Stella Price Stella Price ( previously Munro ) is the mother of Eva Price and Leanne Tilsley and former landlady of the Rovers Return Inn . Born to Gloria Price , Stella became a mother in 1981 aged eighteen after giving birth to Leanne . However her lover Les Battersby refused to let Stella see Leanne , and Stella wouldn ' t see her daughter again until thirty years later . In that time , she gave birth to another daughter Eva and entered a relationship with taxi driver Karl Munro . Stella and Karl arrived in Weatherfield after she landed herself a job managing the Rovers and Eva soon followed . She was later discovered to be Leanne ' s mother . Leanne took a while accepting Stella but was eventually won round , particularly due to the fact that she saved Leanne ' s life twice and when Stella got run over by a drunk Carla Connor , which Leanne partly blamed herself for . Following Carla ' s rape ordeal at the hands of Frank Foster , Stella confided in her and revealed that she had been raped by a regular of a previous pub she ran . She was also cheated on by Karl with her friend Sunita Alahan . She soon embarked on a relationship with builder Jason Grimshaw . After a blazing fire in the Rovers that almost claimed Stella ' s life , she and Jason split up . She later reconciled with Karl after he saved her life but was unaware that he was the arsonist who started the fire in an attempt to frame Jason . Stella was upset to realise that Sunita passed away , believing the fire to be the cause , although it was really Karl who dislodged her breathing tube as she lay in intensive care . Karl and Stella then decided to get married . Shortly after their wedding , Karl hit widower Dev Alahan with a bottle when he discovered that Karl caused the fire . He confessed that he murdered Sunita a few months prior and Stella was briefly held hostage by him . Karl then decided to release Stella and was soon arrested for arson and murder . Following Karl ' s arrest , Stella filed for divorce , sold the Rovers to its former owner Steve McDonald and moved into 13 Coronation Street . She spent the next few months working as a waitress at Nick ' s Bistro , but after Jason and Eva began a relationship , she decided to move to Manhattan for a fresh start away from Weatherfield . Biography . When Stella was a teenager , she was in a relationship with Les Battersby and fell pregnant with his child and gave birth to a little girl . Les wanted to name his daughter Betty ( after his mother ) but Stella named her Leanne . Les and Stella were in a happy relationship until Les started drinking heavily and neglected Stella and Leanne . A lonely Stella left Les and her daughter because she couldn ' t cope . However , she later returned to get her baby back but Les and his mother refused to let her see Leanne , leaving Stella heartbroken . Stella later began running pubs across the country . When she was running a pub in Warrington , she held lock - ins for the locals , and one night , whilst closing up , a customer threatened to tell her boss what she had been up to . Stella was raped by the customer after refusing to have sex with him . however , she chose not to go to the police because she felt it was her fault . Stella was given a job as manager of the Rovers Return Inn by Steve McDonald after impressing him the most compared to the other applicants . Tracy Barlow however was none too pleased about this , as she thought Steve had promised her the vacancy instead . Stella started her first shift the next day , and her down - to - earth nature seemed to appeal to both the staff and the customers . Steve had also allowed Stella a room at the Rovers as part of her conditions of her taking on the job . He did not however expect first her partner Karl Munro and then her daughter Eva to move in also . Nevertheless , he agreed ( although he didn ' t really have much choice ) . A week into her tenure , Steve headed away for a few days for his birthday leaving Stella solely in charge . Matters were made messy though when Steve ' s estranged wife , Becky , moved back into the Rovers and declared herself in charge . When Steve later returned , he found the pub completely trashed and a window smashed as a result of a brawl breaking out . Blaming Stella , he sacked her on the spot , but later calmed down and realising what his volatile spouse was like , asked Stella to stay on , which she agreed to do . Stella seemed to take quite a keen interest towards Leanne and jumped to her defense on several occasions be it a row between Leanne and Eva or even tackling an armed robber in Barlow ' s Bookies . Because of this , Leanne ' s husband Peter started to become suspicious of Stella - even more so when he spotted a picture of his wife in the landlady ' s purse . When confronted , Stella revealed that she was Leanne ' s mother . With her 30th birthday approaching , Stella wanted to make amends to her secret daughter , and begged Peter not to say anything just yet . He agreed , but for Leanne ' s sake . However , Eva began to think there might be something going on between her mother and the married bookie after catching the pair sharing a secret conversation in Roy ' s Rolls . That night , Leanne celebrated her 30th birthday with a surprise party held at the Rovers . While the celebrations were taking place , in the pub ' s back room Eva demanded to know what exactly was going on between Stella and Peter . He in turn told Stella that the time had come for her to reveal all to Leanne - with the lady herself walking in at that precise moment . When Leanne rejected her and refused to believe her reasons for her disappearing act , Stella planned to leave Weatherfield . However , Peter managed to stop her by accusing her of abandoning Leanne for the second time . Over the next few weeks , Stella continued to make amends with both of her daughters . She supported Leanne when she suffered a miscarriage after falling down a set of stairs and took Eva out for some " retail therapy " and supported Carla Connor through her rape ordeal due to her own experience . She wasn ' t pleased when Peter cheated on Leanne , so threatened Carla and doubted she got raped as she previously lied about who ran her over . She left in Weatherfield in April 2014 after a failed relationship with Dev Alahan and went to Manhattan , New York . In February of the following year , Jason planned on a surprise trip to visit Stella with Eva , however this was averted when the pair split after Todd manipulated Jason into believing Eva was having an affair with his father Tony . In July 2016 , Eva saw her mother when she went away on a two week break to France . Quotes . " If you are going to ask her out , ask her out " ( First line to Tommy Duckworth , concerning Tina McIntyre ) . " Go home and take some weight off that gob ! " ( To Tina McIntyre ) " Folk want cold beer and hotpot , not warm ale and scratchings by candlelight . " ( Talking about the power cut at the Rovers ) " Oh I em , I forgot this . Look after her eh ? " ( Final line )