Coleen Nolan has revealed she phoned her ex Ray Fensome over fears he would be offended by her reasons for getting a divorce.
The former couple split in February 2018 after 17 years of marriage and they share daughter Ciara, 18.
Coleen made her revelation during a discussion about the divorce law reforms – which are set to end the “blame game” between couples – on Tuesday’s Loose Women.
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She told her fellow panellists: “We’d both agreed that the marriage has run its course, we were still friends, let’s just do it as nicely as possible.
“And you have to give your reasons as to why you want to divorce.
“I was saying to my solicitor, ‘We haven’t really got a reason, we’re just not getting on and we’ve fallen out of love.'”
She continued: “But you have to give a reason so it’s literally like going, ‘I’ll have that one’. But that wasn’t it, then you had to give five reasons. So it wasn’t just saying ‘irreconcilable differences’, you had to give five differences.
“So in the end I’m kind of making them up and then I’m phoning Ray up going, ‘Listen, you’re going to get this through the post because they have to send it to him on what I’m divorcing him on, and ‘please don’t take offense to it because I had to do it otherwise we can’t move forward.”
Coleen recently revealed she won’t marry again following her divorce.
Speaking to New! magazine, Coleen said, although she is open to dating, she’s “blissfully happy” by herself.
Asked if she’d ever be tempted to marry again, Coleen said: “No.”
Although she seemed to have a quick change of heart, leaving her options open as she said: “I’m saying that now, but maybe in two years I’ll be saying: ‘I’m about to get married for the third time!’
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“But no, if I met someone it would be lovely, but I’m blissfully happy on my own.”
Earlier this year, Coleen insisted that she and Ray are still “really good friends”.
She told OK! Magazine: “We make really good friends but not necessarily a great husband and wife.”
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