Emmerdale legend opens up on ‘challenging’ storyline ‘never been done in UK’

Emmerdale star Zoe Henry has revealed she was "surprised" and "excited" when she first learned about her latest gripping storyline.

Her character Rhona Goskirk recently learned that her ex-husband Gus Malcolms (Alan McKenna) and his now-wife Lucy (Charlotte Asprey) went behind her back and used her frozen embryos without her permission.

Earlier this year, they arrived in the village to ask Rhona if they could use the embryos they stored years ago so that he could have a baby with Lucy after cancer treatment robbed him of being able to conceive naturally but after some consideration Rhona decided against the idea.

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However, without Rhona knowing, Gus stole her passport and forged her permission with his ex only discovering the truth last month after Rhona's husband-husband Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) spotted Gus and Lucy at the hospital. After initially keeping quiet, Marlon eventually told Rhona that Lucy was pregnant before she went and confronted the couple after a failed meet-up with Gus.

Lucy later went into labour and tragically died giving birth to a baby girl, who has been named Ivy. Since then, unbeknownst to Gus, Rhona was paying visits to baby Ivy until he caught out her and her mum, Mary Goskirk (Louise Jameson) as he headed to take Ivy home.

Rhona has since let Mary try and help a grieving Gus with Ivy as she struggles to ignore her biological child. Emmerdale spoilers have confirmed that Marlon reaches breaking point as Gus and baby Ivy spend Christmas with the family.

Opening up on the storyline, Zoe told Daily Star and other press: "I thought it was a miracle considering she had her womb removed five years ago. I was shocked, surprised and excited because I always like a challenge and I think it is a challenging storyline.

"One of the biggest parts of the story that shocked me the most was to learn that even though Rhona is the biological mother – so her DNA – because she didn't carry and birth the child, she has no legal right which is the British law which is interesting and creates quite a lot of challenges and I think it makes for a very interesting storyline."

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She continued: "My understanding, from what I know storyline-wise, this hasn't happened in the UK so they're being advised by their legal team as they're writing it because it's such an unusual situation and how do you draw on that when there is nobody really to speak to?

"I was talking to my husband Jeff [Hordley – who plays Cain Dingle], my husband, the other day about the only way I can try and liken it to something I've been through, it sounds so absurd but my daughter is nearly 19 now but when she was just born we went to a car showroom. How boring, it was Jeff, he wanted to get and a new car and Violet was tiny, she was only about six weeks old and she was in this car seat being carried along by me and this woman came along and was like, 'Oh my God, your baby is lovely. Can I show the girls in the office?'

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"And she picked up the car seat and walked off and I was like, 'Oh my God!' I don't know what I thought she was going to do but it wasn't that and Jeff said I was walking up and down past the door like a caged tiger waiting for my baby to come back out and I guess that's the only experience I can draw on where that feeling of knowing your baby, something you are connected to – and that's what Rhona wants, to hold her and look after her.

"Her instinct is so strong, even though she didn't carry this child, even though it buried in her past 15 years ago. So you can't really research it I suppose. I'm utterly shocked by the fact this is the law in this country but I guess there's reasons for it."

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