Helen Flanagan has candidly opened up about her new relationship after revealing that her boyfriend has moved out. Following her high-profile breakup with Scott Sinclair after 13 years together, Helen has been navigating life as a single mum to her three children.

Just when it seemed she was happily settling into life with divorced dad Robbie Talbot, the 34 year old ex-Coronation Street star has divulged the reason behind his departure from her Lancashire abode. Their romance ignited after connecting on the exclusive celebrity dating app Raya last year, and she had been seeing him since. Yet Helen, who had her stint on Celebrity Go Dating amidst her time with Robbie, has now laid bare the true cause for his exit in a new interview with The Sun.

She told the outlet: "I don't want to say I think this is forever, because it puts too much pressure on us. I'd asked him to stay for a while, because I often get quite scared in the house on my own and feel safer with a man there."

Concern for her children's well-being has also influenced her decision-making. Helen added: "But Matilda is very sensitive and a proper daddy's girl, and she struggles with not seeing Scott as often as she'd like. I always think about how she feels when she misses her dad, and having my boyfriend there maybe doesn't help her."

Discussing the end of her relationship with former flame Scott, the celebrity disclosed that their connection had waned over time. In a revealing chat on Charlotte Dawson's Naughty Corner podcast last year, Helen confided: "I still love him very much, I care about him deeply, but we don't like each other.

"We don't like each other at all, we don't get on. I do know that Scott - he'd never admit it - cares about me too and he does love me," she further elaborated. This admission came shortly after she updated her followers about her battle with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) on Instagram.

Diagnosed with PMDD in 2023, the mother of three has been open about the severe mental anguish she suffers before her period, sometimes feeling so overwhelmed she couldn't function.

The NHS defines PMDD as an extreme kind of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), affecting a minority of women. The former actress opened up, confessing: "My PMDD has been a lot more manageable recently and I'll later in caption say somethings that help me control it. I always feel like I have four personalities in one month and any boyfriend I've ever had knows how bad my PMDD can be x."

She also described her ordeal with PMDD, sharing that she suffers from "intense symptoms for about 10 days", which include severe depression, feelings of sadness, hopelessness, worthlessness, anxiety, and 'crippling' OCD'.

Helen elaborated on her struggles, saying: "The Luteal phase for me can be the very worst. I used to have very bad intense symptoms for about 10 days, severe depression- sadness, hopelessness, worthlessness, anxiety/ ocd- ocd so crippling I thought I was going mad, exhaustion, brain fog. Now I get about 4 days before my period where I don't feel myself mentally. I also get severe bloating before my period where I can pass off at being pregnant.

"I also am always so desperate to come on my period as I know how much happier I will feel when I bleed and I will just feel more able to cope with anything life throws at me and feel I have my sanity back x. I had this from being about 16 but never really knew what it was x".

Continuing her candid disclosure, she added: "I've been prescribed sertraline before for my PMDD but it didn't work for me x (just sharing my personal experience here, we are all different and great if sertraline works for you).

"It just made me feel angry which isn't me at all. I then tried Yasmin the contraceptive pill to help control my pmdd and that really didn't work for me (again great if it works for you I think we all react differently to things)".

"It made me feel really sick (I had hyperemesis gravidum in all pregnancies so very sensitive to hormones) and I just felt low on it and not myself," she expressed, before adding: "I also took medication for adhd for years, that I ended up being really poorly on so I was really put off medication so wanted to go though a more natural route as I didn't feel I had much choice x (also again if medication works for you, for some people it really does that's great, just sharing personal experience) x."