ITV Emmerdale slapped with trigger warning over ‘distressing’ themes as missing teenager returns

In heartbreaking scenes, the 15-year-old mentioned she was sorry to her child earlier than Tuesday’s episode ended.

Followers had been devastated by the scenes, and forward of the upcoming episode on Wednesday, ITV has shared a message on its streaming web site in addition to social media pages, warning viewers in regards to the episode’s content material.

The ITV web site reads: “With scenes of medical misery and themes of self-harm and abuse.”

In the meantime, Mark Charnock, who performs April’s dad Marlon Dingle, just lately detailed how April’s return to the village is not as joyous accurately.

Emmerdale’s April Windsor storyline has seen the present slapped with a warning

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“It is not easy; it is nearly being like lacking in your home. The outdated them has gone,” he defined.

Chatting with The Mirror, he continued: “They’re all treading on eggshells – it isn’t simply Marlon – and I used to be saying earlier than, it is like they have been looking this human haystack and now they have the needle again, it is only a completely different being, with completely different reference factors and a unique angle.”

Followers are actually theorising who the daddy of April’s child might have been, along with her ultimate scenes earlier than she disappeared seeing her leaping into the again of a automobile, however no additional clues as to the place she has been or who she has been with.

It is not the primary time the cleaning soap has aired distressing scenes, however it appears ITV could have uncared for to supply sufficient of a warning in a storyline from final 12 months which sparked floods of complaints.

Emmerdale is focusing a plot involving lacking teenager April

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Final 12 months, the cleaning soap was met with an outraged response to a storyline involving the abuse of a beloved pet canine, Piper.

in August, many determined it was the ultimate straw and selected to “boycott” the long-running programme over a distressing flip the plot took.

The sickening plot concerned the evil character Tom King (James Chase) and Piper, the pet canine of his estranged spouse Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper).

King was controlling and manipulative in direction of his ex and typically took to harming the poor animal in a sick try to harm her.

The character determined to hurt the canine as soon as once more just lately in an try and insert himself again into his ex’s life.

After he intentionally ran over Piper, viewers had been left much more disturbed when he later administered a deadly injection to the pooch, prompting Dingle to bid a ultimate and heartbreaking farewell to her canine.

Moments from April’s heartbreaking story 💔

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Responding to the brutal story, many took to social media to confess they might be taking a break from the cleaning soap.

On X, a number of had been in settlement that the plot had gone too far, together with one one that fumed: “I perceive they wish to spotlight abuse, however they’ve concerned Piper TOO MANY occasions now.

“We all know it isn’t actual, however it’s arduous sufficient to observe. The story ought to have been carried out when Belle got here to her senses, that is changing into an animal abuse storyline #Emmerdale.” (sic)