Emotional Helen Flanagan reveals devastating moment daughter, 9, told her she wanted to stay with her dad

The Sun

22-05-2025

HELEN Flanagan has revealed the devastating moment her daughter told her she wanted to stay with her father instead of her.
The mum-of-three shares her children with her ex-partner, footballer Scott Sinclair.
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Helen, 34, sat down on the Elle Sera podcast hosted by Elissa Corrigan to talk all things motherhood, career and about her Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) diagnosis.
The Natural hormone balancing supplement Elle Sera has been helping the star deal with her PMDD by alleviating her symptoms to which she has been battling with for years.
The former Corrie star, opened up about her relationship with her children revealing that at one point her eldest daughter Matilda, 9, had told her she wanted to stay with her dad.
It's been three years since Helen split from her ex Scott after 13 years together.
The actress shared how she likes to allow her children to make their own choices and continues to be supportive when it comes to co-parenting.
She began: ' With me I feel like I'm quite a free spirit so I kind of feel with my children, I like to bring them up in a way where they, within reason obviously, make their own choices.
'So I said to Matilda, what do you want to do for Easter? and she was like, 'I want to go the whole time with my daddy'.
'Which, you know, obviously, I've always been supportive even though me and her dad aren't together and I'd like to think of how she feels and try and encourage a nice relationship with her dad.
'But sometimes that can be hard as well, because it's like, oh, you know... and then sometimes even though I'm doing a lot.
"I do have my children the majority of the time, sometimes if we have little squabbles, maybe hormones and everything, it's 'Oh, I want my daddy and I'm thinking "Oh Wow".
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Host Elissa chimed: " They don't mean it though."
To which Helen responded: "No but Delilah and Charlie I feel like they're a bit more like for mummy but Matilda I think she loves her dad."
Last year the actress revealed the real reason behind her and Scott's split admitting that 'we don't like each other'.
Speaking on Charlotte Dawson's Naughty Corner podcast, she said: "I still love him very much, I care about him deeply, but we don't like each other.
"We don't like each other at all, we don't get on. I do know that Scott - he'd never admit it - cares about me too and he does love me."
Helen continued: "The last time I saw him, I thought it was quite funny, I was taking the p*** out of him because he had a bucket hat on. I think he was trying not to laugh."
However, it seems the pair are back on good terms with Helen going on to support her ex-fiance watching him play for Bristol Rovers at Wigan with her kids back in January.
Helen has now moved on with boyfriend Robbie Talbot, 45, who she first introduced to the world on the Celebs Go Dating last year.
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