Coronation Street’s Maggie Driscoll is backed into a corner, as she is forced to reveal her shameful secret. After letting slip that her late husband, Alan, was not the father of her son Ben, Maggie has no choice but to explain herself – but will Ben discover the full truth?

Friday’s (3 April) episode featured a heated showdown between the mother-son duo as they argued over Will, who has been groomed by Megan Walsh. When Maggie said that Ben hadn’t protected his son, the landlord cruelly wished that she had died instead of his father.

A furious Maggie asked why he would side with Alan over his own “flesh and blood” – implying that Ben wasn’t Alan’s biological son. Though she tried to backtrack, Ben was instantly suspicious following her choice of words.

In upcoming scenes on the ITV soap, he makes it his mission to find out the truth, and a newly-released spoiler clip from Sunday’s (5 April) instalment depicts the moment where Maggie tells all.

In the clip, which can be viewed below, Ben confronts his mother in The Rovers’ back room, questioning what she meant by “flesh and blood”. Maggie insists that she misspoke in the heat of the moment, but Ben points out that it’s not in her nature to blurt things out.

“Every single word that ever comes out of your mouth is considered,” he confidently argues, before pressing further: “So, come on. Because I’m going to keep asking until you tell me.”

Maggie changes tact, telling him that “some things are best left in the past”, but Ben pulls out his phone to call his brother Finlay. With no way out, Maggie is forced to reveal her secret – or at least enough of it to end her son’s investigation.

“Your dad, Alan – he wasn’t your real dad,” she confesses, guiltily. While Maggie ultimately tells Ben the truth about Alan, she remains determined to keep his real father’s identity under wraps.

Viewers already guessed that Ben is the product of Maggie’s past affair with Jim McDonald, which is why she has been desperate to keep the two families apart as her son grew closer with Steve, Jim’s son with Liz.

In follow-up scenes, Steve arrives at the pub, explaining that he is giving his daughter Amy some alone time with Ben’s son Ollie. Knowing that the youngsters are actually cousins, Maggie is visibly alarmed by the thought of them together.

As the Driscoll and McDonald clans come closer together, will she finally reveal their biological link, or could she find another way to intervene without having to delve into her history?