This week on Home and Away in Australia, as Leah’s nightmares go from bad to worse, she shocks Justin and calls off their wedding!
After their abduction ordeal, Leah (Ada Nicodemou) appeared to be making progress towards her recovery when she suffered a significant setback that may jeopardise her engagement to Justin (James Stewart).
Members of Vita Nova recently abandoned the two of them in an abandoned factory, leaving Justin with a pierced lung and fractured ribs following a botched escape attempt.
Justin was in such terrible shape by the time Leah managed to break away and sound the alarm to send him to Northern Districts Hospital that it would be too dangerous to perform surgery to undo the damage.
Bree (Juliet Godwin) was forced to operate on Justin despite her warnings that she should say goodbye, as his health worsened. Justin suffered from heart failure as a result.
Even though Justin eventually recovered miraculously, he was still in danger when a member of Vita Nova impersonated hospital personnel and attempted suicide once more.
Leah has been experiencing nightmares of being trapped back in the factory with Justin as a result of the terrible past several weeks. She’s become terrified of falling asleep at all, and her lack of sleep is already affecting her attention and mood.
Although Leah attempted to seek help from Bree in the hope of simply getting some sleeping tablets, Bree’s reminder that it wouldn’t fix the underlying issue scared her away.
Leah finally opened up about what she had been going through when she experienced a flashback one evening as she was waiting for Justin to pick her up. When Leah fell asleep in his arms, Justin’s invitation to stay up late with her seemed to have the desired effect. It had been weeks since Leah had slept soundly, so she was feeling rejuvenated the following morning.
But after just a few days, it appears like things are back to square one. After last week’s shows concluded, Rose (Kirsty Marillier) called Justin with alarming news regarding Leah, who had gone to lunch with Theo’s mother Cassandra. We heard Justin ask, visibly shaken, “Is Leah okay?”
This week, we learn that Leah has been involved in an accident. Justin rushes to the hospital to find Leah in a cubicle with Rose, who is preparing to breathalyse her. As Justin asks what happened, Leah says she isn’t sure.
Rose asks Justin to wait outside as they continue trying to determine the cause of the accident. But as TV Week reports, when the breath test comes back clear, Leah is forced to admit what she thinks really happened. She had fallen asleep at the wheel of her car, and ran a red light!
Leah insists she’s fine as Justin presses her for more details on what she’s going through, and eventually shuts him down by telling him she’s not talking about it with him any more.
As a promo for this week’s episodes reveals, Leah tells Justin that he wouldn’t understand, snapping that whilst he is healed, she is the one that’s still sufferin
“I can’t sleep, because every time I close my eyes, I see you there, dying.” she snaps.
Following Leah to work, Justin is struggling to see why Leah is so angry towards him. “It’s like you blame me for everything we went through,” he exclaims, only for Leah to order him to leave.
Justin turns to Alf (Ray Meagher) for advice as he explains that Leah isn’t doing so great, fearing that he is part of the problem.
When Leah later returns home from work, she drops a bombshell on Justin.
“I need to walk about the wedding,” Leah explains, holding Justin’s hand. “We need to postpone it.”
“Until when?” Justin asks.
“I don’t know,” she replies. “I just can’t get married until I fix what’s going on with me.”
The promo sees Justin later asks Leah to clarify that they are still going to get married and she isn’t calling it off completely, to which Leah appears to struggle in her reply.
Leah had proposed to Justin as he lay at death’s door in the factory, realising that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him.
“Leah never thought she wanted to marry again,” Ada told TV Week. “She really liked the relationship she and Justin had – but something tragic like this makes you reassess everything.”
The couple had finally set a date in recent episodes, Valentine’s Day, but will Leah’s struggles become too much for their relationship to handle?
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