There was a story in Daily Star Sunday (by way of Digital Spy) saying that Peter Barlow is to start drinking again in an upcoming storyline.
According to the Daily Star Sunday, Peter will go looking for Carla during next week's episodes, after she flees Weatherfield because of the Underworld roof collapse in which someone will die.
Interestingly, Chris Gascoyne told our blogger Martin Leay in an interview last year that if Peter staretd drinking again, he'd end up killing himself by drinking himself to death.
Martin wrote back then: By his calculations, Peter has “already fallen off the wagon twice” so seriously that he nearly died. Chris Gascoyne reasons: “they always say that there are only three and he’s not got another one in him to recover from”. Therefore, if the writers wanted to revisit Peter’s alcoholism, perhaps because of something going wrong in his life… and it coincided with Chris deciding he was ready to leave for good – then he feels the story they’d have to do is where Peter “just basically drinks himself to death”.
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