Ruby makes impulsive decision after devastating death in Emmerdale | Soaps

Ruby Fox-Miligan (Beth Cordingly) recently received some news that turned her world upside down in Emmerdale when she learned that her mother Helen (Sharon Maughan) had died.

Ruby was contacted by the hospital to say that her mother wanted to see her, but unfortunately by the time she arrived it was too late and Helen had already died around 20 minutes earlier.

We know that Ruby moved away from her family after she started her relationship with Caleb (William Ash).

He wasn’t considered good enough for Ruby, a daughter of wealthy parents, so from then on Ruby cut off contact with her family and Caleb became her family, with her children Steph and Nicky (Lewis Cope) soon arriving.

But Helen’s death really shook Ruby, as she realized she had so many questions to ask her mother, and not being able to see and talk to her one last time robbed her of the chance to get any answers.

What Ruby doesn’t know, and viewers know, is that Caleb intercepted an earlier call about Helen being in the hospital and paid her a visit himself. The confrontation was difficult, with Caleb calling his mother-in-law ‘poisonous’ and accusing her of trying to pay him to leave Ruby when they were younger, an offer he refused.

He may have refused Helen’s money before, but this time he knew that some money would be useful for his business schemes and said that if she transferred £100,000 to her account he would try to get Ruby to visit him.

After Helen’s death, he received notification that the money had been transferred. Shocked by Ruby’s grief for her mother, he now lives knowing that she could find out about his visit to Helen over money, with potentially disastrous consequences for their marriage.

In the next few episodes, Ruby receives Helen’s ashes – and this extremely emotional moment leads her to make an impulsive decision about how to dispose of them.

Afterwards, she’s drowning her sorrows in the Woolpack, again upset that she never knew what was going through her mother’s mind when she asked her to visit her in hospital. Chas (Lucy Pargeter) suggests she ask the hospital staff what Helen’s last words were, in the hope that this might bring closure.

Ruby does as Chas suggests – and discovers that Helen was hoping for a deathbed reconciliation. What’s even more shocking is when she discovers that Caleb paid Helen a visit the day before.

After that, Ruby has some serious questions for her husband…

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