HEARTBROKEN Coronation Street fans fear ‘it’s the beginning of the end’ as a legendary couple hits the rocks.
Tonight’s episode saw Carla Barlow return to Weatherfield after jetting off to Spain to try and land a deal that would save Underworld following Stephen Reid’s deceit.
Carla didn’t get the welcome back she expected when she discovered the flat was a tip, husband Peter’s son Simon sleeping on the sofa and her spouse seemingly out of sorts.
Carla soon discovered that Peter was struggling more than she realised in the wake of him knocking over and killing Stephen, despite him being a serial killer.
Carla feared he had been drinking again, and Peter confessed he had been going to more AA meetings than he had told her about but wasn’t drinking again.
The couple had a tense discussion, as Peter was upset by Carla checking her work phone while he tried to open up to her.
Meanwhile, she was furious that her husband couldn’t understand how she had to give the factory some of her attention considering how many jobs depended on it.
Things started to look up for Carla and Underworld later in the episode when they agreed a new deal with a businesswoman, but Carla admitted to Sarah Barlow that her marriage was something that she might not be able to save too.
She said: “Peter never gets over anything, it’s like a five man job trying to keep him on the straight and narrow as it is.
“I mean, hand on heart…if he did have a drink, or even if he didn’t, the weight of this, the stress..I’ve not got the energy.”
Sarah replied: “Oh Carla, but it’ll be so worth it, when you come out the other side together.”
But Carla said: “I don’t think it will, not this time.”
Her comments placed fear in the hearts of Corrie fans who love the pair together.
Taking to X – formerly Twitter – one wrote: “I love Carla so full of empathy.”
Another added: “Peter’s face when Carla said she has to think of the factor too made me cry, he just wants someone to listen to him I’m so sad for him.”
A third tweeted: “So this is the beginning of the end of Peter and Carla?”
Coronation Street airs on ITV1 and is available on ITVX.
