Michelle Collins has admitted she "wasn't enjoying" EastEnders earlier in her career but it now "feels right" to be back in Albert Square after her amazing comeback from the dead as Cindy Beale. Actor Michelle left EastEnders after a second spell in the soap in 1998 after playing the iconic blonde, Cindy on and off for a decade. Her character went to prison for hiring a hitman to kill her husband, Ian and later fans learned that she’d died during childbirth.
But that all changed last year when Cindy returned despite being dead and buried, with a sensational storyline explaining her reappearance after being in a witness protection programme in June last year. On her comeback Michelle said: “It was a big decision to return to EastEnders and I wanted to go back with a good storyline. People love to hate Cindy.
She is unapologetic and behaves in a way you shouldn’t really behave, but you sometimes can’t help that when you follow your heart, not your gut and, let’s face it, how many women do that? "You should always say, ‘Never say never,’ as an actor because you never know. The first time round, I was desperate to leave EastEnders to prove I could do other things. I left when I was 33, then went back after my daughter was born – and it wasn’t the same.
I’d moved on and I wasn’t enjoying it. I’d had a taste of the outside world . It didn’t feel right, so I left again.
" She added: “Now, it feels right being back. I’m comfortable in my skin, more in the.