emerdale Stars Paul Elaine and Susan cookson have addressed Ella’s attack on Wendy in the latest episode August 22

the latest installment of the itv1 soap saw Ella flip on Nurse Wendy during a vulnerable Moment by physically attacking her

Ella had previously been confronted by the brother of the young girl she killed decades earlier Ella attacked Wendy because

she felt there was no way out Paul Elaine said of these harrowing scenes Wendy’s kind words about people caring for her struck Ella hard she finds it difficult to believe
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that could ever be the case she’s frustrated that this new place she now calls home will always know her real identity there is no hiding only in prison that bizarrely is her safe place and she knows exactly what to do to get back there Susan cookson addressed Wendy’s reaction to the unprovoked attack she was completely shocked as she was gen trying to help her after seeing and hearing what she had just gone through Wendy has tried to take Ella’s side knowing how difficult her life must have been since getting out of the young
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offenders un/ prison she went on Wendy was not in any way prepared for what was about to happen probably thinking quite the opposite and would have been believing she was calming Ella down and supporting her Paula suggested that the root of the attack comes from Ella’s reluctance to accept that she cannot change her troubled past she she’s had a lot of Rehabilitation in prison with trained professionals helping her but when she gets into the outside world all that is constantly put to the test especially when the focus is put on her
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like her birthday she can find situations daunting and overbearing the actor added I hope for her she can move on but the trauma she has experienced will forever be a lasting scar it will take the right people around her to help support her to enable her to have a happy future tonight’s episode was a traumatic won for