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Hayley was alarmed at her friend's rapid deterioration and revealed to a stunned Roy that she wanted to end her own life when the cancer spread, before her morphine dosage was high enough to make her delirious.
Roy couldn't believe that Hayley wanted to take herself away from him earlier than her illness dictated and refused to support her. Their row led to Hayley leaving Roy to stay with Fiz and Tyrone Dobbs at 9 Coronation Street , where she had a collapse due to an infection and was taken to hospital. The Croppers reunited, but the incident only made both parties more entrenched in their positions on Hayley's suicide plot. When Jane passed away a short time later, Hayley struggled to cope and became tough on Roy for not supporting her.
With Anna Windass's encouragement after Roy let slip Hayley's plans , Roy lied and told Hayley that he had changed his mind. As the year came to a close, Hayley started her chemotherapy sessions and began planning her funeral. Although disappointed in Christian's tactics, Hayley gave him the money and remarked to a disapproving Roy that she had no regrets. After Christmas , Hayley and Roy went to the hospital for the results of another scan, carried out when Hayley complained about feeling pains.
The doctor revealed to the couple that the chemotherapy was proving ineffective due to the cancer being more aggressive than expected, and Hayley's life expectancy was revised to mere weeks. Initially seeming to take the news well, Hayley broke down in a panto queue and asked Roy to take her home, where she became hysterical and knocked the Christmas tree over, complaining that her life had meant nothing. Comforted by Roy, she softened and told him that loving him had made her life worthwhile.
Over the following days, Hayley became more frail and lost her appetite. Feeling herself getting weaker, Hayley decided to end her life the next day and saw each of her close friends in turn, telling them how much she appreciated them, even finding the time to tell Tracy Barlow what a horrible person she was.
On her last day, Hayley prepared a lethal cocktail, instructing Roy not to touch it, and ironed Roy's best shirt for the funeral. In their final conversation, Hayley and Roy reminisced about the past, with Hayley telling Roy that she knew what it was to be loved thanks to him, after which she downed the cocktail and passed away in Roy's arms.
Eleven days after her death on 20th January , Hayley Cropper received a humanist funeral with a colourful theme; mourners were under orders to dress brightly and Hayley was cremated in a coffin adorned with differently coloured flower patterns. This was followed by an upbeat music-filled wake in the Rovers.
The manner of Hayley's send-off was entirely appropriate for a woman who always looked to the positive; a woman who had lit up people's lives with her boundless enthusiasm and kindness.
Hayley joined Firman's Freezers after years of looking after her father, and in the midst of a sex change. It was an emotional time for an emotionally vulnerable woman, which was reflected in her somewhat needy and naive manner in her interactions with her co-workers such as Alma Baldwin. With the support of friends, Hayley gained in confidence and her bubbly personality emerged.
She was a kind woman who always put others first, at times such that she could be seen as a pushover, as evidenced by doing her colleagues work for them to meet quotas. Hayley was very non-confrontational, at least when dealing with bigots such as Les Battersby. Once she had her final operation in Amsterdam , Hayley wanted nothing more than to be one of the girls, but when faced with prejudice it was not anger but disappointment Hayley felt, the abuse serving as a reminder that she would never be able to lead a normal life.
Her anger was typically directed at her circumstances, rather than her tormentors. However, she made an exception for Tracy Barlow , giving her a slap when Tracy made cracks about her sexuality during a heated argument.
Faithful, loyal and kind, Hayley didn't mind putting herself out to help others in a jam. Her skill on the sewing machine made her the go-to person when a dress needed making or mending for a wedding or christening, with Hayley going as far as to mend Claire Casey 's wedding dress late at night on Christmas Eve.
In some ways this was a disadvantage; her easygoing nature made her a poor stand-in factory manager after Paul Connor 's death, with Carla having to take over to get things back on track. Hayley's manner of dress was indicative of a woman older than her years.
She usually wore a shirt and cardigan with a skirt, short hair, and for all of her sixteen years in the Street, she wore the same red anorak. Occasionally, Hayley experimented with a more youthful, feminine look, before deciding that it didn't suit her. Alma Baldwin was Hayley's first close friend following her sex change. Taking pity on Hayley when Curly Watts picked on her for being too unassertive in her job at Firman's Freezers , Alma befriended her in order to boost her confidence.
