Beverley Callard has hit out at Coronation Street bosses saying she had "no life" during her 31 years on the soap.
The actress, 64, who stepped down from her role as Liz McDonald in 2020, said she worked six days a week and filmed from 7am to 10pm in the evening.
Beverley also took a swipe at the writers of the hit ITV soap as she spoke of why she doesn't think the "scripts are as good now", in comparison to when she first made her appearance as Liz in 1989.
In an interview with The Sun, Beverley said of her decision to leave: "As an actor, you're scared to say no to a job, but the scripts came and I thought I've just got to trust my instincts really.
"It’s not nine to five, it’s like seven until ten at night and it’s six days a week, it’s really full on and you have no life, like it used to be a lot harder years ago when the cast was smaller."
She added: "I personally don’t think the scripts are as good now, I think we're overloaded with soap operas, which is a shame."
The soap star went on to say how she has found casting directors can be "quite snooty about scripts", and she has turned down work that has come in since her Coronation Street departure.
However, she sometimes finds herself second guessing herself the next day as to whether she should have gone for it.
Mirror Online has contacted ITV for comment.
Back in September, Beverley touched upon how she was a "workaholic" and began to struggle on set because she was suffering with depression.
She told the Daily Star at the time: "I'd struggled for so long knowing something was wrong but not on set knowing exactly what it was.
"You say all those things to yourself, like 'get a grip.' In the end I couldn't go on any longer. With hindsight I know I was a workaholic."
"Clinical depression is a curse of the strong. It does not happen to weak people. It does not happen to people who are quitters."
Beverley previously claimed she was ousted from the Coronation Street 50th anniversary special because of her mental health.
Speaking on Melanie Blake's YouTube series Girl Talk, Beverley said: "I had returned to work and I was filming virtually every scene every day because the McDonalds were involved in a storyline.
"Then a man said to me, you are not going to be involved in the 50th storyline of Coronation Street's birthday, because you've had clinical depression you may be flaky and unreliable."
She feels she would be treated differently if she was a man.
"Men are treated differently, completely differently," she added.
"A man can tell someone off on set and say I am not accepting this, it will be fine."
