Coronation Street’s Kym Marsh admits she ‘revisited some dark places’ with emotional miscarriage storyline following her own heartbreak
KYM Marsh has opened up about her emotional miscarriage storyline on Coronation Street, admitting it forced her to revisit some "dark places".
The actress, who plays Michelle Connor on the ITV show, said she can feel "proud" of her performance, as she hopes to support other people going through the same devastating time.
Michelle and Steve will lose their baby later this week in heartbreaking circumstances and Steve is set to blame himself.
Speaking about the difficult storyline and watching the scenes back for the first time, Kym told is has been "traumatic".
The star lost her own son Archie who was born prematurely in 2009.
Kym told the magazine: "Watching it back reinforced why I agreed to do the storyline in the first place – to help other people who’ve gone though something similar."
She added: "I think we’ve done it justice and I can be proud of it. Yes, I’ve been to some dark places and I’ve had to revisit the emotions I felt when I lost Archie, but hopefully some people will gain from it."
Kym went on: "I’ve had a lot of lovely messages already from both charities that raise awareness of stillbirth and from other ‘angel mummies’, as we call ourselves, who have been through a similar traumatic experience. My family have been really supportive and are proud of me."
After narrowly missing out on a National Television Award nomination for Serial Drama Performance, Kym, who was long-listed for the award said: "I’m not disappointed at all, though, as Jack P Shepherd [who plays David Platt] is up for the award for Corrie and he thoroughly deserves it.
"I’m really pleased for him and I do hope he wins as he’s been fab all year!"
Viewers flocked to social media to blast the music choice as 'disgraceful' and 'inappropriate' as the heartbreaking scenes played out on screen and in another scene the Bay City Rollers' Bye Bye Baby played.
"@ITVCorrie playing 'bye bye baby' at the start of the 2nd show is very insensitive," tweeted one viewer. "I'm a bereaved mum and didn't like this at all."
"Bye Bye Baby in the background in the Rovers is quite inappropriate," said a third while another added: "Bye Bye Baby on in the Rovers whilst Michelle's having a miscarriage? Disgraceful."
The music appeared to be all baby themed in the Rovers as Michelle and Leanne's joint baby shower continued on.
After Steve McDonald arrived in time for the scan, the nurse found a heartbeat and told Michelle they would keep her in the hospital for 48 hours to monitor the situation.
"Please just hang on," Michelle said as Steve went to get her a brew, but tragedy is just around the corner.
- Read the full story in this week's OK! Magazine - out today