Helen Flanagan thought 'her kids would be better without her' during devastating breakdown
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Helen Flanagan confessed she thought her children would 'be better without her' during her mental breakdown. Following the end of the festive season, the soap actress took to her Instagram page to share a picture of her Christmas celebrations from 2023 and and her New Year's celebration from that year. The Christmas picture showed her looking exhausted as she held a peace sign up to her face. Her hair was tousled and the star rocked a black sweatshirt as she took the selfie in a darkened room.
The New Year's celebration was worlds away as she celebrated with her children in Bali. Meanwhile, this year, instead of spending Christmas alone, she spent it with her children at her parents' house. Writing on Instagram, she she revealed she spent Christmas 2023 in bed before going to her mum's house for 'a few hours' as her dad 'was calling her'.
She 'had to be fair' as she told her ex-partner, Scott Sinclair, that he could have the children for the Christmas holidays as she wanted to take the kids to Bali for 10 days for New Year's Eve. The star said: "But it really hit me out of nowhere. I said to my friends before hand it’s just a day I’ll be fine. I had bad mental health. My love life was a shit show that year….
"I didn’t look after my my mental health or think. I felt so shit and sad. I felt like my whole life was f**ked up now and I had the perfect family. 13 years is a long time to be with someone. My whole 20s. I had a lot of family fall outs too and I also lost basically all my money. Me and Scott weren’t married we were engaged. My mental health was so bad I thought maybe my kids would be better off without me and maybe they would be better off with their dad as he’s more level headed than me. I love my kids more than words can say but when you are not well you’re not well.".
