[Smithy]

Coronation Street character Carla Connor will reportedly be left fighting for her life after being attacked by her boyfriend.

The factory owner, played by Alison King, will be subjected to a physical and sexual assault by Frank Foster after he suspects she is cheating on him with Peter Barlow.

Carla will consider leaving Frank prior to the attack, but feels she owes him after he invested in her business and takes the blame for a car accident she is responsible for, The People reports.

"What Frank does to Carla will make the way she suffered at the hands of her psycho ex-husband Tony seem innocent," a source said. "Carla totally ignores all the early warning signs of Frank's twisted personality, even the fact that he has been accused of attempted rape.

"But she ends up suffering terribly. The scenes will be, without question, the most violent seen on the cobbles. The bosses are hoping that they draw in huge audiences in the coming months, but they must tread carefully to make sure this is handled well.

"The producers have spoken with domestic abuse charities and will make a point of advertising their helplines. They know that this storyline will distress people."

The plot will be a prominent storyline over the summer and air after the 9pm watershed during a week of special episodes.

Tracy Barlow will offer to give Frank a positive character reference in court, while Peter's marriage to Leanne suffers when details of his friendship with Carla come out.

Frank, played by Andrew Lancel, has already attacked Maria Connor (Samia Smith).

Should make for exciting viewing

[joeysteele]

She will play this brilliantly. I really like the character Carla in Corrie, she has good humour in a lot of her lines too.

[Scarlett.]

Another psycho?

['Conor]

-is gonna start watching Corrie again-

haven't seen it in 6 months !

[Jords]

Gonna be good!

[CarlaConnor]

It will be brillant and Ali will do a brilliant job! But omg! poor Carla!!!!!

[Marsh.]

Is this the Ronnie of Corrie? The former has lost countless children, now Carla's gonna get with countless villains, murderers and rapists.

[Scarlett.]

Okay, second thoughts, this plot hasnt popped out of thin air, we saw signs of Frank being a bastard months ago, we all brushed off Maria's claims - we were wrong, Frank is a bastard. I trust this storyline will be well acted. I just hope the 9pm move isn't so we have graphic scenes

[Smithy]

whatchu mean we

-always disliked him-

['Conor]

-hasnt seen Corrie in 6 months-

so what happened to Maria?

[Redway]

Same old storylines...

[Scarlett.]

Corrie's only ever done one rape storyline ^ so hardly 'same old storylines'

[Patrick]

..wonders why this couldn't be posted in the discussion thread like EE storylines are.

[Smithy]

coz not everyone reads the discussion threads

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Patrick

..wonders why this couldn't be posted in the discussion thread like EE storylines are.

because there's a soap section, so if we all posted in the discussion threads there'd be no point in the section.

[Patrick]

Oh yeah - true.

[Lewis.]

Told...

[bbfan1991]

Noo poor Carla. At least this will give Alison King more screentime, she is so underrated in Corrie IMO.

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by Lewis.

Told...

[Visage]

Sounds right up my street, can't wait.

Originally Posted by Redway

Same old storylines...

No, no no Frank hasn't beaten Carla up before, so this is a new storyline....

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by bbfan1991

Noo poor Carla. At least this will give Alison King more screentime, she is so underrated in Corrie IMO.

Very underrated, her character is one of the best and strongest in Corrie.

[Kerry]

Poor cow. Everyone either drops dead around her or tries to kill her

[bbfan1991]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

Very underrated, her character is one of the best and strongest in Corrie.

Indeed and although Carla is strong and fiesty she is also vulnerable and a broken woman deep down, makes me want to root for her to sort her issues out anymore.

A strong person like her can suffer at the hands of a vile bully etc it's happened before...

[bbfan1991]

At the moment I wouldn't be surprised if they decide to make this story funny too.

[CarlaConnor]

Corrie: Leannes less than happy when Peter defends Carla in the pub.
Corrie: Leanne catches Peter with Carla in the bistro.
Corrie: Peter turns his back on Carla for the sake of his marriage.

All of this airs in 2 weeks.

So obviously Peter and Carla are friends again at this point, but he turns his back on her for the sake of his marriage and urges frank to look after her so, I think when frank does what he does to Carla, Peter will blame himself for not being there for her. But before Frank hurts Carla I also think that Peter will actually have issues with Carla and Frank being together and become quite protective of her which could possibly lead to an affair like the rumours were saying?