Coronation Street star Paddy Bever has revealed that his character Max will find it difficult to adapt to life back in Weatherfield when he is released from the Secure Training Centre.
Having been radicalised by a right-wing gang, Max was sentenced to time in the STC earlier this year after being found to have incited someone else - via is his online hate videos - into stabbing Alya (Sair Khan).
In scenes to be shown next week, Max is told that he has been granted an early release from the STC but he initially refuses to leave, barricading himself in his room until David (Jack P Shepherd) arrives to talk him round.
"Max doesn't do well alone and now he's found this routine, and this life in prison in the Security Training Centre, he's scared to go out into the outside world where nothing is stable and secure and routine," explained Bever.
"In there he knows exactly what time and when he's going to do things. This also helps because he struggles with ADHD so to suddenly be thrown back out into the world where anything can happen is daunting. Of course he has had a really difficult time there, he's been bullied, but sadly that's all Max knows, he was bullied on the outside too."
One of the first things Max does when he finally returns to the street is pen an apology letter to Alya, although his words do not go down as he intended them to.
"When he comes out he knows he's going to be singled out, he's on his own and he's there to be made an example of, particularly by Alya," Bever continued. "He apologises to Alya in a letter and although he feels that his intentions are pure there's a lot of shame in that. Also with his family, to be someone that they're ashamed of is beyond humiliating, it's devastating for Max.
"Alya is a victim of immense trauma and I think for Max to expect that a written apology is going to change that I think is quite indicative of how young he is and how unaware he is of the right action is take, which is what he's been advised to do by the police, which is stay away.
"But I don't think he can grasp that, he is so driven to do the right thing morally that he ends up doing the wrong thing."
Coronation Street continues Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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