Coronation Street's Peter Ash has lifted the lid on how he really feels about leaving the soap. The actor's character, Paul Foreman, tragically dies on Monday (Sept 9) after losing his battle with motor neurone disease. Since being told of the storyline, Peter has known his time on soap would be coming to an end.
However, the 39-year-old says he has mixed feelings about leaving the cobbles. Opening up about his exit, he shared: "I massively thank Iain and Verity [MacLeod] for trusting me with this story," he told us. "It's a double-edged sword.
I always knew it would be an eventual exit unless we were lucky enough to find a cure [for MND] in that time...
"But I always knew it would be [his exit] and I'm just, again, grateful that they trusted me to play the storyline and allowed it to play out, there was never a 'this is when it's going to end'. I was always quite surprised when I'd ring Iain and he'd say, 'Right, this is what's happening for the next six months..
.' But it was amazing," reports Metro . Coronation Street fans are bracing themselves for an emotional rollercoaster as Paul's devastating MND storyline reaches its climax this week.
In a race against time, Billy Mayhew scrambles to be by his husband Paul's side, marking actor Peter's poignant exit from the soap after joining in 2018. Paul has been courageously battling Motor Neurone Disease, which has robbed him of his speech and motor functions over the past months. "It was absolutely emotional," Peter confessed ab.