Can EastEnders' Linda Carter help save son Lee?

EastEnders' Lee Carter is set to finally pluck up the courage to tell his mother Linda Carter that he is suffering from depression.

The ex-soldier, played by Danny-Boy Hatchard, has been battling mental health issues and suicidal thoughts for some time.

Danny-Boy Hatchard and Kellie Bright as Linda and Lee Carter in EastEnders

 

Linda (Kellie Bright) is devastated when she hears what her son has been going through, and wants to do all she can to help him. But will he react?

Danny-Boy Hatchard and Kellie Bright as Linda and Lee Carter in EastEnders

Linda tries to offer her son advice, but is a mother’s love enough to help him through? (BBC)

 

Danny-Boy, 24, has been working with mental health charity Mind on the storyline.

He said previously: “I have spoken to the charity and their advisers to gain a better understanding of depression. I am actively involved in the direction of the way the story is going because it is such a tender subject.”

Lee’s heart-to-heart with Linda screens on the BBC One soap on Thursday October 1.

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