An emotional Debbie Webster (Sue Devaney) comes close to revealing her dementia diagnosis to Abi Webster (Sally Carman-Duttine) in Coronation Street next week.
For the last few months, viewers of the ITV soap have seen the icon begin to suffer symptoms something wasn’t quite right.
She later booked an appointment at a private hospital, with the doctor referring her to a neurologist for further tests, believing that her symptoms could be a sign of dementia.
The floor then fell from beneath Debbie’s feet when the neurologist confirmed the doctor’s suspicions, before explaining that there was no medication to treat the illness.
She’s kept the diagnosis a secret ever since – only allowing her estranged half-brother Carl (Jonathan Howard) know. Even her long-term partner Ronnie Bailey (Vinta Morgan) has been left in the dark.
In upcoming scenes, she heads to the Viaduct Bistro to drown her sorrows in the wake of their breakup.
Debbie crying while sitting opposite Abi in the bistro in Coronation Street
Abi finds Debbie in a drunken state (Picture: ITV)
Debbie crying while sitting opposite Abi in the bistro in Coronation Street
She begins to talk about her dementia (Picture: ITV)
Debbie had decided that she didn’t want Ronnie to become her carer, and it was best that she ended things before her condition worsened.
As the spoiler video shows, she knocks back the vodkas as a concerned Abi watches on.
The conversation turns to Kevin Webster’s (Michael Le Vell) recent cancer diagnosis, with Debbie telling her sister-in-law that she had reservations about their relationship when they first got together.
Abi finds much hilarity in Debbie describing her as a ‘dodgy piece of work’, but is warmed when she’d told that Kevin is very lucky to have someone supporting him through everything.
Carl walks in on Debbie crying to Abi in the bistro in Coronation Street
As she prepares to admit the truth, Carl enters (Picture: ITV)
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However, Debbie then cries out: ‘It’s so unfair.’
In her drunken state, she’s started talking about herself.
Breaking down crying, she says that she’s going to continue downing the alcohol as she wants to forget… then realises the gravity of what she’s saying.
Abi begins to wonder if something else is going on in her life, to which she begins to say she’s had some bad news.
Just as Debbie prepares to bravely admit the truth, Carl enters and finds the women in the centre of a difficult conversation.
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