Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Janus Womack)

[tammyy2j]

Thanks for bravely sharing your experience, Deputydog.

+ 1 thanks

[tammyy2j]

Looks like next week Glenda leaves the cat of the bag than she knew Archie was abusing Ronnie what a great mother

[Siobhan]

Looks like next week Glenda leaves the cat of the bag than she knew Archie was abusing Ronnie what a great mother

I had a feeling she knew.. it was the look on her face

[tammyy2j]

^ Me too

[sean slater]

Looks like next week Glenda leaves the cat of the bag than she knew Archie was abusing Ronnie what a great mother

Yeh, it happens though. I dont blame Ronnie for feeling hurt and betrayed. However we dont yet know exactly went on with Glenda and Archie back then.

[Siobhan]

Yeh, it happens though. I dont blame Ronnie for feeling hurt and betrayed. However we dont yet know exactly went on with Glenda and Archie back then.

I could give a rats what happened to her.. as a mother, my daughter would come first.. that is what been a mother is about, protecting your children and that includes from your husband, brother etc.. she suspected something and yet still walked out and left her kids in that place.. How did she know that he wouldn't have moved on the Roxy.. it was only Ronnie who protected her by staying with her night after night.. was a 12 year old suppose to do that NO!! the mother should have.. Glenda disgusts me

[tammyy2j]

When she said Archie "has moved on to her" she sounded like she was so jealous her 13 year old daughter was now Archie's favourite and not her that was so bad

[sean slater]

I could give a rats what happened to her.. as a mother, my daughter would come first.. that is what been a mother is about, protecting your children and that includes from your husband, brother etc.. she suspected something and yet still walked out and left her kids in that place.. How did she know that he wouldn't have moved on the Roxy.. it was only Ronnie who protected her by staying with her night after night.. was a 12 year old suppose to do that NO!! the mother should have.. Glenda disgusts me

Yeh I know it is really bad. All Im saying is people make mistakes, and you can tell she regrets it deeply. And she didn't actually know what was going on, most likely she tried to blank it out cos she was so scared to face reality.

I have personal experience with this situation, or well my family do, and it effects you a lot. And its not only the mother and daughter either, it effects the whole family. But a mother and daughters bond is precious, and if it is possible that Ronnie could forgive her, then I think she should try, cos you only get one mother. And there are so many happy times they could have together now. Glenda wasnt a good mother but maybe she could make a good grandmother. Maybe that could be a way of making it up for all the lost years and hurt she caused.

[lizann]

Samantha Womack has admitted that EastEnders' Ronnie Branning is not "normal", due to the traumatic events she has been through.

Womack is currently at the centre of the soap's cot death and baby-swap storyline, which has so far prompted over 3,400 complaints from viewers. However, speaking to Soaplife, the actress said that "at the moment" she is playing the Albert Square club owner "doing normal".

"But I hope there is going to be something," she said. "You can't just steal somebody's baby. But Ronnie's not a normal person. She's been through so much with her dad, Danielle, the miscarriage... She wouldn't react in the same way as somebody who has had a happy life."

Once again discussing the effect the plot has had on her, she added: "As a mother myself it was so hard to play. When Ronnie found her baby dead I had to stop filming for a bit as I couldn't stop crying. It was too much."

[alan45]

EASTENDERS star Samantha Womack has quit the show over its
heavily-criticised cot death storyline.

Sam, 38, was horrified by heartbreaking scenes in the BBC1 soap where
her character Ronnie Branning lost her baby James - then swapped him
for Kat Moon's newborn lad Tommy.

Samantha decided to quit EastEnders after viewing its shock cot death
storyline "as a mother first and an actress second", it emerged last
night.



Samantha, who has two children, gave producers a handwritten letter of
resignation last November when she first received the script for the
harrowing New Year's Eve episode.

A fellow cast member said show chiefs offered more money and uplifting
plots to persuade her to stay on as Ronnie Branning.

But the star - famed as Samantha Janus before her 2009 marriage to
actor Mark Womack - said she would stick to her principles and will
leave the BBC1 soap in May.

Channel bosses have been bombarded with nearly 3,500 complaints this
week over the scenes, in which Ronnie lost her baby James.


Viewers were upset by the use of a deeply sensitive issue for
entertainment - and further outraged by a twist in the plot that saw
Ronnie take Kat Moon's baby and replace it in the cot with her dead
child.

(c) The Sun