Helen Flanagan has opened up on the reason she is selling her £1million family home following her split from her ex Scott Sinclair.
The Coronation Street star, 34, split from her footballer ex-fiance back in 2022, and they share three children – Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and Charlie, three – together.
Earlier this year, Helen told in court how she was ‘struggling financially’ before being banned from driving for six months after being caught speeding.
Now, Helen has set the record straight about her finances as she shared the sad reason why she has decided to sell her eight-bedroom £1million Cheshire mansion.
‘I’m not in a financial crisis. I’m moving because I really need a fresh start,’ she told OK! Magazine.
‘Scott surprised me with this house and it was always supposed to be our happy family home, and it wasn’t that.
Helen Flanagan has opened up on the reason she is selling her £1m home following her split from her ex Scott Sinclair (pictured with kids) Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and Charlie, three
The Coronation Street star, 34, split from her footballer ex-fiance back in 2022, and they share three children together
‘I like to be light-hearted and I hate to sound depressing, but there is a sadness in this house.’
The former soap star admitted it had been ‘a turbulent three years’ and that she wanted to start fresh with her children.
Helen hopes to move to London eventually, but for now, they are planning to stay where they are to avoid disrupting her kids’ education.
The soap star admitted that she will struggle to downsize from her lavish eight-bedroom house.
Speaking on The Declutter Hub podcast with Ingrid Jansen and Lesley Spellman, she insisted she was ‘down to earth’ but that moving would be hard.
I put loads of my savings into making it look really beautiful. It’s eight bedrooms which is hard to keep on top of – it’s a lot,’ she shared.
‘When we move I will struggle to downsize – I don’t want to not sounds down to earth. Bu it will feel weird. It will be more manageable for me.’
Helen split from Scott after 13 years together and then moved on with construction worker Robbie, 45, but they split in May and she now wants to be single.
The former soap star admitted it had been ‘a turbulent three years’ and that she wanted to start fresh with her children
Speaking to The Mirror earlier this week, she explained: ‘I’m concentrating on the kids, work, moving house and being with my friends.
‘I’m quite sensitive and struggle with dating. There’s always something with men. Now I want to be single a bit.
‘Robbie was very sweet and kind. He was older than me and cared about me.
‘Sometimes relationships just don’t work long term.’
Helen went on to admit that after Robbie’s daughter Carina and her daughter Delilah became ‘close’, she will be hesitant to introduce her children to anyone in the future.
Speaking on the Daily Mail’s The Life of Bryony podcast in March, just weeks before their split, Helen gushed over her relationship with Robbie.
She said: ‘He’s lovely. Everybody loves him. I just met him at a bar. I literally, I just, I could not stop laughing at this guy.’
The star previously admitted she was having to sell her home as after she was left ‘broke’ following her split from her ex fiancé Scott Sinclair in 2022
‘My boyfriend’s actually the funniest guy I’ve ever met. He’s got two kids and he’s, he’s really beautiful with my children.’
‘I think that’s what made me fall more in love with him because he’s so good with my mental health things and that’s the main thing for me that I need.’
‘I need someone that’s good for me mentally and emotionally, that’s my top thing and that’s what I’ve realised.’
‘No disrespect to the father of my children, I’ll always have that love for him, but he didn’t know how to cope with me or didn’t know how to do that, and not everybody does, but because the man that I’m with now really knows how to do that, it makes me happy.’
