But will it be enough for her to seek help?
7-13 DECEMBER
Johnny is devastated when Ollie tells him disturbing details of Linda’s drunken behaviour.
To make matters worse, Linda gets drunk again and slings some punters out of The Vic in front of Ollie. But when Johnny confronts ger about the impact of her drinking, Linda turns on him, packs a bag and leaves for Sharon’s place.
Later, Sharon promises to help Johnny by sorting Linda out.
After a dressing down from Sharon, Linda is heading home when she has a nasty encounter with Bernie. Heading to the Minute Mart, Linda tries to buy booze but when Alfie won’t sell it to her, she just takes it and Alfie reports back to Johnny.
Later, Alfie discovers that Sharon’s place has been broken into after Linda left the door open and Sharon arrives home to find she’s been robbed!
As her behaviour continues to bring disgrace to her and pain to her loved ones, Linda has painful confrontations with Alfie and Johnny before knocking back vodka.
Coming to her rescue, Phil and Lauren offer to attend a meeting with her and Linda agrees, which leaves Johnny thrilled to hear that she wants to recover.
Returning from her honeymoon, Elaine discovers the depths that Linda has fallen to and resolves to get her daughter back on the straight and narrow.
However, after a truly shocking and devastating day, Elaine realises that she can no longer enable Linda and gives her an ultimatum.
EastEnders continues Mondays to Thursdays at 7.30pm on BBC One with first look episodes available from 6am on BBC iPlayer
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