Teresa Bryant Teresa Bryant is the ex - wife of Jerry Morton who moved to Coronation Street in 2008 to help take care of him after he had a heart attack . She attempted to poison him so he could stay . When Jerry left the Street , Teresa stayed with her son Darryl and they ran the Takeaway . When Jerry rented the house to the Windass family and sold the shop to Dev Alahan , Teresa moved away . She however returned and later moved in with Lloyd Mullaney , an ex - partner of hers . But she again left the Street when he was in love with Cheryl Gray . Biography . Teresa first appeared on 28th March 2007 as the ex - wife of Jerry Morton . She mistreated her children Kayleigh and Finlay , resulting in Jerry taking them back to Weatherfield . She returned in May 2008 following Jerry ' s heart attack . In June , she conned Lloyd Mullaney into thinking that Finlay was his son , and took advantage of Lloyd , when this was revealed to Jerry , he responded by attempting to throw Teresa out , though he later let an insistent Teresa stay a little longer , much to her daughter , Mel ' s dismay . Teresa revealed that her ex - boyfriend Gary Denmark , Finlay ' s father , used to beat her , and it was discovered he was now in prison . On 25th June 2008 , Teresa began a brief feud with the Websters after she attacked Rosie at David Platt ' s house party when she made jibes about Jerry ' s weight . In August 2008 , Teresa plotted to poison Jerry with an overdose of warfarin tablets , as an attempt to stay living at No . 6 . She constantly laced Jerry ' s meals with his tablets . Tension relaxed when Mel went on a holiday with cop mate Abi Sharpe , but when Mel returned she was angry that Teresa was still living at No . 6 . Teresa protested that Jerry was increasingly unwell and pale , so Jerry had let her move back in . Mel soon discovered Teresa ' s lie and the two had an argument . Mel later gave Jerry an ultimatum - Teresa moved out or she did , resulting in Mel going to stay at Abi ' s . Later , Jerry collapsed and banged his head on the coffee table leaving him with a bleeding ear , as a result of Teresa ' s poisoning . Teresa later confessed to Jerry whilst he was in hospital , despite Jerry ' s proposal to give it another go with her . In September 2008 , Teresa helped Mel get revenge for her as she was involved in an attack which resulted in the wounding of Abi Sharpe by a vicious girl gang , when she gave one of the girls a blow to the head with a heel of her shoe . Earlier that night , Mel and Teresa reconciled and settled their differences . However , when Mel discovered that Teresa had plotted to poison Jerry , they yet again fell out and Mel arrested Teresa for attempted murder . The police later released her after Jerry denied that she had tried to kill him . Teresa then turned up at No . 6 that night begging for forgiveness but Jerry and the kids ordered her to leave . In October 2008 , Darryl brought a drunken Teresa back to the house much to the disgruntlement of Mel who packed her things and left home unable to be under the same roof as her mother , she also caused Tina to quit her job at the kebab shop . In November , Jerry sold the business to Dev Alahan , then rented No . 6 to Eddie and Anna Windass the following month . Teresa refused to move out of No . 6 and had handcuffed herself to the oven , but was cut free and thrown out . She then left the Street . Teresa returned in April 2009 and turned up drunk at Roy ' s Rolls looking for Darryl as it was his birthday , only to be turfed out by Anna who was working there . Dev agreed to let Teresa stay in the Corner Shop flat , on the condition that Darryl moved in with her . She then got her old job back in the takeaway . Later in the year she was glad when Dev paid Darryl to break up with his daughter Amber Kalirai as Teresa felt that Darryl was too good for her , and told Amber that Dev had bribed Darryl . An angry Darryl threw Teresa out of the flat , and she was sacked by Dev . Amber later left to study in London and Darryl left to live with Jerry in Spain . Teresa moved in with Lloyd and began a relationship with him after his breakup from Liz McDonald . In 2010 she got a job as a cleaner at Underworld , but machinist Kelly Crabtree dirtied the floor causing a row between them , which prompted Carla Connor to sack Teresa on her first day . However after much grovelling she got her job back . In March , Teresa came to realise that Lloyd wasn ' t interested in her as he had eyes on Cheryl Gray and became close to her . Liz advised Teresa to leave Lloyd with her head held up high . Teresa packed up her things at Lloyd ' s flat , and kissed him goodbye before leaving putting on a brave face . After leaving , she phoned Darryl asking for a favour . Quotes . " Can ' t see why she wants to come back with me " ( First line , referring to daughter Kayleigh ) . " Hiya love , it ' s your mum . . . I need a favour " ( Final line , to son Darryl ) .