Corrie star Helen Flanagan reveals her new man has moved out, opening up about the impact of her relationship on her kids and the challenges she’s facing as a single mum

The couple have been together for a few months now

Helen Flanagan has opened up about her new relationship, revealing that her boyfriend has moved out. After her high-profile breakup with Scott Sinclair, her partner of 13 years, Helen has been navigating life as a single mum to Matilda, 9, Delilah, 6, and Charlie, 4.

But just as it seemed she had happily moved on with Robbie Talbot, a divorced dad of two, the former Coronation Street actress, 34, revealed why he is no longer living with her. The pair first crossed paths on the celebrity dating app Raya last year, and sparks flew almost immediately – and have since been together.

However, Helen, who recently appeared on Celebrity Go Dating while still involved with Robbie, has now opened up about the real reason he has packed up and left her Lancashire home. Speaking to The Sun, she admitted: “I don’t want to say I think this is forever, because it puts too much pressure on us.

“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 is a doting mum to her three children, Matilda, 9, Delilah, 6, and Charlie, 4.(Image: Helen Flanagan/Instagram)

Helen said she has also become concerned with how her children are adjusting to her new relationship. She said: “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 added.

Speaking about her breakup with former beau Scott, the star revealed that they had eventually grown distant. Last year, Helen opened up on Charlotte Dawson’s Naughty Corner podcast, saying: “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,” she added. It comes just days after she had given her followers an update on her ongoing struggle with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)on Instagram. The mum-of-three was diagnosed with PMDD in 2023 and has previously shared that the condition makes her ‘feel horrendous mentally before her period’ to such an extent that ‘she couldn’t cope’.

Helen and fiance Scott split in 2022(Image: Helen Flanagan/Instagram)

According to the NHS, the condition is a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) that affects some women. Opening up, the ex actress said: “My PMDD has been a lot more manageable recently and I’ll later in caption say somethings that help me control it. I always feel like I have four personalities in one month and any boyfriend I’ve ever had knows how bad my PMDD can be x.”

The actress went on to detail that she typically experiences ‘intense symptoms for roughly 10 days including severe depression, sadness, hopelessness, worthlessness, anxiety, and ‘crippling’ OCD’.

She further added: “The Luteal phase for me can be the very worst. I used to have very bad intense symptoms for about 10 days, severe depression- sadness, hopelessness, worthlessness, anxiety/ ocd- ocd so crippling I thought I was going mad, exhaustion, brain fog. Now I get about 4 days before my period where I don’t feel myself mentally. I also get severe bloating before my period where I can pass off at being pregnant.”

“I also am always so desperate to come on my period as I know how much happier I will feel when I bleed and I will just feel more able to cope with anything life throws at me and feel I have my sanity back x. I had this from being about 16 but never really knew what it was x”.

She went on to say: “I’ve been prescribed sertraline before for my PMDD but it didn’t work for me x (just sharing my personal experience here, we are all different and great if sertraline works for you) It just made me feel angry which isn’t me at all. I then tried Yasmin the contraceptive pill to help control my pmdd and that really didn’t work for me (again great if it works for you I think we all react differently to things)”.

“It made me feel really sick ( I had hyperemesis gravidum in all pregnancies so very sensitive to hormones) and I just felt low on it and not myself,” she said before she continued: “I also took medication for adhd for years, that I ended up being really poorly on so I was really put off medication so wanted to go though a more natural route as I didn’t feel I had much choice x (also again if medication works for you, for some people it really does that’s great, just sharing personal experience) x.”