Coronation Street legend Beverley Callard is battling to walk again after a routine hip operation left her fearing she would be in a wheelchair for life.
The 63-year-old star today reveals the secret agony she has been through after her sudden disappearance from the soap left millions of fans confused.
And Bev – whose character Liz McDonald had been due to make a big cobbles exit this summer after 30 years – tells how she is suing the hospital that carried out the op.
After a second opinion from another doctor, she believes the minor keyhole surgery, which led to a full hip replacement, should never have taken place. “I have been gone because it has been the worst six months of my life,” says the actress who was left so incapacitated she
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