HELEN Flanagan has revealed she thought she was being drugged and feared her kids would be taken away from her following her split from ex-fiance Scott Sinclair.
The former Coronation Street actress opened up on the breakdown she experienced after parting ways with the footballer in 2022 after 13 years together.
She told The Mirror: “It was the worst time that I’ve ever struggled with my mental health.”
Helen, who is on medication for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), believes she experienced an adverse reaction to her prescription drugs which fuelled the feelings.
“He really wasn’t playing fair,” she said of Scott’s behaviour at the time.
“So I had quite a lot of financial stuff going on as well and the stress of solicitors. I was also totally heartbroken after David Haye.
“It just all became too much and I began to experience psychosis,” she said of the post-break-up breakdown.
“I thought I was being watched, filmed, hunted, possibly even drugged, I was seeing things that weren’t there.
“It was really frightening – I thought my kids were going to be taken away, the nursery got involved,” she added.
“I do think the medication was really bad for me, but I became quite addicted to it.”
Helen shares three kids with Scott – Matilda, ten, Delilah, seven, and Charlie, four.
The Celebs Go Dating star credited her parents and therapists as helping her to get through the dark time.
Her relationship with ex Scott continues to remain strained, with Helen recently taking several public swipes at the father of her children.
Just last week, The Sun reported how Helen was being forced out of her £1million family home by her ex.
A friend of Helen’s said: “Scott pays for the house and all the bills and he’s decided a six-bedroom place is way too big for Helen on her own with the kids.
“But Helen doesn’t want to move and is digging her heels in. She loves the place, the kids are settled at the local school and her mum and dad live around the corner.
In wake of the news, the lingerie model branded Scott “a d***head” in a new interview with the Daily Mail, confessing that the two have a “very bad relationship”.
“We only communicate through my father now. There is so much worse I could say,” she told the publication.
Over Christmas, Helen was also left furious after she spotted photos of Scott at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
She publicly hit out on her Instagram Stories: “You really are a piece of s***. How dare you not turn up to Charlie’s nativity.”
At the time, the former soap star was playing the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Liverpool‘s M&S Bank Arena.
Helen admitted she now takes jobs she usually wouldn’t do to pay the bills and that she feels “mum guilt” at leaving her kids to work.
“So, I can’t forgive Scott for stealing a lot of my time with my children. I resent him for that.”
Helen is expected to dish more on her break-up with Scott in her new book Head And Heart: Break-ups, Breakdowns and Being Rosie, which is released tomorrow.