CORONATION Street’s Beverley Callard has revealed a nightmare operation on her hip left her fearing she’d be unable to walk again.
The actress, 63, left soap fans confused when she suddenly disappeared six months ago.
But now she’s revealed she’s been recovering from a standard hip operation that went disastrously wrong.
She told the Mirror: “I have been gone because it has been the worst six months of my life.
“I have been in the most excruciating pain you can imagine – like teeth grinding inside my hip.
“But worse than that was the mental torture of thinking ‘is this the end for me?”
The aftermath of the surgery has been so traumatic and painful that Beverley feared her career was over.
“A huge part of me thought I’d never be able to return to Coronation Street – that I wouldn’t even walk again,” she said.
