Coronation Street aired devastating acid attack scenes for Ryan Connor last night.
And now actor Ryan Prescott has revealed the road to recovery is long – and there’s more heartache to come for his character.
Appearing on This Morning today (Tuesday March 28) Ryan spoke to hosts Holly Willoughby and Alison Hammond about what’s next as Ryan comes to terms with his life-changing injuries.
Coronation Street: Ryan devastatingly injured
Ryan was getting ready to drive Daisy Midgeley to her wedding during Monday night’s Coronation Street (March 27) when her stalker, Justin Rutherford, attacked.
As Justin inched closer to Daisy clutching a glass of clear liquid, he told her no one would want her after he enacted his revenge. He then threw acid at her.
Although some of the liquid splashed onto Daisy’s chest, it was Ryan, who jumped in front of her to protect her, that took the full force. His face and chest were doused in acid.
Daisy acted quickly to get him under cold water and called an ambulance. But the future for Ryan looks very different to the one he was imagining.
Ryan Prescott on This Morning
Speaking on today’s This Morning actor Ryan Prescott opened up about how Ryan processes what’s happened to him. And he revealed there was more heartache ahead.
“It’s one of those things, when you go through a situation of real stress and a massive shift in your life, Ryan especially tries to reach out and grasp on to everything he can in order to deny his new reality,” he said.
“That is mostly being his relationships. One being with Alya Nazir and also his opportunity go to Ibiza with new love interest, Crystal. He tries to cling on to those things.”
He then added how heartbreakingly tough it’s going to be: “I think there’s a natural tendency to push the people away you love the most when you’re in such a vulnerable state, which there’s an element of as well.”
Ryan also added Coronation Street are not going to shy away from showing how long a process his recovery will be.
“That’s one thing we wanted to include: some kind of longevity, within parameters of soap, obviously it moves very quickly. But we wanted to have some longevity included within the aftermath.
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