Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has admitted that she ‘didn’t want to get up’ following her sister Linda’s tragic death last year.
Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time in 2005 before being given the all-clear by doctors in 2011. Sadly, Linda’s cancer returned in 2017, just four years after her and Coleen’s sister Bernie died of the disease in 2013 at the age of 52.
The diagnosis arrived after doctors found signs of incurable secondary breast cancer on her pelvis. Linda went on to confirm in 2020 that the cancer had spread to her liver, before saying in 2023 that it had metastasised to her brain.
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The Nolans singer sadly passed away at the age of 65 on January 15 last year. Linda’s family and friends gathered for her funeral ten days later at St Paul’s Church in Blackpool.
Last month saw Coleen take to Instagram on the first anniversary of Linda’s passing to say she ‘loves and misses’ her sister every day.
On Monday (March 2), Coleen returned to the hit ITV panel show Loose Women to join her fellow panelists Christine Lampard, Nadia Sawalha and Gloria Hunniford. As usual, they discussed all the major talking points of the day.
During the episode, the group talked about Kelly Osbourne hitting back at online trolls over cruel comments about her appearance at the BRIT Awards over the weekend. Kelly attended the event with her mum Sharon to receive a special Lifetime Achievement award on behalf of Ozzy Osbourne.
“There is a special kind of cruelty in harming someone who is clearly going through something. Kicking me while I’m down, doubting my pain, spreading my struggles as gossip, and turning your back when I need support and love most.
“None of it proves strength; it only reveals and profound absence of compassion and character. I’m currently going through the hardest time in my life. I should not even have to defend myself. But I won’t sit here and allow myself to be dehumanised in such a way,” she said.
After talking about Kelly’s comments, Coleen proceeded to provide an insight into how she found going about day to day life following Linda’s death.
“When Linda died, that hit me like a ton of bricks. I didn’t know what to do with myself and I didn’t want to get up. I was forcing myself to do everything because actually inside I didn’t want to do anything.
“I didn’t want to speak to people, I didn’t want to laugh, I didn’t want to work and the only thing that helped me was instantly acknowledging it and saying I need help,” she said.
Coleen continued: “All my family were there and my kids were there and ‘you can talk to us’ and I thought no, I need professional help now. This needs professional help because I don’t know how to pull myself together, so I instantly got therapy.
“But then you feel guilty because I didn’t need therapy when Bernie… On social media, someone saw me smiling as I got out of the car at Linda’s funeral because they were smiling at me, all these people. The amount of trolls I got ‘look at her smiling at her sister’s funeral, making it all about her’.”
