EastEnders Linda ‘hates herself and still loves Mick’ despite divorce bombshell says actress Kellie Bright
EASTENDERS Linda Carter hates herself and still loves Mick, actress Kellie Bright has insisted.
The actress – who plays alcoholic landlady Linda Carter in the BBC soap – said that the couple could still find a ay back to each other even after Linda served Mick with divorce papers in tonight’s episode.
Kellie revealed Linda still loves Mick – but she hates herself more[/caption]
She said: “Absolutely, she doesn’t not love him. I think it’s really hard when you’re in the grips of something like that to be around people who are like a mirror to you and who know you so well.
“You’re constantly being faced with their disappointment of you and it’s incredibly difficult for her to be around someone who loves her at the moment.
“She doesn’t want to be loved, she hates herself. It’s not like she doesn’t love him, she may say she doesn’t but she does.”
Linda felt pushed into divorcing Mick after she found out he was planning to sell the Queen Vic from under her to stop her drinking.
Kellie added: “She’s devastated. All she sees for her future at the moment is being cast aside, out on the street with nowhere to go – no family, no money and now no home potentially.”
She added: “I don’t think she thinks about it. All she wants to do at the moment is to just check out and switch off, and stop feeling the feelings she’s got raging around her.
“The problem is that she’s got herself into this real pattern of waking up not remembering what she’s said, where’s she been, what she’s done, feeling this sense of dread about what it could be, people telling her afterwards about her wetting herself and so on.
“In order to cope with that, she’s having a drink because she doesn’t want to think about that or deal with it, then it happens all over again, day after day.
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“She also hates what she is becoming and the fact that she’s letting everyone down.
“She knows it and is being completely irresponsible around Ollie. Those things are devastating for her, the shame and guilt and self- loathing is absolutely full to the brim.”