Coronation Street’s Vicky Myers addresses Lisa Swain’s feelings for Carla Connor amid ‘heart break’
Coronation Street star Vicky Myers has addressed Lisa Swain’s feelings for Carla Connor as their relationship continues to struggle amid the arrival of her late wife, Becky.
The detective sergeant has seemingly struggled as to what to do for the best after Becky emerged from the dead in September and confronted her in the living room of her new home, No6. Coronation Street, on their daughter Betsy’s 18th birthday.
Becky, who was believed to have died in the line of duty almost four years ago, claimed she was in witness protection in Spain after an undercover operation went wrong, and Lisa’s boss, DI Costello was in on faking her death.
But Becky’s return couldn’t have come at a worse time for Lisa as she and her new partner, Carla Connor, had moved into their first home together, and officially got engaged in a public display outside of the Underworld factory following a number of failed proposal attempts.
This week, with an attack on Costello causing a major distraction, her heart broken, Corrie fans will see Carla deciding she’s going to call time on her relationship. Later, Carla breaks the news to Lisa that it’s over between them, leaving her stunned.
And it’s fair to say that it’s not what Lisa wants. “At this point she’s numb, there’s just so much going on,” Vicky Myers, who plays her, said. “She obviously still has a love for Becky, but where Carla’s concerned she’s never known anything like it.
“The relationship that she’s experienced, the family dynamic, the maturity that’s been brought out in Betsy since Carla has been in her life. Her family was complete as far as Lisa was concerned and then this bomb went off and shattered everything.
Becky has been getting in the way of Lisa’s new relationship with Carla(Image: ITV)
“At this point, I don’t think Lisa has any idea how she’s feeling, she’s so confused, her heart’s broken. There’s hope there, but what does she do about Becky? What does she do about Betsy? At this moment in time, Lisa feels she can’t do anything right.”
According to new spoilers for next week’s Corrie, Lisa tells Carla that despite what she thinks, it’s her she wants to be with. But will Carla be swayed from her decision to call time on their romance?
And Vicky doesn’t seem to think Lisa can be swayed by Becky. “I think the love for Carla is too deep at this stage.” the actress admitted. “But Lisa has been so manipulated by Costello, with him saying you don’t know how hard Becky tried to get hold of you and he put the block on it.
“So we’ve got to remember that as far as Lisa is concerned, yes there might be holes in Becky’s story, but there’s the potential here that if she picks this scab, that a whole 20 years of her life may have been a lie. I think her judgement is also blurred by the heartbreak she’s going through with Carla and the fact that she’s being told by her superior that this was all the above board, it was an order from above. There’s a hierarchy, she can’t go and make waves, she needs her job and she’s got to be very careful.”