinking a lot" on her own at home, and while the star admits she enjoys a tipple of an evening, she didn’t see why Audrey would have to become "depressed".
She said: "There was something pitched to me years ago that the storyline could be that Audrey was at home and going home drinking a lot – a bit true to life actually.
"Gail and the family would ask if she was lonely. I said I didn’t agree.
"I love my husband of course, but he isn’t with me all the time.
"I asked, ‘Why do you think somebody, of whatever age I was, that just because she works in the salon and goes home that she’s lonely and needs to drink? Not necessarily.’
"To be honest I can’t get wait to get home and plonk on the sofa, and yes pour the rosé, but it’s not because I’m depressed it’s because, ‘How wonderful, they’re all gone!’ "
After Sue questioned the plot, ‘Corrie’ bosses decided against it.
She added to Digital Spy: "I tried to pitch it back to them that I didn’t want to play a drunk forlorn little thing. It is nice that they went the other way."
Audrey reconciled with ‘Corrie’ conman Lewis Archer (Nigel Havers) recently, but he is expected to meet his maker next year.
And Nigel recently fuelled such rumours, admitting Lewis’ fate on the cobbles is "looking grim".
Speaking about the speculated storyline, he said: "It’s not looking good – it’s looking grim."
However, Lewis could return from beyond the grave to reconcile with Audrey.
When asked if show bosses could bring him back to life, he replied: "Of course they can. Of course, [death is] not [terminal]."
Sue Nicholls convinced Corrie bosses to axe Audrey loneliness plot
