Coronation Street actress Tina O'Brien has admitted that her character Sarah is behaving overly harshly towards Daniel (Rob Mallard).
In a storyline that has played out over the last few weeks, Sarah's daughter Bethany (Lucy Fallon) was hospitalised in Turkey after a liposuction operation went wrong and is unable to return to the UK until her hefty medical bills have been settled.
Her boyfriend Daniel was first on the plane to Turkey to be at her bedside, but he could have been there several hours earlier had he not ignored his phone while deep in discussion with his ex Daisy (Charlotte Jordan) - and when Sarah found out, she was livid with him.
"I think she's just lashing out," said O'Brien, who is about to mark 25 years playing Sarah. "She's really angry about the fact that Sarah believes there's potentially something going on between him and Daisy because she's overheard a few things but can't get to the bottom of it.
"She's angry with Daniel, but I don't think she would ever hold him responsible for Bethany choosing to get liposuction because at the end of the day, Bethany's a grown woman, and she makes her own decisions."
O'Brien went on to theorise that Sarah may have never really liked Bethany being with Daniel, explaining: "I don't think she does like them together.
"I think Sarah holds her tongue a lot, even from day dot, because Daniel got with Bethany around the time that his partner Sinead died, and he was clearly not over her and left Bethany in a bad way. I think she's always held her reservations about him."
Coronation Street continues Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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