Amanda Barrie believed her sexuality could cost her job on Coronation Street

Amanda Barrie believed she'd be fired from Coronation Street if bosses found out about her sexualitySource: Good Morning Britain

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00:00No, it was because, well, actually, going back, in Corrie,

00:05what happened was I'd only been in it about a week and a half

00:09and somebody shopped me to the press.

00:12Ah. Somebody I should have known better,

00:15but I never kept my life from anybody.

00:20All my friends know everything, everybody knew everything.

00:22Right, so you were free amongst your friends.

00:24Yes.

00:25It's just the public, as it were, as an actress.

00:28Yeah, and also, there was this...

00:31I think people thought it was catching.

00:34You know, if you dealt with anybody who happened to be not quite

00:38straight down the middle, you know, they, oh, we might catch that.

00:41You were sort of pushed away, really, and whispered about in corners

00:47and all those things.

00:48And TV executives wouldn't have wanted it to be...

00:50They would not. I swear to God, and I know I've said this,

00:53and I can't back it up, and I can't...

00:55I know that I would have been sat from Coronation Street, almost.

01:00They would have got...

01:01You couldn't have said it would have been that person that did it or that.

01:06It would have been a general, oh, we don't have anything to do with that,

01:08darling. No, no.

01:09So when you came out, what then happened?

01:12What kind of reaction did you get?

01:14Well, I expected to be stoned in the streets.

01:19I thought, they'll stone me, a little of the end of me.

01:23I got a lot of hugs, actually, and it was never mentioned,

01:28never brought up, just taken, accepted.

01:33I don't know what...

01:34What was I in such a state about, because it was just...

01:38It was just, oh, I see.

01:41Although I think it's taken, after that, lots and lots more years

01:45before you really believe that.

01:47Oh, yeah.