EastEnders ‘confirms’ Bianca Jackson’s exit storyline – and it’s heartbreaking

This article contains spoilers about Wednesday (June 12)’s EastEnders, which is now available on BBC iPlayer.

Bianca Jackson’s (Patsy Palmer) time back on Albert Square has been rocky to say the least, but it looks like EastEnders fans might now have seen the last of her.

The character made the drunken decision to leave Walford after a showdown in The Vic with her sister Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy) and her partner Reiss Colwell (Jonny Freeman) over their money secret.

Things between the siblings have been tense since she found out Reiss’ had been stealing money from his wife Debbie, who is in a coma, to fund his and Sonia’s IVF treatment.

Bianca Jackson recently returned to Walford

While Sonia was initially horrified when Bianca told her of Reiss’ actions, she has since come around and even encouraged her partner to take more from Debbie’s account for another round of treatment.

During Thursday’s episode of the BBC soap, Sonia issued a disgusted Bianca with an ultimatum – either get behind her and Reiss, or get out of her house.

A dejected Bianca later confided in best mate Kat Mitchell (Jessie Wallace) about what was going on, also opening up for the first time about a recent mental health episode, which happened after Whitney Dean’s (Shona McGarty) visit to Milton Keynes.

Bianca shared that after an angry outburst involving punching an oven and some burnt fish fingers, she ended up in A&E, and was subsequently diagnosed with depression.

Having resisted medication and group therapy, Kat vowed to support Bianca, and when Kat later bumped into Sonia, she tried to persuade Sonia to go easy on her sister.

However, Sonia was angry to realise that Bianca had blabbed to Kat about Reiss’ actions, and confronted Bianca in The Vic.

Tension between the siblings soon boiled over, with a drunk Bianca jumping behind the bar to reveal Sonia and Reiss’ shameful secret to the whole pub.

With the revelation stunning the punters into silence, landlady Elaine Peacock (Harriet Thorpe) soon ordered her out of her boozer, with Bianca heading across the Square and jumping in her taco van.

Sonia warned her she was too drunk to drive and could end up killing herself or someone else, but then told her sister she could either come inside and talk about their dispute, or revert to type and “run away when things get hard”.

Setting eyes on Reiss, an emotional Bianca revved up the engine and sped off into the night.

Will she be OK? And is this really the last we’ve seen of the Walford legend?