Click here<\/a> to sign up for more Coronation Street updates in our newsletter<\/p>\nBut as Bernie and Gemma face testing, unbeknownst to them, Kit has already been seeking medical help due to concerns about his own health and last week, Kit was seen being told he had stage 3 breast cancer, which had already spread to his lymph nodes.<\/p>\n
Speaking about how Bernie is handling Celeste’s dying bombshell, Jane said: “She\u2019s not particularly floored by the news of Celeste herself, as there\u2019s been no contact between them for years and years, there\u2019s no love lost there. However, the revelation that breast cancer could be genetic was a massive shock.<\/p>\n
“She\u2019s definitely floored by that, though she\u2019s handling it with her typical “glass half full” approach. Bernie is a big believer in the power of denial and positive thinking; she knows she very probably has the gene, but she isn’t going to let that consume her.”<\/p>\n
According to spoilers for next week’s episodes of Corrie, Kit and Bernie’s husband, Dev Alahan, and Kit accompany Bernie to her appointment, having undergone testing for the hereditary BRCA gene mutation.<\/p>\n
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Kit heads to the hospital for Bernie’s appointment(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n
In the waiting room, she tells them she knows in her heart of hearts that her test will prove negative. Kit loses his temper and storms off. Bernie catches up with Kit and berates him for his negative attitude.<\/p>\n
But Kit will eventually come clean to Bernie, of which Jane has said: “She is absolutely devastated. She can’t believe he didn’t tell her what he was going through all that time. But then, she draws a parallel to her own secretive gene. She realises they have things in common because they are both very good at hiding and avoiding, and perhaps turning the occasional white lie into the truth. She just cannot accept that this is happening to him.”<\/p>\n
She continued: “The minute he says he has it, she knows she must be a carrier, because it can’t skip a generation. Her next fear is for Gemma, the quads, and Brody. She\u2019s terrified for her children. It\u2019s a lot of turmoil; she\u2019s having nightmares. She\u2019s feeling that ‘mother lion’ instinct, she\u2019s said, ‘If I could take it, I would,’ which echoes things she said to Paul [Foreman]. It\u2019s a path that\u2019s well-travelled for her.”<\/p>\n
When asked what’s ahead for Bernie, Jane added: “She has some massive decisions to make. For a woman pushing 60, deciding to lose her breasts is huge, especially because she and Dev are such a physical couple. But she has about a 70% chance of developing breast cancer, and she wants to be around for her grandkids and the quads.<\/p>\n
“She’s determined to stick around. She\u2019s not sure what the psychological effects of the surgery will be, but she has to make a decision and she says, ‘I\u2019m still going to be me.’ It\u2019s going to be a long road, but she\u2019s not going anywhere.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernie Winter-Alahan faces her family’s health discovery in upcoming Corrie scenes Bernie Winter at the hospital in Coronation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2525,96,347,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-771368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-coronation-street","tag-entertainment","tag-itv","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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