Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan has given insight into the difficult experience her eldest child is enduring following the explosive row she launched online at ex-fiancé Scott Sinclair
Helen Flanagan has opened up about her struggles as a single mum. Life is returning to normal for Helen as she has left panto behind and is back to the chaos of motherhood. However, while giving an update to fans about life as a working mum-of-three, she admitted she has a difficult relationship with her eldest child.
The 35-year-old former Coronation Street star had a high-profile romance with footballer ex-fiancé Scott Sinclair, which lasted from 2009 until 2022, and together they share daughters Matilda, 10, Delilah, seven, and four-year-old son Charlie. Since their shock split, Helen has given fans detailed updates of her personal life and the challenges she and Scott face as they co-parent while living their separate lives.
In recent weeks, Helen has been performing at a pantomime in Liverpool – playing the Evil Queen in a production of Snow White. She has spoken out about the support she has had from her mother who has helped her look after her kids while off to work she goes.
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While in an astonishing outburst earlier this month, Helen slammed Scott for flying abroad and missing their son’s first nativity performance. Now Helen has updated her fans to explain that she is getting back into home life with her kids after they spent Christmas with their father.
In an Instagram Stories post, she addressed the camera while wearing simple leggings and a striped top. While she struggled to inform fans and followers of her current daily life, Helen’s kids could be heard screaming and shouting in the background.
Speaking to her followers, Helen began: “So, I have finished panto. It’s really sad, because I absolutely loved it. And then I’ve got the kids back… which is amazing.” She continued: “I finished panto. I absolutely loved it. I had the best time. And then, yeah, I got the kids back, so obviously they went to their dad’s for Christmas, and it’s always just like, such an adjustment when they come back like, it really takes a while for the children to adjust and then for me to adjust.”
She explained further: “So one of my best friends lives in Birmingham, and usually I do like a switch over in Birmingham with their dad, but just so everything was just a bit easier, my friend picked them up, and then, bless her, she drove to Cheshire. Obviously, like, I finished really late with panto, we had to wrap everything up, and then I went out the night before.
“Because obviously, I didn’t have the kids. When I don’t have the children as well, I kind of, like do things I don’t usually do, like, go out, you know. I’ve got, like, all my freedom. And then as soon as my kids are back, it literally is just like, I’m just with the children.”
Sharing stark details of her crash back to mum time, Helen continued: “So yeah, I didn’t have much sleep, so I’m so grateful that [my friend] actually met me. But yeah, I was awoken this morning to Charlie telling me to wipe his bum at like, seven o’clock in the morning. So you know…”
Helen went on to give insight into the finer dynamics of her life with her children – revealing that her two youngest were too young when she and Scott split, but her eldest daughter can become “moody” when switching between their two homes. Helen began: “Delilah’s got a PlayStation. I’ve got her PlayStation for Christmas, so she’s over the moon.. I’ve loved panto so much, but like, it literally, like, took over everything, which is fine. But I really didn’t see the children much when I was working. And, like, my house is like, so obviously I’m very ADHD and everything’s just like, wow. Like, I just need to do some kind of organising.”
She went on: “It’s like, just, yeah, so I have a wash on, and I desperately my nails never look like this, like there was no point in having my nails got so grubby when I was doing panto, because I was the Evil Queen and I wore like black gloves. I’ve got no makeup on today. I just need to give my skin a rest.”
Sharing the finer details of her life with her kids, she revealed: “What I find, probably, like the most difficult is probably with Matilda, because it’s just like, I feel like she’s the eldest. So me and her dad broke up when she was seven, and I feel like Delilah is just so oblivious she doesn’t care. Charlie doesn’t care he was one. But Matilda is sensitive, and she takes everything very much in. And every single time that I get her back, she’s in a mood with me. She’s really moody. She’s really sassy.”
Helen went on: “I expect it because I know it’s what it’s like, and I think it’s almost like she feels like I’m kind of disowning her in a way, when I’ve not got her, and it’s not. Regardless of mine and her dad’s relationship, I always want her to have a relationship with the Father, because I think that’s good for her.
“And regardless that everything goes on, I always tell her that her dad loves her and that she must love her daddy, you know, like, and they, you know, it’s totally separate.”
Helen then went on to reveal she is planning to get her daughter a phone so they can communicate when she is at her dad’s house. She explained: “I said to her, I was like, ‘Did you want mummy to FaceTime you?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah, I did.’ So we’re getting her a phone anyway. She wants to go choose it, and so we’re gonna go do that.”
Helen then went on to explain she planned to spend the rest of her day catching up on admin and reading her scripts for an upcoming project. Earlier this month, fans were shocked when Helen publicly slated her ex-partner after he missed Charlie’s nativity – as he instead headed to the Middle East.
Taking to social media at the time, Scott shared an array of snaps from his weekend at the Formula 1 in Abu Dhabi, which included views of the race course, drinks with friends and a yacht. He captioned the post: “What a weekend-Abu Dhabi F1”
But Helen raged over the sporty snaps – re-posting them on her own Instagram Stories feed, and launching allegations at her ex. She swiftly reposted his picture and wrote: “You really are a piece of s*** @scotty_sinclair how dare you not turn up to Charlie’s nativity”. She followed the dig with a picture of her and Charlie and said he was the ‘best boy’.
Source: Mirror
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