not telling her about her son, Raymond Dawkins. After an argument with Denise, Chelsea leaves with Lucas. Patrick, in cooperation with Raymond's father Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), meets Chelsea at The Queen Victoria public house to find out about Lucas' whereabouts. Later that day, Lucas is attacked in front of Chelsea after they leave a restaurant. Phil is blamed for Lucas's attack, but it is Chelsea's ex-boyfriend Caleb Malone (Ben Freeman) who is responsible for the attack. Chelsea is indebted to Caleb after fleecing him, and she is planning on using Lucas to smuggle drugs for Caleb. Chelsea arranges a trip to Spain with Lucas, planning to use him to smuggle drugs, but ultimately fails. Denise confronts Lucas about upsetting Chelsea, and they both go missing. Chelsea finds blood in Lucas's flat and believes that Lucas has hurt Denise and kidnapped her, but she later discovers that Caleb has taken Denise. Denise discovers the truth and reluctantly agrees to help Chelsea frame Lucas. They try to convince Lucas to follow Chelsea to Ibiza, but he later discovers their intentions. He vows to kill Caleb, but Chelsea threatens to abandon Lucas if he proceeds to do so, having not forgiven him for faking Denise's death, and she warns him that Caleb will kill her if he doesn’t help her to smuggle drugs. When Denise's boyfriend and Chelsea's ex-lover Jack, discovers Chelsea's plan, she attempts to seduce him to stop him from reporting her to the police. Lucas is ashamed of Chelsea's behavior and refuses to do the job unless she follows him to church, where he tells Chelsea to go to the police and face imprisonment. After a heart-to-heart, Lucas agrees to do the job but changes his mind leaving Chelsea alone. He is later arrested after being caught, and Chelsea later tips the police off when Caleb asks her to meet him, and he is arrested. Chelsea begins a relationship with Gray Atkins (Toby-Alexander Smith) in June 2021, which is met with strong opposition by his former mother and father-in-law, Karen Taylor (Lorraine Stanley) and Mitch Baker (Roger Griffiths). During their relationship, Chelsea lives extravagantly on Gray's money and shows no interest in bonding with his children, Mia (Mahalia Malcolm) and Mackenzie (Isaac Lemonius), frequently neglecting them when they are in her care. Their relationship comes to an end when Chelsea witnesses Gray's volatile behaviour towards her and others and