Coronation Street star says 'goodbye my friend' as Billy and Paul's 'real ending' uncovered

Coronation Street star Daniel Brocklebank has shared the 'real ending' for Billy Mayhew and Paul Foreman following the latter's heartbreaking death.

There were tear-jerking scenes in the ITV soap on Monday night (September 9) as 17 months after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease Paul, played by Peter Ash, tragically died.

There was jeopardy for Paul's family at the end as Billy Mayhew was unaware that his husband was slipping away after a drunken night out led to him losing his phone and going on a mission to find it - and the memories contained on it - when his husband's health took a turn for the worse.

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It was Bernie Winter and Summer Spellman who were with Paul when his health took a sudden turn for the worse and was struggling to breathe, leading to the pair calling for an ambulance while Billy Mayhew was out desperately looking for his lost phone.

Back at the hospital, Bernie, Summer and Paul's sister Gemma Winter-Brown headed in to say their emotional goodbyes to Paul with Billy still trying to make it to the hospital in time.

But in a tragic turn of events, Billy didn't make it to the hospital in time to fulfil his promise of being by Paul's side when the time came, thinking he'd only managed to say he loved him one last time over the phone.

However, as viewers of the ITV soap know, Paul had already passed as Summer Spellman got Billy, who was running to the hospital after getting trapped in traffic in Frescho's car park, on the phone. Paul's mum Bernie encouraged Billy to say what he needed to Paul while Summer and Gemma watched on with