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In January 2017, Michelle falls ill at hers and Leanne's shared baby shower moments after [[Robert Preston (Coronation Street)|Robert Preston]] ([[Tristan Gemmill]]) confesses his love for her. She is rushed to the hospital and is kept overnight. However, in the morning Michelle goes into labour after a 23-week-long pregnancy and gives birth to a baby boy, whom she and Steve name [[Ruairi McDonald]]. Ruairi is not breathing and due to the hospital's policy of not intervening before 24 weeks, he dies. This leaves Michelle devastated, and she contemplates suicide in order to be with Ruairi, but is talked out of it by Robert. In February 2017, Leanne gives birth in an elevator, with Michelle visiting hers and Steve's son, [[Oliver Battersby]]. At Oliver's welcome home party at the Bistro, Steve holds Oliver and reveals that he is Oliver's father. Michelle is initially furious and punches Leanne, however, she is distraught at Steve for his betrayal of her. Michelle throws glasses at Steve in front of everybody at The Rovers. Michelle then discovers Liz knew the truth. Steve begs Michelle to forgive him but she tells him that he kills their marriage before leaves and orders Steve to not follow her. The following week Michelle locks Liz and Steve out of The Rovers, she then grabs Eva by the hair and kicks her out after Eva refuses to leave. A few weeks later she kisses Nick after they talk about Leanne and Steve being together. Michelle goes to spend a few days with Carla until things calm down.
When she returns, Steve arranged for him and Michelle to go for a marriage counseling session. After initially agreeing to go, she changes her mind after Robert's confession of his love for her. They have sex together back at Robert's flat, however, Steve finds out about their relationship. He is furious and threatens to fight her for the divorce. When Steve mentions that Michelle is still wearing her wedding ring, thinking that she doesn't want a divorce, she hits back that she only wears her wedding ring to remind her of how much she hated him. She angrily throws her ring at Steve and declares war on him, promising she will do whatever it takes to get half of everything, and she moves out of The Rovers and moves in with Robert for romance and business. In August 2017, Will returns to Weatherfield as a potential love interest for Maria, while Michelle is left shaken after witnessing [[Chesney Brown]] ([[Sam Aston]]) being stabbed with a glass bottle in The Bistro by Rich Collis ([[Fraser Ayres]]). A vendetta is later started against Robert, and Michelle is convinced that Rich is behind it. After going into town for a drink, Michelle's drink is drugged and she is kidnapped, tied up, gagged and left in the boot of a car in a nearby car park. The following morning, she is found by a woman in a state of complete distress and gives a statement to the police describing what happened. A few days later, Michelle does a drug test and is told that [[Rohypnol]] was used to abduct her. Robert believes that Rich is behind Michelle's kidnap and brutally beats him up, leaving him in a critical condition and Robert facing a court hearing. Everyone is unaware, however, that Will was behind the kidnap and is stalking Michelle. She later, however, finds out and he is found guilty. In November 2017, after Robert is released from prison he is diagnosed with [[testicular cancer]], leaving Michelle distraught. Robert struggles with the diagnosis badly and begins gambling, running The Bistro into large debts. Due to this, Michelle robs The Bistro but is hit over the head with a glass bottle by Carla's sister, [[Kate Connor (Coronation Street)|Kate Connor]] ([[Faye Brookes]]), who is unaware that it is her. Later on, after recovering from the head injury Michelle visits Kate and pretends to be innocent however Kate knows she was the robber, Michelle, however, starts to blackmail Kate as she knows about her affair with [[Rana Habeeb|Rana Nazir]] ([[Bhavna Limbachia]]).
In February 2018, Michelle cuts her hand and goes to the medical centre and meets a trainee doctor named Ali (James Burrows), whom she discovers is her son Alex, who is bitter at Michelle for not being in contact with him for years. They gradually start patching their relationship up. Robert proposes to Michelle, which she accepts and they start to plan their wedding. In May 2018, Michelle is distraught when Carla and Kate's brother [[Aidan Connor]] ([[Shayne Ward]]) commits suicide and considers postponing the wedding but doesn't although Robert then has a heart attack due to steroid use. Ryan (now played by [[Ryan Prescott (actor)|Ryan Prescott]]) flies from Ibiza back to Weatherfield for the wedding and doesn't get along with Ali, which upsets Michelle. Just moments before Michelle and Robert can get married, however, [[Pat Phelan (Coronation Street)|Pat Phelan]] ([[Connor McIntyre]]) gatecrashes the ceremony with his daughter [[Nicola Rubinstein]] ([[Nicola Thorp]]) - whom he accidentally shot whilst trying to flee Weatherfield for his nefarious activities. After forcing Ali to save Nicola's life, Phelan requests for a hostage and selects Michelle - despite Robert's pleas to be taken instead to no avail. When Phelan clocks his gun and threatens to kill Michelle and Robert, Michelle quickly complies to spare Robert and she is taken hostage by Phelan. He drags her into the kitchen, where he finds himself confronted by [[Anna Windass]] ([[Debbie Rush]]) - whom Phelan had blackmailed into sleeping with four years earlier before going on to frame her for pushing [[Seb Franklin]] (Harry Visinoni) off a ladder a year earlier, which resulted in Anna's four month imprisonment until she was released at the time Phelan's crimes were exposed on the week Michelle proposed to Robert. As Anna and Phelan exchanged glances at each other, Michelle used this opportunity to try and escape from Phelan's clutches - prompting him to shove her aside and shoot Michelle. As Michelle stumbles to the ground, she watches as Anna charges Phelan with a knife and stabs him in the chest - causing him to stumble onto the ground in pain. Shortly afterward, Robert bursts into the kitchen with Ali and Carla. They proceed to tend to Michelle's aid, ignoring Phelan as he pulls the knife out of his chest and vows to have Anna imprisoned for his eventual demise. Michelle retaliates by promising to describe the stabbing as self-defence. Although Phelan blurts out to Michelle that in doing so would risk her facing the possibility of prison, Michelle states that she would task the risk for Anna's sake and for that of Phelan's two murdered victims: [[Andy Carver]] ([[Oliver Farnworth]]) - whom Phelan had locked in his old house's cellar a year earlier since he left his “father” [[Michael Rodwell]] ([[Les Dennis]]) to die of a heart attack, before killing him after forcing him to execute his friend [[Vinny Ashford]] ([[Ian Kelsey]]) - and [[Luke Britton]] (Dean Fagan), the brother of Andy's girlfriend [[Steph Britton]] (Tisha Merry). Shortly after Phelan dies in front of Michelle and her wedding guests, including Anna, she is subsequently taken to the hospital - though not after telling Robert that she meant what she said, stating that Phelan has destroyed enough lives during his reign of terror upon Weatherfield. By the time Michelle has recovered, as does Nicola, she reunites with Robert, Ali and Ryan; Michelle and Robert are eventually married weeks later.
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