Emmerdale’s Lisa Riley has responded to the fake news she is pregnant, days on from opening up about how she wasn’t able to become a mum.
Lisa, who is 49, is best known for playing Mandy Dingle in the ITV soap. The legendary actress has been with her partner Al since 2014.
The star doesn’t have any children and recently, Lisa opened up about her journey with IVF and how she eventually came to the conclusion that becoming a mother wasn’t ‘meant to be’.
During Tuesday’s episode of Loose Women, Lisa spoke honestly about prioritising her career for many years, and how when she decided to try and fall pregnant with Al, she realised she wasn’t able to.
‘I’ve spoken a lot, about me personally, being a catholic, it drummed into us, you don’t use contraception and you don’t have sex before marriage’, she explained.
‘That was in my head a lot, then later in life, career, I did chose my career, apps weren’t available then to look at your cycle, I waited… waited… found the right person in Al, when it came to the time of trying, I couldn’t fall pregnant.
‘I would have given everything in my life to have had a child.’
Detailing more about her experiences with IVF, Lisa added: ‘I wasn’t that lucky, I tried everything until the point where Al turned to me and he literally said “You have to stop all the IVF treatment because it’s diminishing you, it’s taking your personality away, you’re trying to hard”.
‘Sometimes in life, it’s not meant to be. I have to sit with you girls here today knowing that.
‘However I am very lucky, because I am a family unit. My nephew and my niece, they are a big part of me.’
Lisa went on to tell the Loose Women panel that she is happy with her life now, but she also has to ‘find peace’ with the fact becoming a mum didn’t work out for her.
‘Yeah I am happy, but also, I have to be happy. I’m happy when I see all my friends getting pregnant at work at Emmerdale.
‘I’m over moon for them, but there is always going to be that little, little, scuff in the back of my head going “It didn’t quite work out for me”, and I have to find peace in that.
‘Thank God I’ve got Al, because you do that together.’
Lisa recently took to her Instagram account to respond to deeply upsetting rumours that she’s pregnant. The star shared a video explaining ‘fake news and clickbait’ has caused her to receive congratulatory messages about getting ready to become a mum.
The actress began: ‘This is no one’s fault apart from fake news, clickbait and oh my God what world do we live in? I am 100% not pregnant. I have been inundated with congratulations today. And do you know what makes that even more sick? The fact that only this week on Loose Women I was talking about the fact that me and Al, my other half, we couldn’t get pregnant.’
‘We tried IVF and it didn’t work. But still the very strange people out there feel they need to clickbait and put out fake news that I am pregnant. Well I’m not. So do you know what, to clickbait and AI and all this nonsense this world is becoming. There, that’s yours.’, she said before sticking up her middle finger.
Lisa finished the message by saying: ‘So clarification, I’m not pregnant. I think if I was pregnant I might have told people. Just food for thought, when you read something, go to the person’s social media, have a look if they’ve said anything. If they haven’t, it’s probably fake news.’
Lisa’s Emmerdale character Mandy Dingle is currently away from the village helping Tina Dingle.
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