DEPARTING Emmerdale actress Daisy Campbell has opened up about her last scenes on the soap, as she confesses that she ‘couldn’t stop crying’, as her character quits Wetherby.
Last month it was confirmed that Campbell will leave the ITV soap after 13 years of playing the role of Amelia.
Recently her character has romantically linked to the evil abuser, Tom King, as she has become embroiled in his machinations, helping inflict revenge on his estranged wife, Belle Dingle.
Now the 21-year-old actress will leave on the high of a memorable exit, amid the downfall of Tom King when the abuser finally gets his comeuppance.
But in an interview with Inside Soap magazine, Campbell said that the filming those last scenes was draining.
She said: “I was crying a lot, and that was draining. I couldn’t believe it was happening, it came around so quickly. But it’s also probably one of the most memorable things I’ve filmed. I love the way Amelia leaves. I left those final scenes feeling happy with what we’ve done. Amelia exits putting herself first, and finally doing what’s right for her and Esther.”
As the scenes are due to be aired just before Christmast, fortunately it seems that the door has been left open for Daisy to return in the future, as her character is not being killed off.
But in a candid interview with The Mirror, Daisy admitted that it wasn’t her decision to leave the soap, having been a part of the Dales-based drama since she was seven years old.
She said: “It wasn’t my choice to leave Emmerdale and it was a shock at first. Being in Emmerdale is all I have ever known. “I’ve spent the whole of my childhood growing up in the soap and it felt daunting.”
But then TV bosses took her aside and explained that for the moment her character her plateaued.
She said: Once they explained, I totally got it. Amelia isn’t part of the Dingles, her dad has left, [her child’s father] Samson has gone now and she doesn’t have any family.
There is nowhere to take Amelia and I understand that. I feel incredibly lucky to have been in the soap for 13 years and to have been handed so many opportunities at such a young age.”
The actress said she confided in just three of her co-stars, as she came to terms with her uncertain future.
She revealed that friends, Rosie Bentham, Katie Hill, and Jack Downham were left devastated, but provided much needed succour behind the scenes.
“They were upset for me but so supportive. I didn’t tell the rest of the cast my news initially as I wanted the time to process everything. I needed time to grieve the part of Amelia,” she explained.
“I had worried so much about how I was going to tell people I was going and now I know I shouldn’t have! They were all brilliant.”
And Daisy added that she feels grateful that the door is open for her return, unlike other soapstars who are killed off for good.
She said: “”I am pleased the door is being left open. But I can’t say too much about how she leaves.”
