EastEnders Linda Carter finally bins the booze next week as she helps Sharon look after her baby

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EASTENDERS’ Linda Carter will finally turn her back on booze for good next week as she helps Sharon look after her newborn baby.

The alcoholic landlady, played by Kellie Bright, has been fighting addiction for months, and after Friday’s boat tragedy that saw her nearly lose her life, has decided to do everything she can to beat it.

EastEnders’ Linda Carter will finally turn her back on booze for good next week as she helps Sharon look after her newborn baby

Relationships with her nearest and dearest are on the mend, and things take another positive step when son Ollie comes second in a school fancy dress competition wearing an outfit handmade by Linda.

It motivates her to carry on with her recovery and she bins her booze collection with the help of Tina.

And in a bid to keep herself busy and forget about drink, she offers her help to grieving pal Sharon, who is struggling with her newborn in the wake of son Denny’s death.

Earlier this month Kellie told how Linda Carter’s mother-in-law Shirley would become her saviour.

She told DigitalSpy: “Her relationship with Shirley is a really interesting one. They don’t like each other but they do love each other.

“Actually Shirley says the things that Linda needs to hear and she makes her listen.

“Sometimes, I think you can take things from people like that in that moment that you can’t hear from people that are closer to you. So, yes, I do think Shirley is key in trying to get through to Linda.”

Earlier this month Kellie told how Linda Carter’s mother-in-law Shirley would become her saviour

Kellie threw herself wholeheartedly into the alcoholism storyline, even filming herself after getting drunk so she could study her behaviour.

She told Fabulous magazine:”Its been really challenging because playing drunk is one of the hardest things to do.

But Ive also loved it and its been like getting a new character, a whole different side to this person who Ive played all this time.

“Booze turns Linda into someone who is almost unrecognisable, which is what I wanted I wanted it to be hard to see her like that. And then also to see the flip-side the next day the shame, the embarrassment, the mortification.

Addiction is an illness and, for Linda, drinking is about escape. She wants the world to f**king stop. She wants to press pause on her life and erase all of this pain. She doesnt want to feel any of it.