Helen Flanagan has revealed her children’s nanny had to call her parents to come and take her children off her as a matter of urgency when she was having a psychosis episode.
The television star was diagnosed with psychosis after suffering a ‘bad reaction’ to her ADHD medication last year.
The TV personality shares Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and Charlie, three with ex-fiancé and Bristol Rovers player Scott Sinclair.
Speaking about it for the first time on the Mail’s The Life of Bryony podcast, she said: ‘I remember my nanny had to call my parents because I thought there was a man outside my house.
‘I had a very, very bad break in when I was twenty-two and there was three men that came into my house.
The star revealed her children’s nanny had to call her parents to come and take her children off her as a matter of urgency when she was having a psychosis episode
‘So when I was in my psychosis, I thought there was a man inside my house trying to break in my house with my kids.
‘And basically while I was driving home, I mean honestly, it’s horrendous, I could have killed someone, I was driving, and because I was so bad on this medication, I thought there was somebody in my boot, so I kept stopping my car all the time, because I can see someone jumping in my boot, because I was in a psychosis,
‘I thought I could see someone, but my nanny came, and my mum had to take the children away from me.’
Helen said she was then noted at her children’s nursery and that the hardest part was having to explain herself to the teacher that she was able to look after her children.
‘I think that was the hardest thing was to explain to the nursery teacher,’ she said.
‘I think she thought I was on drugs, that I was basically off my face on drugs.
‘And I had to explain to her that that I am a fit mum, I am a good mum.
‘I think that was just, I think that was just fucking s**t, to be honest.
‘My mum and dad looked after my kids for about a month, and then sometimes they would sleep at mine, sometimes they would sleep at my parents, just till I just got myself, like, really good again.
‘I couldn’t love my children anymore I literally took medication from a doctor that I thought was going to make me better and it just obviously reacted really badly.’
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