Coleen Nolan has opened up about the heartbreaking decision she and her family had to make by putting her mum into a care home.
The Loose Women star’s mum Maureen, died in 2007 aged 81 after a five-year battle with dementia. Coleen and her five siblings were forced to put Maureen in a care home after it got too dangerous for her to be left by herself.
And this week, Coleen recalled the vile trolling she and her family received after putting Maureen into the care home, with Coleen revealing they ‘cried every night’ over the decision.
Coleen opened up about her ‘regret’ on Loose Women (Credit: ITV)
Coleen Nolan on ‘hardest decision’
On Loose Women on Tuesday (April 28) Coleen was joined by Ruth Langsford, Judi Love and Janet Street-Porter. The conversation soon turned to the topic of “have you experienced care home guilt?”
Coleen then bravely opened up about her own experience. She said: “I think it’s probably the hardest decision me and my family made with my mum.
“You know, we looked after her as long as we could, you know, between us. She wanted to stay in a sheltered accommodation, but then that became where it was just too dangerous.
“You know, she was leaving electric kettles on a gas hob and not even noticing, and my brother would go around and there was smoke, and then I’d have her during the day, and then my sister would have her at night.”
Coleen went on: “More and more and more it was getting really, really difficult. You know, she’d get up at three in the morning and we’d have to put double locked doors because she’d think it was daytime and just wander, you know, all those things.”
The sisters put their beloved mum in a home (Credit: SplashNews.com)
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