“It is guilt and self sabotage.”

Coronation Street spoilers follow.

Coronation Street star Daniel Brocklebank has explained his character Billy Mayhew’s big revelation about Todd.

In scenes set to air on the ITV soap next week, a grief-stricken Billy causes a scene at his late husband Paul Foreman’s memorial event at the Rovers Return, where Bernie has organised a screening of Paul’s ashes being sent into space.

Billy has a drunken outburst and turns the TV off, before angrily declaring the whole event a farce and confessing to making a pass at Todd after Paul’s funeral earlier this month.

Explaining Billy’s decision to reveal his drunken pass at Todd, Brocklebank said: “It is guilt and self-sabotage. He’s so drunk, he’s not thinking clearly and he’s full of rage for himself.

“He feels very hypocritical, because obviously, as a vicar, he has helped people through grief on so many occasions, and now he’s actually fallen apart.

“He can’t deal with his own grief that he’s soiled his entire relationship with Paul because he’s made this drunken pass at Todd.

“He just loses the plot, and he nicks at the remote off the bar and turns the TV off and then basically spills it all to the whole pub!”

The actor continued: “Billy doesn’t seem to cope well with these situations you know, obviously he had a heroin addiction, he’s obviously got an addictive personality.

“He seems to turn to alcohol for comfort but can’t really handle it, for comfort. He’s knocked back a few whisky’s before he gets there, and then starts drinking really heavily during the event.”

Brockelbank went on to explain that, although Todd assures Billy that everyone is there to support him, Billy “can’t deal with the guilt of what he did.”

“Billy says, ‘Well, they wouldn’t be if they knew what kind of a person I actually was’,” he added. “So when Bernie starts the video, presses play, and they start watching, he just can’t do it.”

Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.