Coronation Street actress, Samia Smith is about to embark on a msaaive Corrie storyline which sees her pregnancy ending in devastation as she suffers a stillbirth.

In an interview with The Sun, Samia revealed that a lot of the inspiration for how she acted out the storyline came from her mother who once suffered the same tragedy.

“It’s the most challenging storyline I’ve ever had,” Samia told The Mirror.. “It was awful. No aspect of it is nice.

“When I confided in Mum she just looked at me and said, ‘I can’t believe it - the exact same thing happened to me 30 odd years ago.’ She told me that before my brother and I were born she’d been pregnant with a son. Sadly, he died when she was six-and-a-half months pregnant. She then had to go through the ordeal of giving birth.

“It is so painful for her even now and she finds it hard to talk about. Something like that you never get over. Because of my mum I wanted to do the scenes well, but they left me feeling exhausted and drained. I know Mum will be watching it at home, as will thousands of women who’ve been through it, so I needed to do it justice for them.”