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Barbara Rafferty is the mother of Debbie Rafferty and Nicky Walters and the grandmother of Kelly Jo Rafferty and Preston and Tonya Walters. She lives with Debbie and Kelly Jo.

In Series 11 Episode 3, she is in the living room when Preston visits asking Debbie to help them after he, Nicky and Tonya get evicted.

She is seen again in Series 12 Episode 2 when Nicky is helping Kelly Jo to calm down and prepare for her ADHD diagnosis meeting that day, and again later in the episode when the police search the house for drugs after Nicky exposed Debs's illegal medication of Kelly Jo with diazepam, and Barbara protests when the police try to take her angina pills. Also during this episode, it is hinted that Barbara struggled with alcoholism when Debs and Nicky were young, and it is mentioned that Nicky moved in with their father when Debs was still in primary school, leaving Debs with Barbara.

Barbara next appears in Series 13 Episode 4, in which she is seen at the start of the episode when Valerie Chambers is braiding Kelly Jo's hair for the Jamaican culture day, and Barbara comments that some days Kelly Jo "looks like she's been dragged through a hedge backwards", after Debs says that she looks good in her "normal hair" as well as the braids. Barbara is also in the room at the end of the episode when Kelly Jo tells Debs that she is pregnant.

In Series 13 Episode 6, Barbara disapproves of Kelly Jo having an abortion, calling it a "mortal sin", claiming that she (Barbara) "was born a Roman Catholic".

In Series 14 Episode 1, Nicky is seen visiting Barbara in hospital. It is not specified why she was in hospital, but at the end of the episode, Nicky receives a phone call telling her that Barbara has suffered a stroke and died.

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