Charlie Brooks has revealed that she is making her Eastenders comeback for the sake of her three year old daughter.

Charlie is a single mum to daughter Kiki, though she is still very much in contact with the childs father, Tony Turman.

“I had a little girl I wanted to support,” Brooks told the Sunday Mirror. “And it’s nice to have my independence.”

“I was keen to find out what had happened to Janine,” she continued. “She’s so dynamic and such a bitch. But I’ve always felt there was also a little girl buried somewhere inside and I wanted to explore this more vulnerable side of her.”

Brooks added that she wouldn’t be able to return to or screens without her former partner Tony.

“Tony is a fantastic dad. We often put Kiki to bed together. I get lots of help from him, and his mum. We even go on holiday together,” she explained. “It’s just that we no longer sleep together. But we’ll always be a family. He’s round my house all the time. He lives less than a mile away.”