I'm A Celebrity's Coleen Rooney left in tears on ITV show over painful family tragedy

Coleen Rooney was left in tears on Monday night's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, as she opened up about a painful tragedy that hit her family, with the death of her younger sister Rosie.

During Coleen's early time in the spotlight, she spoke often about younger sister Rosie, who her parents fostered. Rosie had a life-long battle with Rett syndrome, a condition which impacts brain development, causes mental and physical disabilities and affects an estimated 1 in 10,000 girls a year. Rosie sadly passed away in January 2013 aged just 14, having spent a lot of time in hospital, with her family, as her immune system deteriorated.

Releasing an emotional statement at the time, Coleen and world famous football husband Wayne Rooney said: "Throughout her life, she brought so much love and happiness to all our family and everyone who knew and met her. She was such a strong little girl and an inspiration to us all. We shall cherish forever the memories we have shared and the love she showed us each and every day of her life. As a family we are heartbroken, but we are blessed to have had her in our lives."

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Coleen discussed Rosie in her recent Disney+ documentary and ended up discussing her on Monday night's I'm A Celebrity,. after her co-star Barry McGuigan, viewed by some experts as the 'dark horse' of the new series, opened up on his daughter's death. The now 36-year-old told her co-stars: "Even when Rosie died, I kept it together for me mum and dad. She was 14 when she died, she’d be 26 now. It’s hard to lose a child, I’ve always said that… so we’re lucky to have what we’ve got.”

The touching moment came minutes after Coleen spoke about Wagatha Christie, telling her campmates: "hat was my worst nightmare to go to court. I felt ashamed to go to court. I felt like it was putting a show on for the whole world. I want to get it sorted without going to court. What got me, over the whole thing, was it became a bit of a joke and that’s really disappointing, it wasn’t a joke for me. No one knew the full story.”