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A former star of the long-running Coronation Street TV soap has admitted she was "terrified" at the effect coming out would have on her career. Amanda Barrie as Alma Baldwin in Coro St. Amanda Barrie, who starred as feisty Alma Baldwin in the series, says only her close friends on the series Helen Worth, Sue Nicholls and Barbara Knox knew she was bisexual. She came out in an autobiography in 2003 after "being hounded by people asking about my sexuality – which had always been a confusion to me, never mind anyone else,” she revealed... So I did the book because I thought, ‘I’m bloody well putting my side of how it is’. I wanted it off my chest.” Barrie as Cleopatara in Carry On Cleo, with Sid James Barrie has appeared in other series including Holby City and Bad Girls in a career which even includes early work in the Carry On movie series. She has recently featured in a new series of the TV comedy Benidorm, featuring as 'Psychic Sue.' In 2014 she married her partner, crime writer Hilary Bonner.