Coleen Nolan has opened up about 'dreading' her drunk father coming home as a child.
The Loose Women panelist revealed this painful chapter in her life as she chatted during a segment called Life Before Loose on the ITV chat show.
Coleen, the youngest of the family singing group the Nolans, admitted to being terrified of her dad Tommy coming home on a Saturday evening and 'starting an argument' with her late mum Maureen.
In 2008 her sister Anne went public about being sexually abused by her dad in her autobiography Anne's Song.
Speaking on Loose Women Coleen, from Wilmslow, said: "He never drank during the day. He wasn't a from when he got up type of drinker.
"When he went out, and certainly to the clubs because he was really, really popular and everybody loved my dad, he used to drink brandy.
"I loved him until he’d had too much to drink and then I found him scary. Because he was quite argumentative when he was drunk.
"On a Saturday I used to have that dread of seven or eight o'clock thinking 'oh he'll be home soon' because I'd know he'd come in looking for an argument with my mum."
Coleen, 54, says to this day she has 'drink phobia' and reverts back to feeling the way she did aged four or five when someone's personality changes through alcohol.
Singer Tommy died in 1998 aged 73.
