
Emmerdale’s Lisa Riley has revealed more about the incident that saw her rushed to hospital for surgery.
The actress, who is 49, has played the role of Mandy Dingle in the ITV soap on and off since 1995.
Over the weekend, disaster struck for Lisa, as she ended up getting sent to a hospital in Leeds for an operation on her thumb.
Lisa took to Instagram yesterday to share a picture of her in her cast, and one alongside her surgeon.
The actress has confirmed in the caption that she sustained the injury as a result of slipping from a stool.
Lisa said: ‘OUR NHS @nhsengland IS INCREDIBLE……. I have to massively thank my specialist surgeon Mr Daniel Thornton at LGI LEEDS hospital and all the beautiful team, every single one of you who treated me this afternoon.
‘I had a very bad fall over the weekend (no I’m sober) no drunk jokes – it was my extremely slippy breakfast stool and a woollen cardi-my left thumb took all of it-so today hence the massive damage I have had my operation, surgery, treating my UCL in my Thumb repaired.
‘#NHS at it’s absolute best-bye for now I have some fantastic pain relief to take.’
Lisa’s friends from the industry took to the comments section to send her some well wishes.
Podcaster and social media influencer Luke Hamnett said: ‘Omg, sending you a big love.’

Cait Fitton, aka Lauren Bolton from Coronation Street, wrote: ‘Sending love beautiful one.’
Lisa’s co-star Amelia Flanagan, who portrays April Windsor, added: ‘Sending love.’
Lisa’s Emmerdale character Mandy Dingle returned to the village last month after spending time looking after Tina Dingle’s children.
In reality, this brief departure happened to facilitate the time Lisa spent away from the ITV soap in Australia, filming for I’m A Celebrity.
When Mandy returned, she was quickly brought up to speed and discovered everything Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt), Dylan Penders (Fred Kettle) and Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) had been through at the start of 2026.

After spending quite a few weeks lying to DS Walsh (Amanda Ryan) about their involvement in Ray Walters’ (Joe Absolom) murder, Paddy and Dylan confessed to the police.
They were charged with peverting the course of justice, but are currently on bail waiting for their trial.
It means Mandy is in with a very real chance of losing Paddy, Dylan and Bear to prison.
The character previously tried to orchestrate a plan to save Paddy and Dylan from time behind bars but when Paddy confronted her, Mandy ultimately respected her partner’s decision to face the consequences of his actions, whatever they might be.