Coronation Street teases devastating exit twist for Aadi in emotional Dev scene

Aadi Alahan has left Coronation Street in dramatic scenes. The character has been a regular on the ITV soap since he was born on-screen alongside his twin sister Asha (Tanisha Gorey ) in 2006 but he waved goodbye to Weatherfield at the end of Friday night's episode.

Viewers of the world's longest-running soap will know that Aadi, who was played by Zennon Ditchett for a decade until Adam Hussain took over in 2019, has been embroiled in various conflicts over the last few months. Earlier this year, he was unintentionally responsible for Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) becoming a victim of spiking when he threw a house party that went wrong, and, amid their budding romance, he has lied to her about the events of that fateful night.

It comes as Aadi was entrusted with the upkeep of his dad Dev's corner shopwhen he took a break but he ran up debts of £6,000 and then staged a failed robbery with Brody Michaelis (Ryan Mulvey) to try to claim on the insurance. After all that failed, Aadi finally fessed up to Dev (Jimmi Harkishin), and his dad learned that his partner Bernie Winter (Jane Hazlegrove) had been in on the initial attempt to cover it all up as well, when she brought forward their wedding in the hopes of getting a rich relative to pay for it.

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Having been branded a 'failure' by Dev, who has owned and operated multiple Weatherfield businesses since he arrived in 1999, things came to a head for the teenager as he hit a new low. Clearly unsure what to do next, Aadi decided to drink his problems away as he ignored calls and text from Lauren, who had been hoping to meet him that day.

Eventually, he was spotted by builders Gary Windass (Mikey North) and Theo Silverton (James Cartwright). He was blocking their van and it all ended in calamity when he refused to move, as he fell and hit his head on a brick wall. Dev, desperate to find his son after he wasn't in bed after Lauren came calling for him, swooped onto the scene to see what had happened to his son, but Aadi refused any help from him whatsoever and stormed off.

Determined to know why Aadi had let her down, Lauren waited at number seven to confront him and that is when the truth started to come out. He tried to offer her a drink but she refused and when she tried to express just how 'worried' she was about him, it turned into a blazing row which ended in Aadi revealing: "It was my fault you got spiked," leaving a shocked Lauren breathless and on the verge of tears.

"I just wanted to get off my face to forget everything. You must've picked up my cup by mistake. I wanted to tell you. I thought you'd hate me and then we started to get closer," he said, and she responded: "You just kept lying and lying and lying. Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to trust someone again?" Referring to her former relationship with the evil Joel Deering (Calum Lill), whom she later murdered, she said: "You can never make it up to you, can you? Because I knew someone who used to say that to me. Joel."

Later, Amy Barlow went to address the whole drama with Aadi, who sent her away. It was Aadi's twin sister Asha who dealt with it in the end, and reminded him that he had 'brought the whole situation' on himself. In the heat of the moment, Aadi told Asha that she was a 'rubbish' paramedic before realising she had been right all along.

He confessed to Dev: "I'm the reason Lauren got spiked. I wanted to take drugs at the party. They were in my drink, and Lauren drank it by mistake." Bewildered, Dev looked at his daughter and asked why she had not intervened, before telling Aadi: "You need to leave."

Later in the evening, Aadi thanked his father for sticking up for him when it came to being pushed by Theo and Dev sat him down for a heart-to-heart. He asked him: "What happened with us? You always used to make me so proud of you. Did I not tell you enough? Is that why you're punishing me?"

Aadi admitted: "It's not always easy, trying to live up to you. You're always going on about everything you achieved. I'm not saying you never praised me but it was only when it made you look good. It was never enough to just be me." Acknowledging that things have to change, Dev revealed that he had been in touch with his cousin Vikram and has arranged for him to go and work with him in India.

Through tears, Aadi protested: "I'm not moving to India!" but Dev said he 'could not support him anymore. "You're just kicking me out?" Aadi shot back, to which Dev confessed through tears of his own: "I don't want to. But you have left me no choice."

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