Emmerdale‘s Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) carried out her plan to abort her baby with Tom King (James Chase) leaving fans of the ITV soap fearful for her safety. She made the monumental decision due to the abuse she has suffered at his hands since they married in February.
Realising she couldn’t bring a child into such an environment she secretly arranged for a termination. She was given two tablets to take over two days. Knowing that Tom is tracking her movements viewers saw her drive to the hospital car park to take the second pill tonight before calling Tom.
When he arrived home she broke the news to him telling him she had suffered a miscarriage. “I went to the loo and I was bleeding so I got in the car and went straight to the hospital…I’m so sorry. They told me that I’ve had a miscarriage,” she sobbed.
Tom seemed both hurt and furious protesting: “They could be wrong. I mean loads of women bleed at the beginning…” “They’ve not got it wrong. I’ve lost the baby. It’s gone,” she assured him.
For a moment it looked like he could lash out again. “How dare they let you leave like that after tauma. That is negligent,” he raged at Belle.
He seemed to calm down eventually and told Belle they could try again. Clearly taken aback by the suggestion she told him she wasn’t ready, leading him to rage again.
He told her that was normal as they were grieving but was adamant they would try again.
Frustrated he took to his car and found a pay and display sticker which he traced back to the hospital.
Belle had dropped her parking ticket from the clinic on the floor of the car and viewers believe it is only a matter of time before Tom gets to the bottom of what really happened and lashes out at Belle.
Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter they voiced their concerns.
One user wrote: “Tom is going to hit the roof when he discovers Belle has had an abortion #Emmerdale.”
Another tweeted: “Oh Belle – telling him it’s a miscarriage is a mistake. Cain needs to find out – immediately.”
A third lamented: “I’m so scared for Belle now #Emmerdale.”
And a fourth added: “Belle hasn’t calculated that Tom probably knows more about pregnancy than she does #emmerdale.”
Emmerdale is on ITV weekdays at 7.30pm.