Helen Flanagan’s Boyfriend Moves Out After Sweet Start – And She Gets Real About Life, Love, and PMDD

Helen Flanagan has opened up in a refreshingly honest way about her relationship highs and lows, revealing that her boyfriend has moved out after living with her for a while. After her split from Scott Sinclair – the father of her three children and her partner of 13 years – Helen’s been navigating single mum life with Matilda, 9, Delilah, 6, and Charlie, 4, while also trying to figure out what’s next in love.

Helen, 34, met Robbie Talbot, a divorced dad of two, on the celebrity dating app Raya last year, and things got serious fairly quickly. But now, she’s explained why he’s no longer living in her Lancashire home, even though they’re still together, reported the Mirror.

“I don’t want to say I think this is forever because it puts too much pressure on us,” she told The Sun. She admitted she originally asked him to move in because she felt anxious being alone in the house. “I often get quite scared in the house on my own and feel safer with a man there.”

But ultimately, her kids come first – and that’s where things started to shift. Helen shared that Matilda, her eldest, is particularly sensitive and really misses spending time with her dad. “Matilda is very sensitive and a proper daddy’s girl… having my boyfriend there maybe doesn’t help her,” she said, clearly torn between her own needs and her daughter’s feelings.

Helen’s been candid about her difficult breakup with Scott, too. On Charlotte Dawson’s Naughty Corner podcast, she admitted, “I still love him very much… but we don’t like each other. We don’t like each other at all, we don’t get on.” Still, she believes he cares about her deep down, even if he’d “never admit it.”

And that’s not all she’s dealing with. Helen also recently shared a raw update on her ongoing battle with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). Diagnosed in 2023, she described how it affects her mentally each month, saying it’s like having “four personalities” in one cycle.

“My PMDD has been a lot more manageable recently,” she said, adding that she’ll share what’s helped her. But it hasn’t been an easy road. For around 10 days each month, she described struggling with severe depression, anxiety, OCD, and exhaustion. “I used to feel like I was going mad.”

She’s tried medication in the past – sertraline and the contraceptive pill Yasmin – but they didn’t work for her. After some tough experiences, she’s leaning more towards natural approaches now, saying she just wants to feel like herself again.

Through it all, Helen’s openness is striking – and a reminder that even when things look picture-perfect on the outside, real life is always more complicated.