Helen Flanagan was simply an adolescent when her character, Rosie Webster, within the ITV cleaning soap was groomed and kidnapped by her instructor.

Helen Flanagan was simply nine-years-old when she joined Coronation Avenue as Rosie Webster, the eldest daughter of Sally and Kevin. The mum-of-three, now 35, was 16-years-old within the ITV cleaning soap when her teen character Rosie was groomed by instructor John Stape, performed by Graeme Hawley, who was later uncovered as a serial killer.

Rosie was then kidnapped and held hostage by Stape, after the affair was uncovered and he was sacked. Reminiscing on these scenes in an interview with the Mirror, Helen mentioned: “Was it morally proper that I used to be anticipated to parade about in my knickers like some mad nymphomaniac once I was nonetheless simply an adolescent?

“Alison King, who performs Carla Connor, as soon as kicked off within the inexperienced room, saying how disgusting it was that they have been sexualising me once I was a younger lady. I didn’t totally comprehend what she was speaking about on the time. I do now. I get it.

“I needed to do kissing and bed room scenes with a person quite a bit older than me. Clearly the actor [Graeme Hawley] was pretty, however I don’t suppose it will occur now. While you’re 16 you don’t actually know what’s occurring and I used to be simply comfortable to get the massive storylines.

“However I had scenes as Rosie which didn’t at all times sit comfortably with me. I felt minging post-shoot. All the things has modified now, which I am glad about. They wouldn’t write it in fairly the identical means all these years later and for the reason that Me Too motion.”

She compares enjoying Rosie to her present position of Catherine, who’s the youngest of three sisters, within the Shelagh Stephenson play The Reminiscence of Water, which opens right now at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre. She now has an intimacy coordinator who ensures she is snug with every thing.

Talking of her Corrie expertise, she mentioned: “Again then you definately simply acquired on with it.”

Helen mentioned she finds her sexuality empowering, so long as it is on her personal phrases.

She defined: “I publish horny footage. I work for various lingerie manufacturers. I take pleasure in that. I wish to really feel horny.

“I wish to really feel empowered – and in management. That’s the distinction.

“I’ve turned as much as some shoots which I didn’t know can be so ‘horny’, considering it will be unprofessional to object and been in tears.”

Nevertheless, throughout current years, Helen’s life off digicam has introduced in additional consideration than her profession.

The mum-of-three says her footballer ex Scott Sinclair, 36 who she shares her three youngsters with, has damaged her coronary heart yet again after he made the choice to promote their household house.

Helen not too long ago hailed the previous Celtic star as a “d***head”. She added: “I’ll at all times love Scott, however he’s actually let me down.”

The couple break up in 2022, after 13 years collectively. Nevertheless, Helen nonetheless lives within the £1M household house in Belmont, Bolton, with their youngsters Matilda, 10, Delilah, seven, and Charlie, 4.

She mentioned: “His choice to promote the household has damaged my coronary heart. His cause for promoting is monetary, as he isn’t presently signed to a soccer membership, but it surely makes me offended when he spends cash on fancy holidays and fixed journeys to Dubai.

“Scott has different properties he might promote, too – his mom lives in a home much like mine and but that hasn’t been put up on the market.

“I fear about my future and my safety. I’ve to work continually to make ends meet. He’s the daddy of my youngsters, however their dad’s a rich man, you understand?”

In her debut e book, Head & Coronary heart: Break-ups, breakdowns and being Rosie, she says of Scott: “I used to be with him for 13 years, he was my complete 20s. We do not converse, we do not talk in any respect. I do discover it simply actually unhappy. I by no means wished it to be this manner.

“As a girl, I’ve needed to be sturdy. And that is me having my voice. I’ve upset the apple cart, however why ought to I preserve quiet? What I’d need Matilda to do. I would really like Matilda to have her voice.”