Maggie Driscoll's accidental slip about Ben's paternity and the death of her husband Alan, who fell down stairs during an argument, have come to light, multiple reports indicate. These disclosures emerge as her 16-year-old grandson Will was groomed by his older athletics coach Megan Walsh, who has reported Maggie to the police for assault. Megan Walsh claimed the assault caused a miscarriage, but later revealed to a therapist she had an abortion some time ago, sources said.
Maggie is now being blackmailed by Ben's ex Melanie, who knows the truth about Ben's paternity from Ben's brother, according to multiple reports. Ben learns that Alan, the man he thought was his father, knew he wasn't Ben's dad and still stuck by Maggie, and he will be left 'absolutely devastated' in the fallout to his son Will's grooming ordeal, as described by sources. According to Daily Mirror - Main, Aaron McCusker described that Ben is stunned and livid, worsened by his inability to confront Alan, and he has a huge argument with Maggie before turning to drink.
Maggie is a woman of action. I mean, there are matters with the police over the grooming of the grandson, but I think she feels that the law moves at a very slow pace, and there’s rules that she does not have to follow. They also have to be really careful of how they approach any situation whereas Maggie's more of a blunt instrument. She just thinks, ‘look, I'm going to sort it out, I'll find her. I'll warn her off’.
Maggie's fate is yet to be determined, with a recent flashforward scene teasing she could be killed off in an upcoming murder twist, multiple reports indicate. According to Daily Mirror - Main, Pauline McLynn described that Maggie's plan to get pregnant Megan Walsh out of the way could land her in trouble with the police, and she denies the assault accusation, dismissing it as nonsense. Pauline McLynn also noted that Maggie and Megan are alike in their determination and are both brilliant liars. It remains unknown whether Ben will find out his real father is former character Jim McDonald, what the legal consequences for Maggie will be regarding the assault accusation, or if Maggie will be killed off in the upcoming murder twist.
She obviously denies it. She dismisses it as kind of nonsense, a waste of everyone's time to be complaining about this. A little bit of rough and tumble, things escalated a little, let's get on with it. You know? She’s not a woman who backs down easily.
I think to be honest with you, she's met her match very much in Megan, who will stop at nothing to get what she wants and is a brilliant liar like Maggie is. They're quite well matched like that. So it's really wonderful to see two women from opposite sides of an argument having a proper go at one another. And of course, solidifying Maggie's absolute total loyalty to family and she will do pretty much anything to keep it intact or safe.
You've already admitted that you love her. And looking at you now, I can see that that's true. And... it might be hard to believe, but I know what it's like to fall in love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with.
You have no idea what kind of man he was and here you are taking his side over mine - your own flesh and blood!
He's dead, and I'm alive. And I'm sorry if you don't like that, but that's just the way it is. You were being horrible to me and you got me all confused. Now look what you've done! You say I make things worse. Well, would wishing me dead make anything better?
Ben and Maggie are having a row and in the heat of the argument, Maggie says something that just doesn’t make sense to Ben. Maggie tries to backtrack and pretends she didn’t know what she was saying but Ben won’t let it go. It’s digging at him, why did she say that, and he just needles at her till eventually she says right here’s the truth. Maggie’s also being blackmailed by Ben's ex Melanie who knows the truth from Ben’s brother who witnessed things, and is using this to try to force Maggie to convince Ben to let Will go live with her. Eventually it all just gets too much for Maggie and she makes the decision to tell Ben herself. Then the truth comes tumbling out.
He’s stunned and he’s also livid, made worse by the fact he can’t go back and talk to the man who he always thought was his dad because he’s dead. He also finds out that Alan knew he wasn’t Ben’s dad and still stuck by Maggie and that endears him to Alan even more. He has a huge argument with Maggie then he goes straight out to the bar and gets stuck into the whiskeys.
Let’s be honest he’s forgiven his mum for quite a lot already! He threw her out of the house on Christmas Day, then let her back in. He sits back 50% of the time and lets her get away with how she treats Eva and he does realise that she was a single mother and sacrificed a lot to bring him and Fin up. But maybe it will go a different way this time, I think it will take a while to get over this but time’s a healer so I hope in the end they will be alright.
He’s absolutely gutted, he’s been through a stage of blaming himself, maybe he’s been