Hayley was so glad to have a friend that she started following Alma around and bought her an expensive sweater. Realising that Hayley had no other friends, Alma searched for a way to free herself of her without hurting her feelings, succeeding when Hayley was introduced to Roy Cropper at dinner at Alma and Mike 's flat. During Hayley and Roy's relationship, it often fell to Alma to talk sense into them during difficult moments, the most significant one being Roy's rejection of Hayley when she confessed her sexuality to him.
In , Alma was Matron of Honour at their wedding. Hayley was also loyal to Alma. When she saw Mike kissing Linda Sykes , Hayley didn't tell Alma to avoid hurting her, but when Alma found out that Mike had a girlfriend, she came clean. Before meeting Hayley, Roy Cropper led a life very similar to his future wife; he was an only child, whose father St.
John Cropper had walked out on the family, and his mother Sylvia found him a disappointment due to his oddness. His relationship with Hayley started out platonically, meeting for the first time over dinner at Alma's flat.
With nobody else in the mood for talking, Roy bored the rest of the table with his dry stories, but he had a captive audience in Hayley, and took her out for a drink afterwards. Roy and Hayley shared a caring, trusting relationship, successful partly because they were friends as well as husband and wife. In most aspects of their lives, they were a team, for example in their volunteer work and becoming first aiders.
Hayley was the more open emotionally of the two, with Roy wearing a constant stone face. He had a very analytical, literal mind, and abhorred lying. One instance where this was a problem was when the Croppers were interviewed to assess their suitability as foster parents in December Roy upset Hayley with his honest but blunt responses to the questions, in which he admitted that he didn't see her as a normal woman, because he knew intellectually that she was a born a man.
She briefly left him and went to stay with Alma, before deciding to forgive him. However, Hayley's insecurity over how Roy saw her occasionally cropped up, in particular her fear that he didn't find her attractive, but it was never mentioned again after his near-suicide in when he thought he'd been unfaithful to Hayley with Tracy Barlow.
Although devoted to Hayley, Roy could sometimes be insensitive. In , he failed to take an interest in Hayley's ballroom dancing due to being caught up in his chess games with Mary Taylor. In , he ignored Hayley in favour of his friend Clifford Ford , who loved trains almost as much as Roy did. Also, his presents to her was usually more suited to him, for example an authentic but rustic meal from the Civil War period , a holiday in Burnham Thorpe for the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar , and Scrabble in a foreign language However, this was borne out of a desire to share his interests with his wife rather than selfishness, and Roy was also capable of more romantic gestures, with the occasional prompting from friends.
When Hayley decided to end her own life when diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer, Roy refused to support her, seeing it as selfish on her part to take herself away from him, cherishing every possible second he could spend with her. For Hayley's sake, he gave his approval, but he let his true feelings slip on occasion. Hayley made him promise to go on and be her eyes, ears and heart for years to come. She passed away with Roy at her side, but she left behind a husband who felt betrayed and abandoned, who was now without his soulmate.
Unaware that Hayley plans to kill herself, Fiz makes plans to visit her every day. Fiz Brown was the second of the Croppers' foster children in New to the Street, Fiz found Roy and Hayley old-fashioned and caused trouble by reporting Roy for hitting her when they tried to crack down on her skiving off school.
A few months later, Fiz returned to the area, older and wiser, and apologised to the Croppers for being rotten to them. Roy and Hayley's role in Fiz's life was as surrogate parents although in contrast to Becky Granger , Fiz rarely leaned on the Croppers for emotional support and her job alongside Hayley in the factory meant that they were as much friends as mother and daughter figures.
In , the Croppers employed Fiz's husband John Stape at the cafe, despite his kidnap of Rosie Webster which had resulted in his imprisonment. In , when Fiz was on remand for murders which John had committed, she asked the Croppers to look after her daughter Hope until she was transferred to the Mother and Baby unit in prison.
Hayley was run off her feet looking after Hope but was sad when the time came to give her up. Angela Harris was one of Hayley's colleagues from the factory. Hayley was the first Street resident to find out their secret, learning the truth when Angela confided in her, after Hayley took her to casualty when Angela hurt her finger on the sewing machine.
Hayley agreed to keep her secret and didn't even tell Roy. Hayley also played a part in the drama surrounding Tommy Harris 's murder. Angela claimed to be doing it so that the police would take the threat from the Morgan brothers - the cause of their relocation to Weatherfield — seriously. Hayley did so, but was very troubled by deciding to get involved, and told the police about the fake letter when Angela was arrested for her husband's murder. Angela apologised to Hayley and asked her to tell everyone the truth.
