Coronation Street star Tina O’Brien has admitted her alter ego Sarah Barlow is a “nightmare” in the aftermath of Monday’s dramatic gender reveal party.
And frankly, we’re not surprised! Because the one thing Sarah has been doing since this whole Adam/Damon business got started is making some VERY bad decisions!
Now her latest questionable choice – to let her Uncle Stephen get involved in her lies – has well and truly come back to bite her and the truth is out!
But as Adam ends his marriage and Sarah’s life is left in tatters – are they over for good? Tina O’Brien isn’t so sure…
Tina O’Brien on the big reveal
Adam knows he’s not the father of the baby, despite Sarah (and Stephen’s!) attempts to keep the truth from him. And after the dramatic reveal at the party where the balloon read ‘It’s Damon’s’ rather than whether the baby was a boy or a girl, everyone else knows too!
So did Sarah really think she was going to get away with such a huge lie?
“I’m not sure she did think she was going to get away with,” Tina O’Brien, who plays Sarah, tells us. “She hoped she’d get away with it! But it got out of hand. There were a couple of times she was ready and willing to tell Adam the truth and then because of Stephen’s interference it became harder to open up.”
And she says that Sarah’s actions are baffling!
“I think because she desperately wanted the baby and she didn’t want to have a termination she thought she could deal with the guilt,” she says thoughtfully. “Personally it’s not something I could deal with for my whole life. Something like that must eat away at you. Obviously something like that is never going to go well.”
Total humiliation
Viewers will have seen the horror on Sarah’s face in Monday’s episode when she realised the truth was out in such a public and humiliating fashion.
So how is she feeling now?
“Ashamed, devastated, embarrassed, hurt, scared, upset,” Tina lists. “Feeling sick to her stomach!”
Sarah’s no stranger to keeping huge secrets, but the way this one was revealed seems to have totally taken her by surprise.
“She had absolutely no idea whatsoever,” Tina laughs. “’”

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