Corrie's Amanda Barrie believes she would've been fired if she came out as bisexual in 80s

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Former Coronation Street actress Amanda Barrie feared she would have lost her job if she’d come out as bisexual earlier on during her time on the soap, she has revealed.

After joining the ITV soap in 1981 playing character Alma Sedgewick, the 86 year old waited until two years after she left Coronation Street in 2003 to address her bisexuality, believing before then acknowledging it could have harmed her career.

Amanda recently opened up about her ordeal leading up to coming out, being left constantly on edge as rumours about her being bisexual continued throughout her marriage to theatre director and actor Robin Hunter.

Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter. You can sign up at the top of the page.The couple wed in 1967 before splitting in the mid-80s, although they remained legally married up until Robin’s death from emphysema in 2004. “Every week I would come up to the office.They'd go, ‘You're coming out.’ ‘Am I?’ ‘Yeah, they've got this thing on you,’” Amanda spoke on the Coronation Street podcast. “I spent a fortune on solicitors because believe me if that had happened to me at that time they would not have kept me in Coronation Street and I will stand by that. “Not because of them [the producers] but because of people, who shall be nameless, who would've said, ‘I'm not working with her.’” Amanda spoke previously about her fears of being fired from Coronation Street as a result of coming out and how she had issues with her own shame in accepting her bisexuality, when she appeared on Loose Women in 2016.