EXCLUSIVE: ITV actress Helen Flanagan has opened up about her traumatic teenage years as she was really “picked on” at school due to her Rosie Webster Corrie fame
Coronation Street’s Helen Flanagan was forced to move schools when she was younger as she was severely bullied by her class mates.
The Rosie Webster star first joined the ITV cast in 2000 as when she was nine and left the show in 2012. She then briefly came back in 2017 before exiting in 2018 to go on maternity leave.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Star at the WhichBingo Awards, Helen opened up about her teenage years and how she found them difficult as she prepares to choose a new school for her eldest daughter, Matilda.
Helen told us: “Picking a secondary school for my little girl can be quite daunting because I remember I did struggle with a lot of bullying as well in my first school because I was of Coronation Street.
“I’m naturally quite a soft person as well and I did really really get picked on. My parents then moved me to a private girls’ school but when then I was only ever really there half the time.
“But I got extra support and I did tutors as well at Corrie. I had to be in education until I was 16 and had to do four hours a week.”
Helen revealed she spent time in class with three of her younger co-stars at the time, but confessed to enjoying the experience and feeling like a a “geek”.
The TV star added: “I think I was the only one who was a bit of a geek out of the Corrie lot. It was me, Brooke Vincent, Jack P Shepherd and Richard Fleeshman. But I actually did quite like it.
“But because I got picked on an awful lot, this is now why as a mum, I worry. My little girl she is a sweetie and soft like me, but you don’t want to put your insecurities onto your children.”
Helen has been thinking back to her school days recently as she is in the midst of moving homes and wants to make sure she picks the right place for her kids and has decided to move closer to the father of her three kids, Scott Sinclair.
The Corrie actress shares her three kids with Scott – Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and son Charlie, four. Helen and her footballer ex, 36, split in 2022.
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