Dee Grayson Dee Grayson was a woman who lived at 22 Station Road in Weatherfield who had been burgled by Michael Rodwell two years earlier . The event had had a devastating effect on her self - confidence . Michael had never been easy in his conscience about his life of crime and had become fully reformed and settled in Coronation Street , despite the loss of his son and the collapse of his marriage to Gail . Working on the switch at Street Cars one day , he was unsettled when Dee rang for a cab and gave him her address - one that he knew only too well . The call was to pick her up from Freshco and Nick , the driver , regaled Michael ' s partner Eileen Grimshaw afterwards with stories of how Dee made him check the house and its locks before letting him go , forgetting her shopping in the confusion . Overhearing this , Michael said he would arrange to have the items delivered but Dee turned up at the cab office to collect them herself , worried about the lettuce in the bag . Michael eagerly took her home in another cab , offering to carry out the house check again for her . Once back home , Eileen was surprised to find out that he had also agreed to organise the cleaning of her gutters and carry out other odd jobs round the house . After a week or so , Eileen grew tired of the amount of time that Michael was spending helping her out and it started to cause a rift between them , especially when he started to fall asleep at work at Street Cars through exhaustion . To Michael ' s annoyance , she started to shield calls from Dee , saying that the woman was starting to take the mickey but she also began to take more care of her appearance , feeling jealous of the growing friendship between the two . She totally changed her stance when she heard that Dee had nominated a very reluctant Michael for that year ' s Weatherfield Good Samaritan Award and promptly started to boast to all and sundry about it . As the neighbours heaped praise on him , Michael grew more and more uneasy and confessed to Gail that he was helping because of his guilt about the burglary . He refused to accept the invitation to the award ceremony to be held in Nick ' s Bistro , putting it in the bin but Eileen , non - plussed at his attitude , fished it out and accepted on his behalf . The pressure grew further on him when Dee pushed him into wearing her father ' s cufflinks at the ceremony and Eileen made sure that a flattering article appeared about him in the " Weatherfield Gazette " , complete with photograph . Michael could only turn to his estranged wife Gail for help , confessing to her that he worried what would happen if Dee found out the truth and he ended up back in prison , something he didn ' t think he could cope with again . On the night of the ceremony , things went wrong from the start : Michael couldn ' t bring himself to even walk into the venue until pushed to by Gail , thereby annoying Eileen , but everyone was thrown when Dee came in with her neighbour Patricia who had read the " Gazette " article and had instantly recognised Michael as the man she had seen running away from Dee ' s house two years before . Dee tore into Michael in front of all the attendees , telling him the adverse effect that he ' d had on his life and that now that she knew who he was she hated him a hundred times more than when he was a faceless entity to her . Michael ran after her , begging her not to report him to the police and saving him from jail . After further pleading from Gail , Dee agreed , provided that he never made any attempts to contact her again . List of appearances . 2015