Emmerdale's Louise Marwood: 'Chrissie may start the fire, but SHE is the victim' (VIDEO)

As Emmerdale is ripped apart by a disastrous helicopter crash, Louise Marwood says her character Chrissie Sugden is actually the victim despite starting the fire that leads to the crash!

Louise told What's on TV that she hopes the public go easy on Chrissie because, while she starts the fire, she just wanted to destroy her adulterous husband Robert's prized sports car.

Louise said: "... At the heart of everything she's really a good person, unlike Robert. Everything he does is to save himself, is to protect himself, to enable him to behave in a certain way, get away with things. Everything she does comes from the heart, to protect her family, is done with love. This is her reacting in the moment with anger and beyond grief almost for her relationship and this man she thought she loved."

Louise continued: "So she's behaved sort of quite erratically for her and it obviously has consequences because it's not something she goes around doing... It's always the nice ones who do something who really don't get away with it.

"So it's quite spectacular the fallout about what happens and I don't how she'll deal with it because she'd never have meant for anything [tragic] to happen... Not even to Robert – she just wanted to burn his car!"

Watch the interview with Emmerdale's Louise Marwood, above."]

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.