Linda drunkenly attacks Mick
HER FURY CAN’T BE CONTAINED...
Obliterated Linda launches a savage, wine-fuelled attack on husband Mick this week, as the landlady’s paranoia consumes her.
Linda’s convinced that Mick and Shirley are plotting against her, even though they are both doing everything they can to help her. But although she agrees to go to an addiction support group, Linda’s soon reaching for the bottle again, and when Mick catches her, all hell breaks loose…
“Poor Mick ends up covered in wine and being accused of plotting against Linda,” shares our Albert Square source. “She makes a terrible mess, wrecks some of Ollie’s drawings and goes ballistic at Mick. She’s genuinely scary – it’s as if she’s been possessed.”
The attack comes in the wake of Linda growing more and more unbalanced. She kicks off at the beginning of the week, after her bank card is declined and she realises that Mick has put a halt on the funds she can access. Returning home, Linda sinks a lorry load of booze, and when Chantelle arrives to drop off Ollie, she’s shocked at the state she finds her friend in. Linda is mortified at her own behaviour, and devastated that Ollie saw her in such a condition, but worse is to come. Fuelled by drink and self-hatred, Linda slides into despair and puts Ollie in a life-threatening situation...
“The Carter family has been worried about Linda caring for Ollie in her current situation, but these fears really hit them after what she does – the youngster ends up in terrible danger,” explains our informant. “This marks a real change in how they view Linda’s problems.”
While show bosses are remaining tight-lipped on the terrible incident, the shame of what she’s done only seems to send Linda even further down a destructive path.
The whole situation blows up later in the week, when Linda misunderstands a conversation she overhears between Mick and Shirley. Fearful and hurt, this is the moment she lashes out at Mick and soaks him with red wine. And in the aftermath of the outburst,
Mick makes a decision that changes everything...
Linda is genuinely scary – it’s as if she’s been possessed…”