Coronation Street ‘s Summer Spellman will struggle to come to terms with her diabetes diagnosis in the coming weeks and it’s not going to be good for her health.
In recent episodes of the ITV soap, Summer was rushed to hospital after collapsing and was told she has type one diabetes.
Summer struggled to take in the news that she’ll need to manage her condition with injections, and actress Harriet Bibby has revealed that she’s pretty clueless as to how serious the situation is.
Speaking to press including The Mirror, Harriet said: “A lot of people have heard of diabetes but I actually I don’t think a lot of people know what it actually is and what actually happens to your body, because I know I didn’t when we started discussing this storyline.
“I go, ‘alright she gets diabetes but what actually is it?’ So when she’s diagnosed you have this huge hit of, ‘oh right I’ve got this lifelong condition that I’m gonna have to deal with, but I don’t even know what that is or what I have to do to control it’, so yeah I think she’s a bit scared,” Harriet admitted.
“I think finding out you have a lifelong condition that you’re gonna have to deal with, you don’t wrap your head around it for a little while,” she continued.
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“We’ve spoken to Diabetes UK while we’ve been in the run up to this storyline and I think that’s what a lot of people struggle with when they’re diagnosed, is… ‘actually I’m going to have to live with this for a long time’, and I don’t think Summer does really realise that.
“She relies on Billy to help her with her medication and I don’t think, as a teenager, she likes being told what to do.”
Harriet then teased: “I think we see a little bit of that teenage rebellion and difficulty with coming to terms with having to maintain doing your medication and things like that, it’s tricky.”
The 22-year-old actress also shed some light on why she thinks Summer has fallen ill in the first place.
“She starts losing weight and feeling faint and everything,” Harriet explained.
“She’s a hard worker and she really wants to do well at school and I think a lot of young people struggle with this, especially at the minute during what’s happened over the last year.
“You’re told to concentrate and do well and you have to do well in this or else it will have a domino effect on what you do for the rest of your life.
“And I think Summer takes that to heart and just gets tunnel vision of work and actually doesn’t realise that she’s not very well,” she added.
Coronation Street airs Mondays and Wednesdays 7.30pm and 8.30pm with an hour long episode at 7.30 on Fridays on ITV
Originally from https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/corrie-spoiler-summer-spellman-struggles-24322989