Lucy Fallon Takes Baby Nancy to Hospital Urgently

has revealed she had to rush her baby daughter to hospital with a 'dramatic illness'.

The former actress, 30, is mother to Sonny, three, and 13-month-old Nancy with her fiancé Ryan Ledson. 

Taking to her Instagram Stories on Wednesday evening, Lucy told her followers she would be quiet on social media in the coming days.

Sharing a photo of Nancy, she wrote: 'Radio silence this week from me as Nancy was admitted to hospital on Monday. She loves a dramatic illness this chick!'

Lucy, who played Sarah Platt's daughter Bethany in the  soap, did not give any furhter details of her daughter's illness. 

The actress recently 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'.

Lucy 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 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.

'Going and being with my mum and dad for a few weeks after, rather than just going back to my house, was a really nice thing - especially to have your tea cooked for you every night. And all my washing done as well.'

Reflecting on how unrecognisable that version of herself now feels, she said: 'It seems like a completely different life.

'I feel like that was a totally different version of me. And I've been lucky enough to say that I did manage to get myself out of it, because I know for so many people that's not the reality and you can stay on that level and it's really hard to get out of feeling like that.'

She added that meeting her now-fiance Ryan, a Preston North End midfielder - on the celebrity dating app Raya - helped her begin her new chapter.

'I would say I still, for a while, felt insecure,' she admitted. 'I felt like I had so much baggage with everything that had happened. It was a conversation I had with him almost straight away.

'I just accepted that, that was a blip in my mental health and in my own journey. I do deserve to be happy and to be in the relationship that I'm in, and I deserve the job that I've had. I've worked really hard.

' I don't know if it was to do with being at The Priory for five weeks. I don't know if it was that. But things just kind of stayed at a good level for me.'

However, tragedy hit in early 2022 when she fell pregnant and suffered a miscarriage. 'I felt devastated,' she said. 'I felt like: how can this thing that I thought was going to be this amazing chapter just be taken away? I also felt like everybody else could just carry on with what they were doing, and I felt stuck. I can't lie, that lasted a while. I felt like I really struggled to shake it.'

The only thing that helped pull her through, she said, was falling pregnant again relatively quickly. Their son Sonny Jude arrived the following year, which has helped Lucy reframe the experience of loss.

'If that hadn't happened, we wouldn't have Sonny,' she said. 'Even though it was horrendous, it almost showed me how much I wanted that to be the next chapter in my life.'

The couple's daughter Nancy was born in January 2025 and Ryan proposed to Lucy on her 30th birthday in November last year.

Lucy returned to Coronation Street on New Year's Eve 2023, reprising her role as Bethany.

She added that she is now in a better place than she has ever been, even if she has some down days.

'I wouldn't say that I wake up every morning with a spring in my step,' she said. 'I wake up sometimes and I'm like, I can't be a**ed with this day.

'But then other days I wake up and I'm like, come on, let's seize the day. Let's go.

'Even though I'm so appreciative, I get overwhelmed. Sometimes I'll wake up and I'll think, oh my god, how am I supposed to look after two children all day? I'm scared, even though they're my children.'

She continued: 'But I'd say mentally, I feel very content, even though there's days where I feel a bit s***. Generally, I feel like I've got myself together.'