Coronation Street actress Lisa George reveals she could go BLIND after devastating health diagnosis
CORONATION Street star Lisa George fears that she could go blind after she was diagnosed with a devastating eye condition.
The actress has NAION - non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy - which causes sudden vision loss in one eye.
Lisa, 51, has played Beth Sutherland on the ITV soap for 12 years.
Coronation Steet bosses have rushed to support Lisa and have taken measures to help her, including printing off scripts in bigger font and have even changed scenes to make things easier.
"I always think there are people far worse off than you, and I'm just grateful I can still see but we don't know what could happen in the future," she told MailOnline.
Lisa had an accident in 2016 when she was gardening.
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She was hit in her right eye with a heavy knot at the end of a piece of rope.
A few days later she was unable to see out of her damaged eye, and she was later told by doctors that she had lost part of the sight at the bottom of the eye.
She was hit with the news that her sight would never regain her full sight.
Over the next six years Lisa desperately saw specialists and doctors in the hopes of healing her eye.
"I just wasn't getting any explanation as to what had happened. I had scans, dye put into my eyeball, but the doctors were split as to whether it was the trauma from the rope or something else that had caused the haemorrhage at the back of my eye," she said.
Things took a turn in 2022 when the vision in her left eye started to distort.
She was driving home after celebrating former Corrie co-star Katie McGlynn's birthday when she suddenly struggled to see.
Lisa said that she "couldn't tell whether the lorries in front of her were merging" as she drove along the M6.