Emmerdale shock as Moira Barton’s mystery illness revealed in bombshell news

EMMERDALE’S Moira Barton’s health mystery has been solved with doctors discovering a mass on her brain.

The farmer – who is played by actress Natalie J Robb in the ITV soap – has been suffering from memory loss, seizures and hallucinations for weeks as well as seeing her behaviour spiral out of control.

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In tonight’s episode she was rescued from the barn fire with no memory of how she got there.

But in the hospital as Moira tried to get Cain to understand that there was something seriously wrong with her, he tried batting it off – until she had a seizure.

Doctors managed to bring her out of it before sending her for a brain scan to get to the bottom of what was going on.

The doctor returned after the brain scan to give Moira the results.

He told her: “I don’t want to alarm you but there was an abnormality on the scan in the form of a mass which is putting a bit of pressure in the brain.”

Moira panicked, asking: “A mass? Like a tumour?”

The doctor told a panicking Moira: “Don’t get ahead of yourself.

“The neurologist will order an MRI scan and then we’ll know more about the abnormality once that’s been carried out.”

Later Moira broke the news to Cain, telling him: “I told myself I wasn’t going to cry.

“It makes sense, the way I’ve been behaving, the things I’ve done. It wasn’t me, and I’m not making excuses.

“I’m so sorry for what I’ve put you through. And Nate, I’ve ruined his life too. Cain, I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.”

Cain was beating himself up about not realising something was wrong with Moira but Caleb told him to stop and focus on what he could do now.

But with Nate gone, beaten literally by Cain over a misunderstanding, he’s lost his son.

By the end of the episode Cain lay his head on sleeping Moira.

But will the couple survive what’s to come? And will Moira be able to be cured?