Emmerdale is set to explore the return of Priya’s eating disorder as her physical recovery triggers a relapse. We’ll see Priya, who struggled with anorexia, fall back into dangerous patterns as she grapples with her emotional torment.
“Priya is a perfectionist, and she’s so conscious of the way she looks,” explains Fiona. “Now she’s in a situation where she feels terrible, she has to eat more to heal, but she can’t move much. Priya can’t control what happened in the accident, but she can control this.”
Fiona says that she’s glad the writers are revisiting Priya’s anorexia because it shows the reality of eating disorders.
“It’s realistic and part of a pattern,” she explains. “Priya overcame it before, but it’s always there because it’s a mental illness. Before she knows…
