Lucy Fallon Opens Up About Mental Health Struggles

star has revealed she spent five weeks as an inpatient in a psychiatric hospital after suffering a catastrophic mental health crisis that left her feeling she had hit 'absolute rock bottom'.

The actress, 30, who plays Sarah Platt's daughter Bethany in the soap, has opened up for the first time about the harrowing ordeal, admitting she was in such a desperate state that she could not even imagine a future for herself.

'From quite young, I've always struggled. I've always been quite insecure. That got worse when we went through because I left Corrie and I wasn't really getting any work,' she said on the Secure the Insecure podcast.

Lucy left the soap in March 2020 after five years, just as the country was plunged into the first Covid lockdown and work opportunities dried up. She reprised her role in 2023.

She added: 'I was just at the absolute rock bottom that I've ever, ever felt. And I really, really, really struggled.

'I had a really bad batch of mental health towards the end of 2020 and I ended up being in The Priory for about five weeks because my mental health was so bad. I couldn't see a way out of feeling how I was feeling.'

The Priory is a private psychiatric hospital in south-west London where inpatient treatment costs upwards of £7,000 a week. Former patients include Robbie Williams, Amy Winehouse, Kate Moss and Paul Gascoigne.

Lucy - who is engaged to footballer Ryan Ledson, 28, with whom she shares son Sonny, three, and daughter Nancy, 13 months - admitted it was not her decision to check into the facility.

She explained: 'I ended up having to go to hospital, and it was from that point that other people were involved - my mum and my sisters and people that I'd worked with before.

'It almost felt like other people, other factors, were telling me, "Right, you need some serious help now. It's gone a bit too far." I really didn't want to do it. I didn't want to go and I even remember getting there. I really, really did not want to go in.'

The Blackpool-born actress continued: 'At first, I didn't feel like I was bad enough to be there. It almost felt like this just feels a bit alien and a bit strange, like, I don't know why I'm here.

'After a few weeks of being there, I was like, okay. I got to grips with it. And actually after a week of being there, I liked it. I felt quite safe. I met quite a lot of people there who I sometimes still keep in contact with now.'

Lucy admitted that leaving the facility was not easy. She was placed on medication - which she has since come off - and moved back in with her parents while she found her feet again.

'It took me a while to adjust,' she reflected. 'Coming out and being in the real world and just having to carry on felt strange. But I also had a really good support system around me.

Lucy admitted that leaving the facility was not easy. She was placed on medication - which she has since come off - and moved back in with her parents while she found her feet again