Coleen Nolan made a candid admission about how tough Father's Day is for her and her family, admitting she feels conflicted over whether she should mark the occasion every year, due to her late dad abusing her sister.
Coleen was back on the panel of the ITV show on Monday, joining host Ruth Langsford and co-stars Janet Street-Porter for the lunchtime programme's first edition of a new week. Ruth began the show by talking about Father's Day, telling her colleague that she has found it 'bittersweet' ever since her dad passed away.
The Loose Women presenter said it really warmed her heart to see all the photos and comments from people celebrating their dads on Sunday, while missing her own dad at the same time and it was then that Coleen interjected to say that every year she feels torn over how she should feel about Father's day,. given her family history.
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After Coleen's dad Tommy died in 1998, her older Anne bravely revealed a dark secret that he had abused her as a child, something Coleen discussed when she appeared as a guest on Piers Morgan's Life Stories in 2021. Opening up about how she felt at the time, Coleen told Piers: "I cried because there was an element of did he not love me because he hadn’t… I thought he must have loved Anne more and I felt revolted by myself,"
Coleen has also spoken about the fact that . whole her childhood was filled with happy memories,. her dad's heavy drinking really scared her.
Discussing him and how Father's Day hits a nerve on Loose Women, she told her co-stars: "It's really weird for me, because I always think about my dad, but it's hard for me to really celebrate Father's Day, in one way, because I feel guilty when I don't celebrate and I feel guilty if I do."
Elaborating, Coleen added: "Because obviously, things happened with my sister, you know, for her, he was abusive and stuff; but I never experienced that side of him or saw that side of him, so I have a lot of nice memories, she has a lot of bad ones.
"So, it's hard for me to really post anything, because I feel disloyal to her, but then there's an element when I feel a bit disloyal to him."
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