Emmerdale viewers rejoiced tonight as Mandy Dingle (Lisa Riley) finally found out about the abuse perpetuated by her fiancé Paul Ashdale (Reece Dinsdale).
Paul was finally killed off on Thursday night after hiding his abuse of son Vinny (Bradley Johnson) for months.
But on Friday’s episode, it was down to Vinny’s ex-girlfriend Liv Flaherty (Isobel Steele) to reveal the reason she and Paul were in the barn when Jimmy’s (Nick Miles) van crashed into the building.
“Paul beat Vinny and put him in hospital,” Liv explained. “And he attacked me too yesterday.”
But Mandy wasn’t convinced, asking: “Has she had a bang on the head or something because she’s talking nonsense!”
Liv told Mandy about Paul’s continued gambling and how he beat Vinny to keep him quiet.
“He was over it, he was in recovery. We were getting married!” Mandy insisted. Sure that the claims were down to Liv’s concussion, she told brother Aaron (Danny Miller) “You need to get a doctor in here.”
Liv told Mandy that Paul faked his own kidnapping – and that was the last straw.
“How can you say this?” Mandy asked. “It’s not true, it’s wrong, it’s spiteful!”
And Mandy dealt the final blow with a reference to the siblings’ abusive father, shouting: “Not every man is as evil as your father!”
She accused Liv of attempting to ‘derail’ her wedding, and asked: “How could you do this to me today, today of all days?”
Viewers took to Twitter to share their relief and further predictions.
“Poor Mandy’s in classic denial right now,” one wrote.
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Another said: “Mandy, listen to Liv!!!”
And a third penned: “And the penny has dropped!!! Paul did it!!! Mandy!!!”
And when Vinny confirmed that Liv and Aaron were telling the truth later in the episode, Mandy broke down in tears.
But not before apologising for ‘ruining’ his parents’ big day.
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“I love how she only had to look at Vinny’s face to know Liv was telling the truth,” one fan said.
“Oh Mandy darling, so many tears, heartbreaking to see her face knowing that they was right,” another wrote.
But others were concerned that the hospital hadn’t picked up on Vinny’s abuse initially, as a nurse told Mandy she didn’t know what had caused his internal bleeding.
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“What I don’t get with all the beatings Vinny has taken is why the Drs that operated weren’t worried enough about his bruised and battered body to call in the police?” one viewer wrote on social media.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
