Hollyoaks’ Nikki Sanderson slams trolls of her on-screen daughter with Down’s syndrome
Nikki revealed the two-year-old is a victim to online abuse
Actress Nikki Sanderson has revealed her on-screen daughter gets frequently trolled online for having Down’s syndrome.
Speaking to the panel on a recent episode of Loose Women, Nikki said "My daughter on the show she is phenomenal, she's beautiful, she's two.
"Her mum Alana says to me she gets some horrific stuff sent to her. She was telling me yesterday that one of the ones she got off someone was ‘you should be ashamed of your daughter, she’s disgusting’.
The soap star then angrily added “She is two, she’s TWO!”
Two-year-old Eva is a regular cast member to the Channel 4 show and plays Nikki's character, Maxine Blake's young daughter.
During her time on Loose Women, the 32-year-old also slammed trolls for mocking her relationship with boyfriend Greg Whitehurst, saying it's 'horrific'.
Nikki admitted the online abuse begun when she started dating Greg just 10 months after attending his wedding.
The Hollyoaks star said people 'presumed that I wrecked their marriage'. She told Katie Price, "Last year I got with my partner Greg. He was married not long before that. He actually got married in July 2014. His marriage came to an end through no fault of his own, and he was left heartbroken."
"It wasn’t much longer after his marriage broke down that we started dating and people, because they didn’t know his back story and didn't know what had happened, people presumed that I had broken his marriage up, that I had wrecked his life and his ex-wife's life.”
Watch her full interview below:
Nikki continues her role as Maxine in Hollyoaks on Channel 4.