Coronation Street spoilers follow.
Coronation Street star Jane Hazlegrove has spoken about her character Bernie Winter’s big secret.
In scenes airing on the ITV soap next week, the arrival of Paul and Gemma’s dad Denny will stir up memories, with an emotional Bernie revealing to Dev that she had another son named Zodiac, who was taken into care as a child.
“He’s so wonderful with her, and he will allow her behaviour to a degree, even when it is wrong,” Hazlegrove said of Bernie’s decision to confide in Dev.
“When she’s made massive mistakes, he’s quite happy to do that and to be the voice of reason. But he’s not immediately empathetic about this, and she has to explain why she gave her child up.”
Explaining why Bernie made the difficult decision to put Zodiac into care, she continued: “Her and Denny were having a really bad time and they decided they were going to split up. She went out and got off her face and a couple of months later she’s pregnant, and it’s quite apparent that is not Denny’s.
“She thought she was going to be able to cope once the baby arrived but she already had the twins, Denny is no longer around and she has got no one. She was really, really struggling but also still quite selfish, I think.
“There’s a certain selflessness with doing what she did, thinking that this child would be better off with people who could give him a better life. But she still feels everyone would judge her.”
