Former Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan was at Aintree today looking stunning in a Karen Millen dress.
In an interview with the ECHO, the actress shared her love for Liverpool – and opened up about her recent struggles with mental health. Helen said: “I love Liverpool – I just think it’s a really friendly city, I think it’s really special. It’s just really fun, everybody’s up for a laugh and it’s a great city.
“I love the day and I feel like at Aintree as well, the weather just gets so much warmer after. It’s getting the girls together, I just think it’s a nice northern day.”
Asked about her mental health struggles, Helen said: “I think I’ve always been honest on my social media, I’ve always been quite open, and that’s why I’ve always had a good following – I’m connected with other women.
“I think it’s good just to be honest.”
In March, Helen was set to star as Miss Scarlett in the stage tour of Cluedo, but she pulled out of the show before the tour started and took a break from her social media channels.
“I felt really not great in my head over Christmas and I didn’t really feel that much different when I took the kids away for new year. I had a lot of difficult things going on things I just can’t talk about on Instagram.
“I felt terrible, so I was due my theatre tour which I was excited about so when I came back from holiday I thought it was best for me to take some medication so I’d feel better and be able to cope better with being a working single mum of three and I was emotionally struggling with the break up from the father of my kids but I had a really bad reaction though to the medication (an ADHD medication) and it sent me into a psychosis for a few days which I didn’t know I was in.
