Writing in her upcoming autobiography This Is Me, the 51-year-old said that she couldn't seem to avoid criticism of her northern accent.
"There'd been some doubtful mutterings and finger-waving in some circles even before I'd appeared. Oh no, no, no - Cindy Beale can't be in Coronation Street," Collins wrote, according to The Mirror .
"That just won't do. Some people wanted me to fail before I'd even started, and talk of my supposedly dodgy accent was just the ammunition they needed.
"I didn't get it. I'd worked hard with a great dialect coach called Mark, and as critical of myself as I often am, I really didn't think I sounded bad at all."
The actress went on to describe the situation as "like a witch-hunt" and found her first weeks on set difficult.
"I turned on the radio to hear someone chuckling about it on a phone-in," she explained. "Then I heard it was trending on Twitter.
"I had no idea how to deal with it. I'd never really suffered any tough criticism about my performances and this couldn't have been more public.
"I was deeply upset but I didn't want to show it, so I began to disengage from everything and everyone.
Michelle Collins alongside former Coronation Street actor John Michie as Karl Munro
"If you had asked anyone else in the Corrie cast what I was like in that first few weeks they'd probably have said something like, 'Oh, she's a bit uptight, that one'."
Collins also revealed that the return of Bev Callard's Liz McDonald to the Rovers "was a bit of a blow".
"I'm not sure I would have signed up for another year if I'd known it was going to happen," she said.
"I wasn't sure how it was going to work if Stella wasn't running the pub, and I can't pretend I wasn't disappointed.
"Once Stella's murdering husband Karl had been locked up and the Price family had moved out of the pub, my fears were realised.
"Stella just seemed to be hovering around without purpose, popping in here and there with the odd wise word for her daughters. That wasn't enough for me, especially when it meant being away from my family."
However, Collins insisted that she left the soap on good terms, adding: "I'm walking away from Corrie with no malice or bad feeling."
Yesterday (March 30), the former EastEnders actresses also revealed that she once took an overdose of pills.
This Is Me is released on April 3.
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