Lily spirals on Coronation Street as she blames herself for doomed Jodie’s fate

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Lily believes she’s responsible for Jodie’s death… assuming she IS dead (Picture: ITV) Does anybody miss Coronation Street uber-bitch Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown)?…

Does anybody miss Coronation Street uber-bitch Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown)? Absolutely – and they’re about to go off the rails bigtime.

Lily Platt (Grace Ashcroft Gardner) might be the only person in Weatherfield who is worried about Jodie – and with good reason.

The bunny-boiling baddie has done her best to tear the Platt family apart by stealing her half-sister Shona Platt’s (Julia Goulding) family – including gaslight her to the brink of sanity, and attempting to seduce her husband David Platt (Jack P Shepherd).

However, Jodie managed to keep Lily onside throughout her insidious plot. Because Shona and David were worried sick about their premature baby girl Harper, Lily felt low down on their list of priorities, allowing Jodie to swoop in and become the favourite aunty.

Although Lily hero-worshipped her and thought they were really close, it was merely a means to and end for Jodie. Her goal was to drive a wedge between Shona and her family, and her hormonal, neglected teenage daughter was the perfect weapon.

However, even an accomplished schemer like Jodie couldn’t keep plotting forever. Her web of lies unravelled when Bethany Platt (Lucy Fallon) discovered that Jodie’s phone was full of recordings of a baby crying, to gaslight Shona into believing she was losing her mind. To protect herself, Jodie framed Lily for the psychological torture by planting the files on her phone.

The resulting blazing row caused chaos in the Platt household, with a devastated Shona believing the lines and moving out of Number 6 while a terrified Lily was forced to do a runner from her family home.

Fortunately the truth came out thanks to Bethany. Although what wasn’t so fortunate was Jodie turning a gun on Shona and David only to be shot in the struggle.

After David span a cover story to the coppers to protect Shona, Jodie discharged herself from hospital and mysteriously disappeared.

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