Coleen Nolan admits ‘death is coming’ after ‘a lot of bad news’ and cancer tragedy

Loose Women panellist Coleen Nolan opened up on the death of her beloved sister Bernie as her sister Linda battles incurable cancer in her bones, brain and liver

Coleen Nolan made a frank admission about death live on This Morning, admitting: “It’s coming.”

The Loose Women star appeared on the ITV show to promote her new book A Hand to Hold, which deals with grief after losing her sister Bernie, while her other sister Linda battles incurable cancer in her brain, bones and liver. The Nolans lost their mother Maureen in 2007 after a tragic Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

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Anne has also battled cancer – and Coleen admitted it’s taught her that “nothing matters” and to “live life to the full”. Coleen admitted to hosts Sian Welby and Craig Doyle: “It’s just a topic that everyone’s terrified of, and yet it’s something we all have in common.

“Whether we like it or not… Hopefully not for many, many years, it’s coming to us all. And we need to be open about it because people grieve so differently – I’ve never met two people who grieve the same.”

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Coleen admitted death is the ‘one thing we have in common’

Coleen shared how she’s suffered “a lot of bad news” in a short space of time, and a “lot of loss”. She said: “I lost my mum and dad, I lost my sister-in-law, I lost Bernie, we lost Linda’s husband. My aunty then passed not so long ago, so there has been a lot of loss.”

But it was her sister Bernie who got her through, despite her tragic death at the age of just 52. Coleen said: “Bernie said, ‘You can cry for two weeks – a lot, because I deserve it. But then I want you to get up and carry on with it’.

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Coleen chatted about her new book on grief
“Two weeks down the line I still didn’t want to get up, I didn’t want to do anything, to be honest. But I kept hearing her go, ‘Come on now!’”

She added: “Bernie’s talk to me has pushed me through, because you do have to carry on. You’re fine for six months, and then out of the blue it just hits you again.

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“The biggest learning for me is that life has to go on, and it does go on. In actual fact – this is terrible – none of it matters. I used to get so stressed and down about things, but now I think, ‘I bet Bernie wishes she was here getting down about a tax bill or her next job’.

“It puts everything into perspective. I’m not scared to say no anymore. If I don’t want to do something, I just say no. Life’s too short.”