Natalie Gumede has revealed she broke down after filming her many violent 'Coronation Street' scenes.
Earlier this year, Gumede left her role as Kirsty Soames on the long-running ITV soap and has admitting that when filming scenes with Alan Halsall - who plays her victim Tyrone Dobbs - the domestic violence roleplay dealt a huge impact to her.
She told The Sun newspaper: "It was a privilege to be in Corrie and to be trusted with such a challenging storyline but it left me completely physically exhausted. The problem with playing all of those violent scenes was that my body didn't know why I was shouting and crying -- it didn't know it was fake.
"My mind could switch off from what I had been doing but the exhaustion my body felt was as intense as if I had gone through a real trauma. I'd come off set shaking and at times I did break down and cry out of the sheer exhaustion, effort and frustration and everything else I was feeling."
Natalie - who is competing on the new series of 'Strictly Come Dancing' - struggled to keep up with her gruelling storyline and feels her exit from the ITV soap came at the perfect time.
She added: "I lived five minutes from the studio and I'd drive in to work because I was so tired, work a 12-hour day, then go home and learn my lines for the next day. I was lucky that the storyline ran its course when it did because the abuse was never sustainable."
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