Lou Michaelis left Coronation Street last night (Wednesday, July 23), but fans aren’t happy with the decision to let her go.
Only contracted for around six months, Farrel Hegarty departed from her role on the soap.
Her final scenes saw Lou Michaelis say goodbye to her kids as she faced a potentially long prison stint.
Lou Michaelis’ prison exit in Coronation Street
Last night on the cobbles, Lou Michaelis requested to see her kids after pleading guilty to assaulting Gary Windass.
Sally did some persuading and managed to get all three kids, including Brody, to visit their mum at the prison.
Lou then told Sally to do her a favour, with Sally then telling her that she couldn’t get the money to help pay her legal fees.
Lou explained that she knew this and this wasn’t the favour she wanted. She’d come to accept that she was looking at a decent stint inside and asked Sally not to bring the kids to see her anymore.
She wanted them to have good memories of her instead of ones of her in prison.
Lou then stood up and hugged Brody, Joanie and Shanice and said her goodbyes to them.
Fans beg for soap to ‘bring back’ Lou despite exit
Despite Lou’s exit scenes having just aired, Corrie viewers have headed online to call for the ITV soap to ‘bring back’ the character already.
They think she had potential for so much more and shouldn’t have been written out.
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