The murderer was later revealed to be Katy Harris , with Angela taking the blame to protect her daughter. Becky Granger entered Hayley's life when Becky started working at Underworld in One step away from living rough and always in some sort of trouble with the police, about the only thing Becky had going for her was her 'friendship' with Kelly Crabtree , who she betrayed by letting her take the blame for thefts at the factory.
Hayley was therefore sceptical when Becky tried to befriend her when Hayley was doing voluntary work with ex-offenders later in the year, but she decided to give Becky a chance, feeling that everyone could be rehabilitated. Becky's stay with the Croppers reached an impasse when Becky went for a joyride in Hayley's car with her friend Slug , and she was subsequently sacked for starting a fire in the cafe which was actually caused by an electrical fault. Hayley gave Becky her job back at the cafe and from then on there was more trust in their relationship.
She admired their honesty and loyalty, seeing it as something to aspire to, and her desire to be worthy of their trust was a big motivator in her turning her life around. In an eventful six years in the Street , Becky loved and lost, achieving some of her dreams but constantly arriving back at square one, partly because she always thought that any happiness in her life was temporary and sooner or later she'd blow it.
The Croppers usually played a supportive role in her dramas, even those which were of her own making; in , they convinced Dev and Sunita Alahan not to press charges against her for robbing the Corner Shop. In , Becky confided in them her mother's death, which she had kept even from Steve McDonald. Later that year, they supported her when she had her miscarriages, and it was on Hayley's advice that the McDonalds turned to adoption.
Hayley and Becky did have the occasional cross word. In , she assaulted Christian Gatley due to his violent reaction to Hayley's revelation about being his father, causing Christian to flee the area and lose touch with Hayley. In December , when Tracy Barlow had a miscarriage which she claimed was caused by Becky pushing her down the stairs, Becky defiantly refused to take the blame, claiming that Tracy had lost the babies before the stairs incident and slipped down her staircase of her own accord.
Due to her longstanding feud with Tracy, Becky was shunned by the residents, with only Roy and her sister Kylie Platt believing her. When Becky heard Hayley admitting to Roy that she didn't know who to believe, she became angry and shoved her. Hayley regretted her harsh words and she and Becky soon made up.
The Croppers were one of the few people Becky said goodbye to when she left the Street a few weeks later, to start a new life in Barbados.
Carla Connor became the Underworld co-manager in following the death of her husband Paul. Carla appreciated Hayley as a valuable member of the sewing room team, but nothing more; poles apart in personality, Carla was a glamorous factory boss, and Hayley a frumpy staff supervisor. It wasn't until that Hayley took on a greater significance in her life; when Carla's husband Tony Gordon made a deathbed confession to arranging the murder of Liam Connor to Roy, only to recover, Roy became obsessed with exposing him.
This culminated in Tony nearly drowning Roy in the canal before turning himself over to the police and confessing to his crimes. Carla was absent from Weatherfield throughout these events, as she had fled to California when Tony admitted the truth to her months earlier. Upon her return, she faced the disgust of the residents, Hayley among them, although Hayley was one of the first to forgive Carla. In June , Tony escaped from prison and took Carla and Hayley hostage at the factory, intending to kill Hayley along with Carla so that Roy would feel the same loss he felt when Maria Connor turned her back on him.
He only set Hayley free when Carla pleaded with him, and the incident ended with Tony perishing in a blaze he started himself.
Hayley credited Carla for being the reason she was still alive, and the two became close, if unlikely, friends.
In September , Hayley cleared Frank Foster 's things from the factory after his rape of Carla and ran the factory in her absence. In , Carla was one of the first people to find out about Hayley's cancer treatment. Then awaiting the results of her CT scan, Hayley couldn't concentrate at the factory and explained her situation to Carla. Carla drove her to the hospital, where she found out she had pancreatic cancer.
After Roy, Carla provided the most support to Hayley in her final months, and in fact often acted as a counterbalance to Roy by encouraging Hayley to stay active and trying to boost her spirits, which was much appreciated by her ailing friend. During their last conversation, Hayley thanked Carla for giving her three extra years of life. Finding her manner odd, Carla investigated and persuaded Anna Windass to let her into the flat , where they found Roy with a lifeless Hayley, who had passed away moments before.
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