Loose Women's Coleen Nolan has 'a lot of bad news' as she warns 'death is coming'

Coleen Nolan opened up about the inevitability of death during a candid conversation on This Morning, confessing: "It's coming."

The Loose Women panellist was on the ITV programme to discuss her latest book 'A Hand to Hold', which touches upon the theme of grief following the loss of her sister Bernie and as her other sister Linda continues her fight against incurable cancer affecting her brain, bones, and liver. The Nolan family has faced significant loss, with their mother Maureen passing away in 2007 due to Alzheimer's.

Anne, another Nolan sister, has also faced cancer, leading Coleen to realise that "nothing matters" except living life fully. Speaking to hosts Sian Welby and Craig Doyle, Coleen expressed: "It's just a topic that everyone's terrified of, and yet it's something we all have in common."

She continued, acknowledging the universal nature of mortality: "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."

Coleen reflected on the personal losses she has endured, including the deaths of her parents, sister-in-law, Bernie, Linda's husband, and recently an aunt, describing it as "a lot of bad news" and "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," reports the Mirror.

Despite the pain, Coleen found strength in Bernie's words, sharing: "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'."

"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 further 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."

"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."