Coronation Street star Lucy Fallon rushed baby daughter to hospital
Coronation Street actress Lucy Fallon has revealed her 13-month-old daughter Nancy was admitted to hospital on Monday (23.02.26).
Lucy Fallon rushed her 13-month-old daughter to hospital with a "dramatic illness".
Nancy was admitted to hospital on Monday (23.02.26), and although the Coronation Street actress did not reveal the tot's medical issue, Lucy noted this was the reason for her social media absence.
On Wednesday (25.02.26), Lucy, 30, shared a black-and-white photo of Nancy playing with Lego in a hospital waiting room to her Instagram Stories, and penned alongside it: "Radio silence this week from me as Nancy was admitted to hospital on Monday.
"She loves a dramatic illness this chick."
The star - who plays Bethany Platt on the ITV soap - told her fans that Nancy's health is improving.
Lucy - who also has a three-year-old son called Sonny with her 28-year-old fiance, footballer Ryan Ledson - added: "She’s doing much better now."
The post comes days after the actress revealed she spent five weeks as an inpatient in a psychiatric hospital after a mental health crisis that left her at "absolute rock bottom".
Lucy - who left Coronation Street in March 2020 after five years, as the first COVID-19 lockdown began, before reprising the role on New Year’s Eve 2023 - discussed it on Johnny Seifert’s Secure the Insecure podcast.
She shared: "From quite young, I’ve always struggled. I’ve always been quite insecure. That got worse when we went through lockdown because I left Corrie and I wasn’t really getting any work."
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."
Lucy added her admission to The Priory – a private psychiatric hospital in south-west London – was not her decision.
She said: "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.
"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."
The actress continued: “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."
Now, Lucy - who admitted that leaving The Priory was challenging - feels like she is living a completely new life.
Reflecting on that period, the star -who said meeting Ryan helped mark a new chapter in her life - said: "It seems like a completely different life.
She added: "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."
