Lucy Fallon spent five weeks in psychiatric hospital
In an emotional admission on a podcast, Coronation Street actress Lucy Fallon revealed she spent five weeks as an inpatient in a psychiatric hospital after what she described as a catastrophic mental health crisis that left her at “absolute rock bottom”.
Lucy Fallon spent five weeks as an inpatient in a psychiatric hospital after what she described as a catastrophic mental health crisis that left her at “absolute rock bottom”.
Lucy, 30, who plays Bethany Platt – the daughter of Sarah Platt – in ITV’s Coronation Street, spoke for the first time about the experience on the Secure the Insecure podcast.
She left the programme in March 2020 after five years, as the first Covid lockdown began and work opportunities slowed, before returning to the role on New Year’s Eve 2023.
Lucy said: “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.”
