Coronation Street has confirmed what's really wrong with Joseph Brown after stepmum Gemma Winter-Brown was suspected of faking his ill health.
It's been months now since Gemma was stopped seeing her children unattended after accidentally posining the youngster. It came after Gemma had been convinced that her stepson is really ill, despite doctors saying that wasn't the case and having a word with Chesney about his wife with him seemingly putting down her concerns down to her own mental health struggles.
However, Joseph continued to tell Gemma he wasn't well ;leaving her sceptica, due to being aware she overreacted the last time.
But in scenes aired back in November, when Chesney was called out of work to pick him up from school, he berated Gemma for not realising he was ill.
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