SOAP DRAMA!!! Coronation Street icon returns to find her family destroyed and daughter homeless
Evelyn Plummer – played by Dame Maureen Lipman – has been away from the cobbles having decided to study law at university.
Returning to Weatherfield, scenes yet to air reveal how fractured Evelyn’s family has become.
Cassie was recently discovered to have been drugging and stealing from Ken Barlow (William Roache).
And as Evelyn opens her birthday presents, she shares her concern with Fiz and Tyrone.
The fan favourite says needs to help her drug-addicted daughter – rather than push her away.
Tracy later reveals how Cassie had spent the night in the ginnel – adding to Evelyn’s worry.
Cassie is desperate for a fix and therefore decides to call up a dealer.
They arrange a meet-up in the precinct, but are thwarted by Roy Cropper – who threatens to call the police.
Ultimately, Evelyn offers to give up her studies in order to take care of Cassie.
The Sun previously told how Maureen, 78, would be stepping back as a full-time cast member on Coronation Street.
The actress is taking a step back from her role as Evelyn to “enjoy life”, she exclusively told us.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Maureen said: “I’ll be absent for a while, and then coming back.
“I’m not going to die but then I’ll be in and out of it because I want to have a bit of a life.
“David and I are thinking of having a bit of a gap year.”
And she’s got her eye on new roles, adding: “I’m waiting to see what’s out there once I’m out there.
“There’s got to be something that Lesley Manville and Brenda Blethyn and Harriet Walters don’t play that I could do.”
She arrived on the cobbles in 2018, being introduced as Tyrone’s long-lost biological grandmother.
Evelyn initially told Tyrone how Cassie – his birth mother – had died of a heroin overdose.
This was revealed to be a lie – with Cassie herself arriving in Weatherfield two years ago.
Coronation Street airs on ITV1 and ITVX.
