Former Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan has returned to social media following a short absence with a delightfully shady meme aimed at the men in her life.
The snarky post featured a scene from Disney’s classic animated film, Sleeping Beauty. The Prince is captured asking Aurora: ‘Do you trust me?’. Aurora then replies: ‘No, I stopped trusting men a long time ago.’
Burn.
She followed the meme with adorable pictures with her children, with the entire family having recovered from a sickness bug. Helen went on to explain that her social media absence was related to an episode of PMDD.
Helen then explained that she had been quiet on social media because she has had a lot going on and been dealing an episode of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.
PMDD, believed to be suffered by between 5 to 8% of women in the UK, is a chronic hormone-related mood disorder that causes emotional and physical symptoms before a period.
‘Been so quiet on insta recently. Had a lot going on so didn’t feel like coming on insta and my PMDD has been so bad and all the kids were poorly and so was I with a sickness bug for days. So joyful’ she posted.
Helen has had a rather turbulent time of it recently. At the beginning of the year, she was hit with a driving ban back following speeding offences, which she had previously blamed on her then-boyfriend, footballer Robbie Talbot, who she’s since broken up with.
The two met when they both appeared on Channel 4’s Celebs Go Dating, though life events got in the way of their fledgling relationship.
They’d previously briefly lived together when Robbie briefly moved into her home, though Helen ended the arrangement after realising it was negatively impacting her children.
‘I’d asked him to stay for a while, because I often get quite scared in the house on my own and feel safer with a man there’ she previously told The Sun.
‘But Matilda is very sensitive and a proper daddy’s girl, and she struggles with not seeing Scott as often as she’d like. I always think about how she feels when she misses her dad, and having my boyfriend there maybe doesn’t help her.’
She later opened up about her bouts with anxiety following her children leaving to spend part of their school holidays with their dad.
Helen said: ‘I really, really struggle. I really struggle when they go away and I only like them going away if I’m doing something… I’m suffering really badly with anxiety at the moment’ through tears in a clip she posted to Instagram.
Helen grew up before Coronation Street fans eyes, taking on the role of Rosie Webster when she was just ten years old, before departing in 2018, ahead of the birth of her third child, son Charlie.
She’s previously expressed interest in returning to her iconic role, telling OK magazine: ‘I would never say never when it comes to Corrie but the filming schedule could be quite intense for my little boy at the moment, I’d love to return at some point.’
Appearing on Lorraine, she reiterated: ‘I would love to go back to Coronation Street. I really want Rosie to come back with loads of kids and just cause chaos and just fob them off with Sally’ she added.
However, she later confirmed to the Express that the reason she’d yet to return was due to the show not asking her: ‘‘I’d absolutely love to, but they haven’t invited me back, I suppose they’d need to ask me!’
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Helen’s alter ego, Rosie, was central to some major storylines during her time on the soap. She delivered comedy when mum Sally (the ally) (Sally Dyvenor) turned momager, leading to conflict with Ken Barlow (William Roache), who misspelled her name in play reviews.
Rosie Wobster and Dosie Webster are still iconic.
She also briefly became a goth, later beginning an affair with her unhinged school teacher (and accidental serial killer), John Stape (Graeme Hawley). The affair was finally exposed on Christmas Day that year.
Following the destruction of his personal and professional life, John kidnapped Rosie and held her hostage for weeks in his grandmother’s attic.
Years later, lightning struck twice, as, following his reveal as a serial killer, John kidnapped Rosie for a second time in order to force her to testify for his wife, Fiz Brown (Jennie McAlpine).
She later became a model, departing for Miami to become a star, before returning to the street as a drugs mule, her final departure came when she left the street again to pursue further modelling opportunities.
