With our Denise Fox’s upcoming leukaemia storyline in Eastenders, let’s remember how shit her life has been so far. This woman has suffered more than Jesus.
•abusive marriage to Libby’s dad Owen, who kidnapped and abused her
•being abused by religious murderer Lucas, locking Denise in a basement for months on end, telling everyone she’d died
•Denise having her own funeral
•Denise thinking Patrick was her father when actually he wasn’t
•being a murder suspect of Lucy Beale
•Denise becoming an alcoholic and ending up homeless
•Denise eating from a bin because she refused to claim Universal Credit
•Denise laughing maniacally after stealing and cooking some pasta from the minute-mart
•Failing her GCSEs (but then timely passing when UK students get their results)
•having sex with Phil
•Accidentally being involved and witness to a murder where her necklace nearly got her imprisoned
•Having a mental breakdown after the murder and being found in a forest
•being sectioned
•being coaxed and targeted into potentially having an affair
•now being diagnosed with leukaemia