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Coronation Street's Shelley King admits women stop her in the street to share abuse stories
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mirror.co.ukShelley King is getting used to women stopping her in the street and confiding their harrowing stories of domestic abuse. They usually tell her what’s been happening to “a friend”, and she nods, to show she understands as she listens.
But playing abused wife Yasmeen Metcalfe in Coronation Street has taught Shelley a lot about the coping methods of victims of coercive control.
And she knows that most of the “friends” being discussed are actually the women standing in front of her. “Often people don’t admit it,” she explains. “They’ll stop me in the street and say that this has happened to a friend, but it’s quite obvious from the emotional way they speak that it’s actually happening to them. “I’ve had letters too, from people in coercive
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