Lucy Fallon's Baby Daughter Hospitalised with 'Dramatic Illness'
Former Coronation Street actress Lucy Fallon has revealed she had to urgently rush her 13-month-old daughter Nancy to hospital this week with what she described as a "dramatic illness." The 30-year-old star, who is also mother to three-year-old son Sonny, shared the news with her Instagram followers on Wednesday evening.
Social Media Silence Explained
Posting a photograph of her young daughter on her Instagram Stories, Fallon wrote: "Radio silence this week from me as Nancy was admitted to hospital on Monday. She loves a dramatic illness this chick!" The actress, who played Bethany Platt in the long-running ITV soap opera, did not provide specific details about her daughter's medical condition or current status.
Fallon shares both children with her fiancé Ryan Ledson, a professional footballer for Preston North End. The couple welcomed Nancy in January 2025, and Ledson proposed to Fallon during her 30th birthday celebrations in November last year.
Revealing Past Mental Health Crisis
This family health scare comes as Fallon has recently opened up about her own significant mental health struggles, including a five-week inpatient stay at The Priory psychiatric hospital in late 2020. Speaking candidly on the Secure the Insecure podcast, the actress described reaching "absolute rock bottom" during that period.
"From quite young, I've always struggled. I've always been quite insecure," Fallon revealed. "That got worse when we went through lockdown because I left Corrie and I wasn't really getting any work."
The Blackpool-born actress left Coronation Street in March 2020 after five years on the show, coinciding with the beginning of the first COVID-19 lockdown when work opportunities became scarce. She would eventually reprise her role in 2023.
Inpatient Treatment at The Priory
Fallon described her mental state at the time as desperate, explaining: "I was just at the absolute rock bottom that I've ever, ever felt. And I really, really, really struggled. I had a really bad batch of mental health towards the end of 2020 and I ended up being in The Priory for about five weeks because my mental health was so bad."
The Priory is a private psychiatric facility in southwest London where inpatient treatment costs exceed £7,000 weekly. Notable former patients include musicians Robbie Williams and Amy Winehouse, model Kate Moss, and footballer Paul Gascoigne.
Fallon admitted the decision to check into the facility was not her own. "It almost felt like other people, other factors, were telling me, 'Right, you need some serious help now. It's gone a bit too far,'" she recalled. "I really didn't want to do it. I didn't want to go and I even remember getting there. I really, really did not want to go in."
Recovery and Adjustment Process
Initially resistant to treatment, Fallon gradually adapted to her surroundings. "At first, I didn't feel like I was bad enough to be there," she said. "After a few weeks of being there, I was like, okay. I got to grips with it. And actually after a week of being there, I liked it. I felt quite safe. I met quite a lot of people there who I sometimes still keep in contact with now."
Leaving the facility presented its own challenges. Fallon was placed on medication—which she has since discontinued—and moved back in with her parents temporarily while adjusting to normal life. "It took me a while to adjust," she reflected. "Coming out and being in the real world and just having to carry on felt strange. But I also had a really good support system around me."
Personal Tragedies and New Beginnings
Fallon's recovery journey included both personal setbacks and positive developments. In early 2022, she suffered a miscarriage that left her devastated. "I felt like: how can this thing that I thought was going to be this amazing chapter just be taken away?" she said. "I can't lie, that lasted a while. I felt like I really struggled to shake it."
The actress found solace in falling pregnant again relatively quickly, giving birth to son Sonny Jude the following year. "If that hadn't happened, we wouldn't have Sonny," she reflected. "Even though it was horrendous, it almost showed me how much I wanted that to be the next chapter in my life."
Finding Love and Stability
Meeting her now-fiancé Ryan Ledson on the celebrity dating app Raya marked a significant turning point in Fallon's life. "I would say I still, for a while, felt insecure," she admitted. "I felt like I had so much baggage with everything that had happened. It was a conversation I had with him almost straight away."
Fallon added: "I just accepted that, that was a blip in my mental health and in my own journey. I do deserve to be happy and to be in the relationship that I'm in, and I deserve the job that I've had. I've worked really hard."
Current Mental State and Motherhood
Despite her daughter's recent hospitalisation, Fallon describes herself as being in a better place mentally than ever before, though she acknowledges occasional difficult days. "I wouldn't say that I wake up every morning with a spring in my step," she said honestly. "I wake up sometimes and I'm like, I can't be a**ed with this day."
She continued: "Even though I'm so appreciative, I get overwhelmed. Sometimes I'll wake up and I'll think, oh my god, how am I supposed to look after two children all day? I'm scared, even though they're my children. But I'd say mentally, I feel very content, even though there's days where I feel a bit s***. Generally, I feel like I've got myself together."
Reflecting on her journey, Fallon concluded: "It seems like a completely different life. I feel like that was a totally different version of me. And I've been lucky enough to say that I did manage to get myself out of it, because I know for so many people that's not the reality."
