Steve and Michelle are devastated this week, after she suffers a late miscarriage and loses the couple’s baby.
Coronation Street bosses have been planning the story since last year, working closely with stillbirth and neonatal death charity Sands. Meanwhile, actress Kym Marsh, who plays Michelle, has taken the brave decision to portray her alter ego’s story just a few years after she lost her son, Archie, at a similar stage of pregnancy.
“I thought long and hard before agreeing to take on the challenge of this storyline,” she explains. “It is a cause very close to my heart, having lost my beautiful Archie at 21 weeks and five days. I talked about it with my family and friends, who were all very supportive. I felt it was an important story…
