This article contains spoilers for tonight’s Coronation Street, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on ITVX.
Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) got the fright of her life in recent Coronation Street scenes when abuser Joel Deering (Calum Lill) seemingly made a return from the dead.
The teen agreed to join Betsy Swain (Sydney Martin) at Aadi Alahan’s (Adam Hussain) midsummer party, and ended up drinking lemonade spiked with LSD by mistake.
The drug caused her to hallucinate, and when she went stumbling into the ginnel, a man approached her asking if she was okay.
In her delirious state, Lauren believed the man to be Joel and completely panicked.
Viewers will know that Joel put Lauren through hell last year, when he groomed her before attacking and leaving her for dead.
An investigation was launched into her murder, before she eventually turned up alive and pregnant with Joel’s baby.
As if he hadn’t been cruel enough, Joel drugged Lauren with pills designed to induce early labour in an attempt to make her lose the baby.
Fortunately, his plan failed, and Lauren gave birth to son Frankie.
Joel continued to bring Lauren misery, until she eventually killed him by hitting him over the head with a rock while he tried to strangle Max Turner to death.
She was later found not guilty of his murder in court, and has been trying to rebuild her life with Frankie ever since.
As her hallucinations got stronger, Lauren stumbled into the factory, where she believed that Joel had taken Frankie.
By the time Aadi finally found her, Lauren was hysterical. Will she recover from her horrifying ordeal, or is it set to open up old wounds?
