There was a surprise in store for EastEnders viewers on Wednesday (April 26) when Roxy Mitchell (Rita Simons) returned from the dead for a surprise appearance.
The character hasn’t been seen in the soap since the start of 2017, following her tragic death – but as her daughter Amy (Ellie Dadd) continues to struggle with self-harm, she appeared to her as a figment of her imagination during a family counselling session.
The emotional scenes saw Amy talking to her mum as she opened up about her emotions surrounding her loss.
Viewers will of course remember that Roxy perished alongside her sister Ronnie (Samantha Womack) as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Day 2017.
But just how did Roxy die? Let’s remind ourselves what happened…
How did Roxy Mitchell die in EastEnders?
Roxy and Ronnie met their tragic end just hours after Ronnie and Jack (Scott Maslen) were married.
The character had had a difficult time in the months leading up to her death, struggling with drug abuse and asking Ronnie and Jack to adopt her daughter Amy.
However, the sisters had patched up, and Roxy had plans to move to Essex with Ronnie and Jack, where they had planned to live after they were married.
Things didn’t work out as planned, however, after the pair disappeared off together during the wedding party, getting increasingly drunk as they reminisced together.
When, just moments before midnight, they discovered the hotel swimming pool, Roxy decided to jump in.
However, she suffered a cardiac arrest when she hit the water, and when she didn’t resurface, Ronnie jumped in to save her, and drowned after she was weighed down by her wedding dress.
Ronnie and Roxy’s death proved controversial, with some fans claiming to have stopped watching the soap as a result – and Rita Simons revealing that she had even been sent scripts viewers have written featuring believable ways to bring her back.
‘To this day, I will get – whether it’s tweets, whether it’s someone in the street, whether it’s someone on Instagram, whether it’s a parent of a school – not that I go to school anymore: “Why did they kill you? Why did they kill you? I stopped watching. Come back, come back. Come on. If they can do it with [Dallas character] Bobby Ewing, they could do it with you,” Simons told Radio Times.
‘I get it every day. I get scripts sent to me of ideas of how to come back from fans. Fans send me scripts that they’ve written. It has not stopped in six years.
EastEnders continues on BBC One on Thursday night at 7.30pm.
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