Coronation Street star Jane Hazlegrove has shared how her own personal loss is impacting her time on the cobbles as her character also prepares for tragedy. The actress is much-loved for playing Bernie Winter in the ITV soap and has now revealed she has been struggling with the loss of her father while filming her current emotional storyline.
Jane is currently part of the Motor Neurone Disease storyline the soap is tackling after her on-screen son Paul Foreman, played by Peter Ash, was diagnosed with the devastating disease. Paul discovered the heartbreaking news that he has the fatal, rapidly progressing disease that affects the brain and spinal cord, in scenes aired in April.
But the former builder, who only discovered anything was wrong after he was accidentally knocked over by Carla Connor in her Underworld van when she had been unknowingly drugged with LSD by Stephen Reid, kept the news from his loved ones, only confiding in his friend and former flatmate Dee-Dee Bailey.
