'Like Corrie's Daisy, I faced an acid attack – it wasn't just my life that changed'
27.03.2023 - 18:31
/ ok.co.uk
Coronation Street is set for harrowing scenes tonight when stalker Justin Rutherford returns to the streets of Weatherfield to cruelly attack Daisy Midgeley with acid on her wedding day to Daniel Osbourne. After waking up with a bloodshot eye and discovering that her transport has been stolen, viewers will see Daisy (Charlotte Jordan) become convinced that her wedding day is cursed. But things go from bad to worse when she arrives at her wedding venue where she is met by her obsessed admirer Justin (Andrew Still).
Justin advances on Daisy holding a glass full of clear liquid, telling Daisy that no one will want her after this, as he throws acid at her. For Adele Bellis, 31, from Norfolk, it’s a storyline that brings back painful memories of her own horrifying experiences. Adele’s ear melted off when her attacker Jason Harrison threw sulphuric acid over her In Lowestoft, Suffolk, back in 2014.
Here, she reflects on her own experience… “The Coronation Street storyline this week will be a difficult watch. At the back of my mind I wonder if it could give the wrong people ideas but my hope is that viewers will be shown how to act in a horrific situation like this.The most important thing for me is that in future episodes, we also see the lasting effects of an acid attack, if so, I endorse it 100 per cent,” she says. Harrison was acting on the orders of Adele’s controlling ex-boyfriend, Anthony Riley, who’d become obsessed with destroying her face because he didn’t want another man to find her attractive.
He threatened Harrison until he agreed to carry the corrosive liquid in a Lucozade bottle and douse Adele as she stood at a bus stop. Part of her face, neck and arm were also burned. Adele says she was pre-warned about the
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