It’s been only months since social worker Nicola had her life turned upside down, when she learned that she was the product of a love affair between her mother, Annabel Rubinstein, and Pat Phelan – and that the man she grew up calling her father was not her biological dad! But in the midst of her turmoil, Nicola took some comfort in Pat’s assertion that he truly loved her mum, and that he was, in effect, the victim in all this.
“As ever with Phelan, the truth is far murkier than he would want anyone to know,” our Corrie source tells us. “This week, Nicola meets her mum and dad’s old neighbour, Lydia, who reveals that there was never an affair between Pat and Annabel, and certainly no kind of…
