Coronation Street has confirmed that Asha Alahan will make her emotional return to Weatherfield in December. Upon arriving home, Asha’s dad questions her about the future, but is he pushing her to do too much too soon?

Viewers know that Asha attempted to take her own life after struggling with the aftermath of a distressing encounter with a racist member of the public.

Following some helpful advice from Maggie Driscoll, Asha decided to get some help and to spend some time at the psychiatric facility, where she has been staying for a few weeks.

In this week’s scenes, Dev visits her at the psychiatric facility, where Asha tells him that she’s worried about her friends not reaching out. Back in Weatherfield, Dev calls out Summer, Nina and Amy for failing to support Asha and the trio pay her visit.

In scenes set to air on Monday, 1 December, Asha is discharged from the mental health facility after completing her residential treatment and making strong progress.

Dev arrives home with a nervous Asha in tow. When Dev suggests that she may reconsider continuing with her paramedic training, how will Asha react? Is it too early for Dev to be making a suggestion like this?

Previously speaking about Asha’s ongoing storyline, Dev actor Jimmi Harkishin opened up about what Dev is going through with his daughter.

Asked what mixture of emotions Dev is feeling throughout this story, Harkishin replied: “That sense of impotence, that sense of not being able to change, and not being able to see it coming, not being able to fix it.

“I think he’s berating himself more than anybody there, and it comes out because we always do that, don’t we? We only show our true emotions to the people that are closest to us because it’s just easier to do it that way.

“Dev goes and takes out all his frustrations, his anger, his self-doubt and recriminations with Bernie. But when he goes back to the hospital, he’s very, very gentle with his daughter, caring and apologetic, and then he walks out there, and then he’s angry and he’s crying, and then he goes back to the hospital, and his daughter never sees any of that.”