The actress – who plays Bethany Platt on the ITV soap – said she spent five weeks in a psychiatric hospital back in 2020
Corrie actress Lucy Fallon has opened up about her mental health struggles, revealing she spent five weeks in a psychiatric hospital during the first Covid lockdown in 2020.
Lucy, who plays Bethany Platt on the ITV soap, said she hit “rock bottom” and “couldn’t see a way out”. She told Johnny Seifert’s Secure the Insecure podcast: “From quite young, I’ve always struggled. I’ve always been quite insecure. 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.”
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Lucy said her family had no choice but to step in. She explained: “I ended up having to go to hospital, and it was from that point that other people were involved – my mum and my sisters and people that I’d worked with before.
“It almost felt like other people, other factors, were telling me, ‘Right, you need some serious help now. It’s gone a bit too far.’
“I really didn’t want to do it. I didn’t want to go and I even remember getting there. I really, really did not want to go in.”
Despite Lucy’s reluctance, she says she began to “feel safe” at The Priory – a mental health facility and rehab known for its celebrity guests – after a few weeks of being there.
She said: “At first, I didn’t feel like I was bad enough to be there. It almost felt like this just feels a bit alien and a bit strange, like, I don’t know why I’m here.
“After a few weeks of being there, I was like, okay. I got to grips with it. And actually after a week of being there, I liked it. I felt quite safe. I met quite a lot of people there who I sometimes still keep in contact with now.”
Lucy, who shares two children with her footballer fiancé Ryan Ledson, temporarily moved back in with her parents afterwards where she was grateful for having a “good support system” around her.
She now looks back on that time as “a completely different life”, explaining, “I feel like that was a totally different version of me. And I’ve been lucky enough to say that I did manage to get myself out of it, because I know for so many people that’s not the reality and you can stay on that level and it’s really hard to get out of feeling like that.”
Lucy returned to the cobbles in 2023. She says she’s now in a much better place.
She said: “I wouldn’t say that I wake up every morning with a spring in my step,’ she said. ‘I wake up sometimes and I’m like, I can’t be a**ed with this day.
“But then other days I wake up and I’m like, come on, let’s seize the day. Let’s go.
“Even though I’m so appreciative, I get overwhelmed. Sometimes I’ll wake up and I’ll think, oh my god, how am I supposed to look after two children all day? I’m scared, even though they’re my children.’
“But I’d say mentally, I feel very content, even though there’s days where I feel a bit s***. Generally, I feel like I’ve got myself together.”
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