Anne Nolan discusses family rift
Anne Nolan was left emotional as she opened up about her four-year fallout with her sister that "broke us apart". During Tuesday’s episode of Lorraine Kelly’s ITV hit breakfast show, host Christine Lampard was joined by Anne, 73, as she spoke about the new chapter in her autobiography titled, New Beginnings.
Christine pointed out: “New Beginnings. So this was first released last year but you just keep wanting to add to it.” Anne explained: “Yeah so I just wrote a new chapter, it was actually put away in a drawer for two months then my manager was like ‘Why don’t you finish it’ I’m very lazy but I just thought, 'Ok'.”
She added: “I wanted it to be a life story and not just a show business story so I had to put the good, the bad, and the ugly into it and that’s what I did.”
Christine asked: “You say the good, the bad, and the ugly and you talk about family rifts, which unfortunately we know about, and also wanting to build that up again and it was sadly Bernie passing away that brought you all back together.”
Anne became emotional as she revealed: “I wrote a letter before Bernie passed, I wrote a letter to my sisters and said ‘For our extended family and our children can we heal this rift?'"
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She continued: “Especially at the time it was all silly and I thought you know we all learn from the past and we live for today and look forward to the future so we need to forget it and we have.
“It was the first time in our whole lives we had never fallen out and not spoken to each other so that was the showbiz side that broke us apart and it was not worth it. We are just as close now as we have been.”
Elsewhere in the show have a health update after being diagnosed with stage three breast cancer as she confirmed that she has since been given the ‘all clear’.
She replied: “I am so lucky, I had my first cancer in 2000, I had my chemotherapy, radiotherapy and an operation.
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“After six months of chemo, I was fine, then 20 years later almost to the day, it came back again in a different breast.”
She added: “I’m happy to say that, I’m clear. I’ve got another year before I’m actually discharged. But I’m clear of cancer at the moment thank goodness. I count myself really, really lucky.”
Lorraine airs weekdays at 9am on ITV.
