Sally Carman was completely determined to do justice to Abi Franklin's PTSD storyline

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Coronation Street won the Inside Soap Awards' Best Storyline gong for Mason Radcliffe's death and Abi Franklin's post-stabbing PTSD, and Sally recalled just how determined she was to do her alter ego's mental health story justice.

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00:00Let's get started.

00:30Yeah, I guess you just think about the saddest thing that's ever happened to you and then

00:41just focus on that and go for it and it could be like your goldfish dying, it doesn't really

00:44matter as long as it sort of stirs something in you and that's just kind of what I did.

00:50I researched, yeah, yeah. I definitely researched it. I wanted to get it right. I can't just

00:55wing something like that. So many people have suffered and gone through these things that

00:59you've got to be authentic and you've got to be respectful and do the justice as much

01:04as you can.

01:12I'm really excited, especially for Owen Lloyd Fox, who actually wrote the EPS. So, yeah,

01:20he smashed it out of the bag and we got the easiest job in the world by just lending the

01:24lines and doing the story. So, yeah, it's great. Absolutely.

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