On Tuesday’s instalment of Loose Women, the panel spoke about grief and how they deal with the loss of a loved one
Coleen Nolan made a heartbreaking admission during Tuesday’s instalment of the ITV show. It comes as the panel were discussing the anniversary of Friends actor Matthew Perry’s death.
As Kéllé Bryan explained her family have a massive celebration each year to remember her late nan, Ruth Langsford addressed Coleen. Speaking about her co-star’s late sister, Ruth said: “We know Col that Bernie loved a party and she was a party girl.”
Agreeing, Coleen called her sibling a “party animal” as she confessed Bernie would find any excuse to throw a party. On the anniversary of her birthday or indeed her passing, all my family get together and have a thing called a vodka mule.
“I don’t, I think it’s because when we all get together because she loved a party, so when we all get together at a party, it makes me miss her more.”
Coleen Nolan said she’d “never forget” her late sister Bernie
Coleen confessed it hits her when her family are together in a party gathering as it reminds her Bernie is no longer with them. The ITV star added with some humour: “She would’ve been at the forefront of that party and I don’t like vodka. She’s really really selfish to say vodka mule!”
She explained all of her family grieve in different ways and they all respect how they cope with Bernie’s death individually. Coleen added: “For me. It’s not, ‘Oh I like to have this thing that’s going to help me remember them’. Because I never, ever, from the day she died or my parents died, ever forgot. I’ll never forget.”
Coleen’s sister died from cancer in 2013
Coleen’s sister Bernie died in 2013 after suffering from breast cancer at the age of 52. The singer was diagnosed three years prior to her death and underwent chemotherapy and a mastectomy before being given the all-clear in 2012. However, shortly after she was told the cancer had returned and had spread to her brain, bones, lungs and liver.
Elsewhere during the discussion on Loose Women, Kelly Brook spoke about her father’s death and how she coped.
Kelly opened up about her dad’s death on the ITV show
When asked how to keep the memory of a lost loved one alive, Kelly replied: “For me, I lost my dad in 2007 and I feel like I’m only just coming to terms with it now.
“For me, having pictures up or a photo album, things like that I can only bring myself to look at them at certain times of the year. I don’t want a daily constant reminder. That’s definitely not for me.”
Kelly’s dad, Kenneth Parsons, died from cancer at the age of 57.
