Helen Flanagan has opened up about her relationship with former Celtic star Scott Sinclair.
The 32-year-old Coronation Street actress was in a relationship with the ex-Hoops winger from 2009 until 2022, and they share three children - Matilda, Delilah and Charlie.
Ahead of appearing on I'm a Celebrity South Africa, Helen revealed that their breakup was very difficult and she continued to wear her ring to avoid speculation.
She told OK!: “He’s a very private person, while I’m an open book. But we were together for 13 years – we both needed to deal with the breakup.
“I did wear my engagement ring when I was in the jungle. We’d only just broken up, and I didn’t want everyone to be asking, ‘Where’s your ring.’
“I didn’t want to talk about it… I wanted to keep it private for the kids, I didn’t want to be talking about it on the show. I did find that difficult because I had all that going on in my head."
She added that they were in the midst of planning their wedding when the relationship came to an end.
She said: “We had to cancel things. We were far along with the planning…
“You don’t spend all your twenties with someone, have three children and not have a good relationship and care about them and love them.
"When you have that with someone, no one – nothing – can take away what we had. I’ll always love him and he’ll always love me, you just sometimes don’t work any more.
“It will always be really special. But I don’t regret anything. I have three perfect children.”
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