Emmerdale’s Sarah Sugden received devastating news on Monday’s episode

Emmerdale’s Sarah Sugden received a devastating update on Monday’s episode after thinking she was pregnant.

In recent episodes, Sarah took a pregnancy test following her whirlwind on-off romance with Jacob Gallagher, where the pregnancy test read positive.

After confiding in grandmother Charity Dingle, Sarah prepared to tell Jacob the news but instead he dumped her on the spot as he grieves the death of his mother Leyla Harding following the limousine crash.

On Monday night, which is available to watch on ITV X, Charity took Sarah to the doctors amid her pregnancy news, where Manpreet Sharma ran further tests to check her pregnancy and how far along she might be.

However, in a devastating twist, Manpreet delivered the news that Sarah wasn’t pregnant. The doctor said her medication could have reacted with the result or she might have read the results wrong.

A crushed Sarah admitted: “I’m so young, you know, probably too young to have a baby right? I know the chances of me getting pregnant were always low but I just thought I must have been” to which Manpreet said she might try again when the “time is right”.

However, Sarah then snapped: “Time? Oh like I’ve got decades to decide! Sorry, Manpreet, I don’t usually let it get to me but it’s just a lot. I just always hoped I’d have my own little family one day and I’m just going to have to accept maybe I won’t.”

Longtime soap watchers will be aware of Sarah’s medical past and health battles but for new viewers, here’s a refresher…

Sarah is the daughter of Debbie Dingle and Andy Sugden and she has been living with her grandmother Charity since her mother and father left the village.

Back in 2011, it was revealed that Sarah was suffering from a rare genetic disease Fanconi anaemia and needed a bone marrow transplant to save her life. However, in another heartbreaking twist, things got even worse when Sarah began to fast develop leukaemia.

After discovering they weren’t a match for Sarah, Debbie and Andy decided to have another child in hope that the baby could be a match. After falling pregnant, the worried parents learnt that their baby Jack was a match and the doctors were able to undergo the transplant for Sarah when he was born.

However, sadly, a few years later Sarah was diagnosed with throat cancer and had to undergo treatment. Yet her health issues didn’t end there and in recent years Sarah was diagnosed with heart failure due to severe rare side effects from her chemotherapy and she underwent a heart transplant.

To this day, Sarah has to continue to take her health very seriously as she still takes medication and her family is very protective over her.

Emmerdale airs weeknights at 7:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX, with an hour-long episode on Thursdays.