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Emmerdale's Zoe Henry and Mark Charnock on characters having 'traumatic' new storyline
Emmerdale actors Zoe Henry and Mark Charnock have revealed the life-changing experience their characters, Rhona Goskirk and Marlon Dingle, will go through together.The fictional couple’s lives were turned upside down when Marlon suffered a stroke just when they decided to get engaged.Rhona and Marlon were set to propose to each other when Marlon started to feel frightened and disoriented before feeling his consciousness fade.Worried about her dad, April rushes home to find him struggling to stay conscious.Mark described his character’s incident as a “distressing” and “traumatic” experience, while Zoe defined it as “a new challenge”.However, the couple does not lose hope as they are determined to overcome the “bump in the road”.Mark told Express.co.uk and other media outlets: "There’s a great deal of hope that things can only get better from where they are, there’s positivity to be had from it too.“So hopefully apart from it being distressing, traumatic for the characters, also it will inspire them to get their lives back."And hopefully it will inspire the people watching to maybe change their lifestyles a little bit in order to head this off before it happens to them because it happens to so many people."Asked about April’s emotions following her dad’s stroke, Zoe pointed out that she had also suffered the loss of her mother and that there were “a lot of things echoing for her.”She said: “The kids sometimes are way more adaptable and accepting than he gives them credit for and she’s pretty strong and she’s amazing.“But you can’t erase the fact that she’s lost her own mother not that long ago, so there’s a lot of things echoing for her.”Zoe went on to explain how Rhona coped with the traumatic experience and how her life
