Alison King has warned that there are turbulent times ahead for Carla Connor in Coronation Street as her fraught relationship with Peter Barlow (Chris Gascoyne) hits a rocky patch again – which then leads him down the dark path to his alcohol addiction once more.
Peter goes off the rails and starts snapping at Carla once again – and Alison admits that Carla is unsure over how to handle it.
The actress sighed: ‘She doesn’t agree with how Peter is dealing with things with Simon. She thinks things should be a bit more open and Simon should be put more in the picture about what is happening.
‘While she knows Leanne is trying to do the best thing for her child fundamentally the fall out with Peter comes from him telling her that she wouldn’t know what that is like, he brushes under the carpet the fact that they lost a child together and that she is a motherless vixen who can’t experience these things, and that is really her achilles heel, that is the thing that causes her pain and the thing she reacts to.
‘She has her brittle outer core but she has been through a lot and it has all shaped her and brought her to this place and she doesn’t need Peter brushing all that under the carpet.’
Things get worse when Peter ends up in a violent fight. And after it seems like Carla and Peter patch things up, she arranges a romantic night at a hotel for them both to get closer again – only for him to reject the offer.
Alison admitted: ‘She feels really shut out, she thinks that would be a good way to relax and recover but he isn’t interested and she obviously doesn’t know why. She feels like he doesn’t see her as a woman and that hurts.
‘She sees it as another example of him not really trying with the relationship and that is so difficult for her to deal with. He had all that time for Abby and he’s not really trying to mend their relationship.’
Abi Franklin (Sally Carman) then makes the discovery that Peter has fallen off the wagon, which leads to a whirlwind of emotions for Carla.
So how will she cope when Peter responds badly to her last ditch attempt to help the man she loves?
Alison revealed: ‘He reacts in typical Peter Barlow way and shuts her out again. But she also feels guilty as she knows she has taken her eye off the ball because she has got involved with other people’s business when she got back rather than realising there was something going on with him and there was a reason for his behaviour.
‘Instead she should have told him how she was feeling but instead she is going into self destruct mode again…’
And history proves that that never ends well for either Peter or Carla…
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