Coronation Street’s Kym Marsh leaves This Morning viewers in tears as she opens up to Holly Willoughby about reliving her still birth heartbreak onscreen
KYM Marsh left This Morning viewers in tears today as she told Holly Willoughby about the pain of reliving the death of her son for a Coronation Street story line.
The actress appeared on the show today to talk about the soap's heartbreaking storyline, and she battled her emotions as she spoke about her own devastating loss.
The actress relived her own harrowing loss of baby son Archie in the soap, as her character Michelle Connor and husband Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson) lost baby Ruairi just 23 weeks into the pregnancy.
The 40-year-old and ex-husband Jamie Lomas were left devastated in 2009 was born 18 weeks early and died within minutes.
Kym opened up about the loss during an emotional interview with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on This Morning today.
Michelle's voice cracked as she talked about losing her son, and Holly looked devastated as she listened to the sad story.
Viewers were also left heartbroken by the candid chat, in which Kym explained that she felt as if Archie was "wiped from history" because the authorities would not provide her with a birth certificate.
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One tweeted: "Wow @msm4rsh well done on a very sensitive & personal subject...
"In tears, very close to my heart and you did it so well."
Another added: "The Kym Marsh story on this morning has broke my heart..."
One tweeted: "A sign of a great performance is if it can make me cry. Kym Marsh made me cry..........buckets #ThisMorning."
Kym and Jamie went on to have daughter Polly in 2011 before splitting, and the actress admitted she had revisited "some dark places" in preparation for the Corrie story.
Her efforts certainly paid off, with Corrie fans taking to social media to heap praise on her, along with her co-stars.
Many fans of the show had suffered a similar experience and took to Twitter to share their painful memories and to praise the ITV soap for raising awareness.
As well as the outpouring of support from viewers, many charities praised Corrie's handling of the sensitive storyline and emphasised how it was important to air the tough storyline in order to break the stigma surrounding miscarriage and stillbirth.
Pregnancy research and information charity told The Sun Online they "really admired" Kym Marsh's "bravery in filming these scenes and think her acting in last night’s episode was particularly powerful and sensitive".