EastEnders fans were left ‘sobbing’ after terminally ill Lola marries Jay in ‘heartbreaking’ episode
‘Pass me the tissues’: EastEnders fans left ‘sobbing’ after terminally ill Lola marries Jay in ‘beautiful’ but ‘heartbreaking’ episode
EastEnders fans were left in tears after Lola Pearce finally tied the knot with Jay Brown in a beautiful ceremony on Thursday night’s episode.
On Wednesday night, Lola called off the wedding due to her diagnosis of a terminal brain tumor last year.
While everyone was worrying about where the bride had gone, she came to the wedding to talk to Jay and tell her that she couldn’t marry him.
Devastating: EastEnders fans have been left in tears after Lola Pearce finally married Jay Brown in a beautiful ceremony on Thursday night’s episode.
She said, ‘I want you to know what I’m signing you up for… I’m scared. I’m going to die and I don’t like it’.
Crying Lola said: ‘Think about the end, the end of my life. It’s going to be hard. It could get scary, dark, painful.’
She added: “I grew up in a care, I’m used to being alone.”
But Jay told her that he loves her, saying, “I want to spend the rest of your life with you.”
Tragic: Wednesday night Lola called off the wedding due to her diagnosis of a terminal brain tumor last year
‘No matter how much pain and sadness, it will be worth it for the joy you give me.’
Lola decides to go through with the wedding and the couple exchange vows and rings as their emotional friends and family look on.
And viewers at home couldn’t help but cry over the ‘tragic’ and ‘beautiful’ ceremony, taking to Twitter to express their heartbreak.
One said: ‘this scene of lola and jay i’m crying’, while another added: ‘i’m already crying fs’.
‘Sobbing’: And viewers at home couldn’t help but cry over the ‘tragic’ and ‘beautiful’ ceremony, taking to Twitter to express their anguish.
Someone else agreed, writing: “Lola and Jay’s wedding is SO sad but SO beautiful.”
A fourth wrote: “My heart is breaking knowing that Jay will soon lose her soul mate.”
While a fifth echoed: ‘Yeah, I’m crying to see Lola and Jay get married. And no, I don’t apologize for it.
A sixth fan said: ‘I don’t think I’ve cried as much over a story as this one. Absolutely breaking me.’
And a seventh tweeted: ‘Pass me the tissues’.
However, there was trouble in paradise for the newlyweds, after Billy Mitchell let it slip that he and Jay went looking for Lola’s long-lost mother, Emma.
A furious Lola stormed off, but Kathy comforted her, telling her that Jay was only looking out for her and to let him look out for her.
He returned to the Old Vic for the wedding reception, and the couple had their first dance.
Lola then gave a speech dedicated to her grandfather Billy, saying, ‘Pops, you’re my mommy, daddy, and grandpa all rolled into one. Thank you for giving me a life worth living.’
But her mother, played by Patsy Kensit, was seen watching the couple from afar in Albert Square.
As Lola and Jay headed home, Jay accidentally released one of her initial balloons and it rose into the sky.
The last shot of the episode showed the couple in bed, with Jay looking sadly at the ‘J’ balloon alone.
Viewers couldn’t help but cry at the symbolism with one tweeting: “Not the L balloon going skyward, foreshadowing.”
A second said, ‘It’s not Jay crying. And not the balloon L flying away. How dare you #EastEnders’.
A third raved: ‘Wow, what an episode! Literally crying my leg. You did that beautiful but heartbreaking.’
‘Foreshadowing’: Viewers couldn’t help but cry at the symbolism and one tweeted: ‘Not balloon L going into the sky, foreshadowing.’