Coronation Street is set to air a storyline in which Lucy Fallonâs character, Bethany Platt, has her life changed over a botched cosmetic surgery abroad.
In the new story, Bethany will contract sepsis which leaves her with a permanent stoma.
It comes as Bethany decided to undergo liposuction at a clinic after she accepted a job with a cosmetic surgery company to write an advertorial on their new facility in Turkey.
Following the procedure, Bethanyâs family has to work out how to raise funds to get her discharged as she did not declare the surgery on her travel insurance.
Coronation Street to air botched cosmetic surgery with Bethany Platt
Fallon said: âWhen I first heard about it I was pleased that they have trusted me with it because itâs an important storyline and, of course, I really enjoy doing issue-based storylines.
âObviously, this is really hard-hitting, which is exciting from an actorâs point of view, but it does come with quite a lot of pressure and responsibility to get it right because this happens to real life people.
âThe storyline is also incredibly important as there (are) countless horror stories out there of people talking about their experiences of cosmetic surgery abroad.
âI really hope this storyline can make people rethink going abroad for cosmetic surgery.â
Corrie's Bethany has an operation and is given a permanent stoma after the procedure and, for the storyline, the British soap has been working closely with UK charity Colostomy UK.
Giovanni Cinque, marketing and campaigns manager at Colostomy UK, said about Coronation Street's new story: âWeâre really excited that one of the UKâs most loved TV shows is going to feature a major character living with a stoma.
âEven though public awareness has grown considerably over the last few years thanks to a number of celebrities revealing they have had surgery, the challenges that the 200,000 plus people living with a stoma in the UK face are less known, which means that we, as a society and as individuals, are not as aware as we should be of the choices that we can make to positively improve their quality of life.
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âWe really hope that Bethanyâs journey will go a long way in helping to educate the audience, and thus help to create a more Stoma Aware UK. Itâs also been a pleasure for us to work with the behind-the-scenes teams at Coronation Street on this storyâ.
A stoma is an opening on the surface of the abdomen which has been surgically created to divert the flow of faeces or urine, according to the Colostomy UK website.
The operation to divert one end of the colon through an opening in the stomach is called a colostomy.
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