'Coronation Street' Paula Lane: 'Gail is a mother figure for Kylie'

Coronation Street star Paula Lane has teased the surprise heart-to-heart coming up for Kylie Platt and mum-in-law Gail, admitting that her character accepts the interfering matriarch as a "mother figure" for the first time.

Next week's episodes of the ITV1 soap see Gail urge Kylie to fight for her son Max after it emerges that the youngster is being put up for adoption.

Kylie hears Gail's (Helen Worth) plea after husband David (Jack P Shepherd) reacts furiously when he realises that his partner may not want Max back.

Lane told Inside Soap of the upcoming scenes: "It's the only occasion, apart from the first time Max was taken away, that Kylie's ever broken down. But she does when she's talking about things with Gail.

"I think it's probably because Gail's a mother figure. Kylie's never had that. So when Gail actually says, 'You've not got a maternal bone in your body and you're always angry', it hits home. No-one's ever taken the time to talk to her about it before.

"From the start, she could never really offer [Max] anything. Kylie was only 16 and living on the streets when she had him. She was on a downward spiral, so it was easier to totally cut off from him than risk rebuilding their bond and then losing him again."

Towards the end of next week, Kylie and David begin the fight to regain custody of Max and soon discover that they are in with a good chance.

Lane added: "Kylie's old fears are still very much there. But after she's had her big heart-to-heart with Gail, Kylie's reassured that she's at least going to have the support of her husband and his mother this time round. It gives her the confidence to think that things might actually work out."

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