Louisa ‘My storyline made pregnancy harder'

Actress Louisa Lytton had admitted that filming the heartbreaking miscarriage scenes for her EastEnders character Ruby Allen left her worried that she could suffer the same experience.
The 32-year-old star is set to welcome her first baby with fiancé Ben Bhanvra later this year and filmed the difficult scenes during the early weeks of her pregnancy.
“It was weird because naturally, that [miscarriage] was always at the forefront of my mind, so it was quite hard to take myself away from my storyline and be at home and enjoy being pregnant,” she shared.
“It became difficult to differentiate between work and home in my head. I hadn’t had the reassurance of a scan, so at times I was almost trying to protect myself by acting like it wasn’t really happening. It’s natural to have those worries in the first 12 weeks, but the storyline heightened how I was feeling anyway,” she said.
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But Louisa insisted that the hard-hitting storyline was important for her to do, especially as her character Ruby was later diagnosed with ...