I had no idea that Stephanie was kind of...
 

a hot mess.
Like, in terms off her career; I didn't know she got fired from Hollyoaks for not turning up/turning up late. :shrug:

She got fired for turning up drunk, she mentioned it in her VT

"I'm a teenager who likes a drink"

No, love, you're a 23 year old lush who lost her job for turning up drunk. :nono:

Sinead O'Connor remains one of the most enigmatic and complex characters in soap history.

I'm not a massive Hollyoaks fan. I'm far too old. Sadly I know too much about the cast as they are often in media and showbiz news and gossip.

However, from what has been revealed, she apparently she often came in drunk, late and hung over, smelly, partying the night before work and not knowing her lines. She frequently kept colleagues waiting due to her lateness so scenes had to be delayed or last minute rewritten. There's even footage of her playing boozy drinking games in staff canteen. She thought she was untouchable due to award nominations, praise and popularity and central importance of Sinead character, plus her celebrity high profile in the northern celeb scene (the Hollyoaks PR team do gently encourage the cast to be in tabloids). She's part of some North West D list celeb crew with some gay / bi bloke called Jnxy. He appeared on TV show First Dates.

There was a gossip blind item from late 2014/ early last year about a young UK soap actress who often came on set either late and/ or reeking of alcohol and forgetting lines which began to p*ss off cast and crew who had to wait two or three hours to do a scene. I suspect it was her.

Several cast members such as the actors who played John Paul, Nancy Fox, Esther and Darren hated her. In fact the John Paul actor James Sutton has barely disguised his disdain for her.