“I felt that to go on a journey with Mick, who doesn’t open up properly to anyone, and feels shame and all that stuff, to have it end tragically, that would have opened debate and got the nation talking,” he added of Mick, who had previously struggled with anxiety and depression in a storyline that revealed the character had been abused as a child in the care system.
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