EASTENDERS’ Dotty Cotton will experience another difficult setback in upcoming scenes, as her desperate attempts to help her mum Sandy go awry.
After an 11-year absence, Sandy Gibson reappeared in Walford in October and immediately caused havoc for her daughter, having had a drugs relapse.
After Sandy overdosed on heroin in Albert Square, Dotty vowed to help her mum get clean again, no matter what.
She has since put Sandy up in a bedsit and has been secretly supplying her with a limited number of drugs in order to wean her off them.
But things are starting to get very complicated for Dotty – and her lies are beginning to mount up.
With Dotty also maintaining the ruse that Terry ‘Rocky’ Cant is really Sonia Fowler’s long-lost dad so that she can scam Sonia – when in reality he is Dotty’s uncle Thomas Cotton.
Following Rocky’s shock heart attack last week, Sonia decides to put him on a strict exercise plan in order to boost his health.
When she sees Dotty acting differently, Sonia starts to become suspicious and, later on, she and Rocky both spot Dotty.
Rocky makes an excuse to leave Sonia and follows Dotty, realising that she is meeting up with a drug dealer.
When he later sees Dotty with the drug dealer again, he is forced to step in and help her out when she is short of money.
However, Peter Beale happens to spot Rocky paying the drug dealer.
Rocky is adamant that this is the last time that Dotty should buy drugs for Sandy, warning her to get her mum into a rehab centre instead.
But before Dotty can consider the idea, Sandy steals all the drugs that she has bought from her and does a runner.
It remains to be seen whether Dotty will be able to track her mum down again, but she will also have other worries on her mind in the form of the letter that Rocky wrote before his heart attack.
After Rocky told her that he had written a confession about his true motives to Sonia and his love interest, Kathy Beale, Dotty raced to find and destroy the letter.
However, she was left horrified to find that the kitchen had been cleaned up and the letter was gone.
EastEnders airs these scenes on Tuesday, December 14 at 8.15pm and Thursday, December 16 at 8.35pm on BBC One.
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