EastEnders star Alice Haig, best known for playing Vicki Fowler in the BBC One soap, appeared on ITV breakfast show Good Morning Britain on Thursday (October 9) morning

EastEnders star Alice Haig has spoken out about her character’s future and admitted “It’s a really difficult time”.

During Thursday’s (October 9) episode of the BBC hit soap, viewers will see Alice’s character Vicki Fowler get violently attacked and left for dead by her stepson Joel Marshall.

Ahead of the sinister twist in the horrifying masculinity storyline, Alice appeared on ITV hit breakfast show Good Morning Britain alongside hosts Kate Garraway and Ed Balls and addressed the importance of the plot.

The actress started off by saying: “We have the attack tonight (October 9) and of course, really importantly we are going to see it from the victim’s point of view.

“There have been amazing dramas made about this subject already, you know Adolescence, fantastic piece of drama but focus very much on the boy and his family.”

Speaking about how the moment affects her character, she continued: “We’re going to see Vicki having the wind completely knocked out of her sails and her confidence in men completely shot. She starts to look around and see misogyny everywhere and I think that is really difficult for her.”

The star added: “Also I feel like this episode tonight is all about talking to our children and that feels like the most important thing. Not attacking them, not berating them, not lecturing them but talking to our children about these things.”

The special episode will see Joel, who is played by actor Max Murray sink to new lows. He was revealed to have shown an extreme adult video in school after hacking into the teacher’s laptop.

Joel went on to attack Amy Mitchell (Ellie Dadd) after she confronted him about leering at her throughout his sordid actions.

Amy ran home to tell her dad what had happened and it launched a row as Jack Branning (Scott Maslen), Denise Fox (Diane Parish) and Priya Nadra-Hart (Sophie Khan Levy) confronted Joel’s dad Ross Marshall (Alex Walkinshaw) about what his son had done

As usual Ross defended his son, before dragging him home and confronting him. But as Joel wound him up, Vicki sent Ross out before he did something he would regret – though she would later come to regret that.

Later Vicki thought she could get through to Joel and tried talking to him. Matching him and counteracting all his misogynistic points, Vicki tore into Joel.

“You know what you can take your toxic masculinity and go and live with your mum,” Vicki said. She kept pushing him as he raged about hating women like Vicki and his teacher.

Joel then punched her to the floor and as Vicki tried to get up, Joel mocked her and then filmed her struggle as he carried on beating her. The thug then left the house, leaving Vicki lifeless and bloodied on the floor.