EastEnders star Lorna Fitzgerald has teased that her character Abi Branning's dark side is set to continue, with some big drama coming up around Max's trial.
Viewers recently saw Abi turn on her dad Max as she told the police about his antics on the night Lucy Beale died, in order to get her boyfriend Ben Mitchell off the hook.
Abi's behaviour has become much darker over the last year, and Fitzgerald confirmed that there is still a lot more to come from her.
She told Inside Soap: "The dark side of Abi is set to continue. There is some really good stuff coming up with Max's murder trial, and you'll see that Abi really isn't as nice as she used to be.
"She is embracing her new role as an honorary Mitchell, and she loves it."
Fitzgerald also admitted that she has received a backlash since Abi reported Max to the police, but insisted that her alter ego's nasty streak has always been there.
She said: "When bosses first told me [about reporting Max], I thought, 'Maybe this won't be too bad and I can still look kind of sweet'. But then I got the scripts and I was like, 'No, there is nothing sweet about this at all'.
"To be fair, I think that side of her has always been there. People from her own family have left her and since she moved in with the Mitchells she has jumped on their bandwagon.
"You wouldn't believe the amount of hate I have had for dobbing in poor Max! It is quite funny that Abi is saying and doing all these mean things when she couldn't look more like an angel in her bird-print blouses."
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