EMMERDALE’S Charity Dingle has fled the village after a traumatic therapy session.
The Woolpack landlady – who is played by actress Emma Atkins in the ITV soap – is undergoing therapy after killing gangster Harry at Christmas.
Charity opened up about everything that had happened to her from her dad’s abuse, her mother’s strange disappearance and all the abuse she’d suffered.
She went into how she ended up becoming a mother twice as a child, forced into prostitution and terrorised by the police.
And the therapist knew exactly what Charity was going through.
“You are suffering from severe post traumatic stress,” the therapist told her as she broke down over it all.
She warned her that she faced a long road ahead but that she could begin to unpick everything she’d gone through and rebuild herself.
Charity agreed to return the following week but it was clear she was still struggling.
Sitting at home alone after her therapy session, Charity tried to come to terms with the battle ahead of her.
And then Mack walked in and instead of giving her space, began questioning her about how it went.
“Can we not?” she said. “I’m just all talked out. Sorry. How come you’ve come over?”
He told her: “Charity I’d really love it if we could spend more time together. No pressure I just want to feel useful and I want to help out in whatever way I can. I love you so much.”
“I love you too,” she said as Mack busied himself around the house.
Later he shouted down to her: “I’m running a bath for you. And then if you’re up for it later I wondered if you fancied coming with me to pick up Moses from school.”
But without space to recover it overwhelmed Charity and she began to pace around the cottage panicking.
In the end she grabbed her car keys and fled her home and the village.
How far will Charity get and will she find a way back to herself?
