Overview

• Helen Flanagan said on Instagram that she had a breakdown and that she hates co-parenting with ex-fiancé Scott Sinclair.
• She reported suffering from bad anxiety and described finding it difficult when her three children are away from her.
• Flanagan explained that her parents picked up Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and Charlie, three, before the children went to their dad.
• She said the children spend part of school holidays with their father and that she plans to manage her anxiety with exercise, rest, friends and back-to-school preparation.
• Earlier, she defended a revealing Manchester Pride outfit and her cosmetic surgery, pushing back at mum-shamers who questioned her as a parent.