Coronation Street viewers have reacted after Claire Sweeney made her highly-anticipated debut on the soap. ITV bosses announced the Brookside star would be joining the cast as Weatherfield mechanic Tyrone Dobbs' mother and Evelyn Plummer's daughter earlier this year.
During the hour-long instalment on Wednesday, June 28, Claire's character, whose name is Cassandra Plummer, turned up on the cobbles out of the blue. However Evelyn later received a call and was told her daughter had been admitted to the hospital in an emergency following a drug overdose and the pair came face to face.
Powerful scenes unfolded as Cassie told her mum she'd learned that she was living with her son Tyrone despite believing Evelyn had left him at a police station in 1982 after she'd given birth to him at the age of 16. Evelyn then explained that Tyrone believes Cassie is dead after her daughter threatens to get back in touch with him.
