HELEN Flanagan has revealed a string of feuds in her new book including a Corrie ‘Mean Girl’ and a Brit TV legend who ‘despised her’.
The actress released her explosive memoir, Head & Heart, today and spilled the tea on the drama she has had to deal with both on and off camera during her career.
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Helen Flanagan has revealed a series of celebrity feuds in her new bookCredit: PA
Her return as Rosie Webster in 2017 was ruined by a Mean Girl, says HelenCredit: Rex Features
The star looked downcast as she was pictured today after her book’s releaseCredit: Splash
And it included one Coronation Street star who ruined her 2017 return as Rosie Webster with her ‘Mean Girl’ behaviour.
Writing in her new book, Helen said: “A lot had changed and the place felt quite different to the one I’d left behind five years before.
“There were cliques amongst the cast which seemed a bit exclusionary, and I was made to feel particularly uncomfortable by another actress who could be quite sarcastic and cold with me.
“Maybe her nose was out of joint because my return had attracted a fair bit of press attention – not something I could have helped – but I do think she had a false impression of me.
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“She’d once asked me something in the green room and got the wrong end of the stick because I was on the phone and so it looked like I’d ignored her. Perhaps she thought I was stuck up.
“The thing is, she was quite popular with the rest of the cast – a bit of a leader of the pack – and because she was unpleasant to me and had made it clear I wasn’t welcome, I’d end up sitting on my own a lot of the time in the canteen feeling quite left out.
“It was like a real-life Mean Girls when I think about it now. I can get on with everyone, but this actress just wasn’t very nice to me.”
Helen also claimed that another Corrie co-star, Anthony Cotton, left her in tears after making a cruel jibe about her medication use.
“The actor Antony Cotton, who played barman Sean Tully, once reduced me to tears when he took the mickey out of the fact I was on medication,” she wrote.
“‘Here comes Helen Flanagan,’ he said. ‘You hear her rattling before you see her.’ To him it was a joke for a few cheap laughs, but this was my life.
Helen also claimed that Anthony Cotton reduced her to tears with a nasty jibeCredit: Rex
Helen also revealed she had rowed with Ryan Thomas during her time on CorrieCredit: Rex Features
“I didn’t respond, I was too broken. Instead, I went to the toilets and bawled my eyes out.”
She also spoke about her feud with co-star and on-screen love interest Ryan Thomas.
As well as detailing behind-the-scenes feuds on the Coronation Street set, Helen, 35, also spoke about her time on Channel 5 reality show, Celebrity Super Spa.
The show aired in 2013 and followed six celebrities as they worked in a real-life spa in Liverpool.
Helen took part alongside Towie’s James Argent, celebrity chefs Rusty Lee and John Burton-Race, Shameless actor Jody Latham and Most Haunted’s Yvette Fielding.
Sadly, Helen and Yvette, 57, didn’t see eye-to-eye, with Helen revealing all in her book.
She wrote: “Yvette Fielding absolutely detested me, and made no secret of it.
“She even called me ‘evil’ at one point and gave an interview afterwards saying she didn’t know how she’d refrained from slapping me.
“Chill out Yvette! I wasn’t that bad.”
Helen Flanagan also revealed an unexpected feud with British TV star who ‘absolutely detested her’ on Celebrity Super SpaCredit: Channel 5
She named Yvette Fielding as the telly legendCredit: Channel 5
Helen concedes Yvette may have been going through a difficult time herself – with the star previously revealing she struggled in the menopause – and that she may have forgotten they were filming a ‘reality’ show.
She explained: “There would be plenty of manipulation by the programme makers in order to create the storylines and build tension.”
Helen then gave an example of how she was stopped from going on set on the first day, making her “late” as she said: “I quickly realised they’d kept me on purpose to p*** the others off.”
She continued: “Anyway, I came trotting in wearing this little pink uniform and my Louboutins and Yvette took an instant dislike to me.
“‘Oh, I don’t know who you think you are, swanning in here late.’ Like, fully disgusted at me.”
Helen then recalled going to an FHM party one night after filming wearing an Agent Provocateur dress.
She said: “When I arrived on set the next morning (and this was on camera) Yvette sneered, ‘I saw what you wore last night. Wasn’t very classy was it?’
“Er, no offence but Yvette Fielding was the last person I’d be taking fashion advice from.
“Maybe the producers had asked her to go for me so she was doing a job for them, but she was exactly the same off camera to me as she was on. Such an odd character.”
Helen’s book, Head & Heart: Break-ups, Breakdowns and Being Rosie, is available to purchase from today.
