Coleen Nolan to divorce husband of 10 years Ray Fensome after ‘hellish’ 12 months
The Loose Women star has called time on her marriage to musician Ray Fensom
COLEEN Nolan has announced she is divorcing her husband Ray Fensome after a "hellish" 12 months.
The Loose Women star has confirmed that her marriage of ten years is over and she has decided to end the relationship after "fighting with every fibre of her being" to make it work.
The Nolans star wrote in the : "Me and my husband Ray are divorcing.
"There is too much dividing me and Ray.
"We can’t go back. And my future is going to be very different to the one I’d imagined back then... The last 12 months have been pretty hellish."
The singer - who has sons Shane Jr, 29, and Jake, 25, with her ex-husband Shane Richie - admitted she believed she would “grow old” with the 60-year-old guitarist.
Coleen has spoken openly about the problems she has suffered in her marriage, and has finally decided to call time in an attempt to be happy again.
She said: "I deserve to be happy. Everyone does. And once you know your marriage is truly dead you need to make your peace with that, bury the past and move on.
"After 17 years together that’s what I’m about to do."
Last year Coleen spoke movingly about trying therapy to save her marriage.
She said on Loose Women: "It does work for a lot of people, if you’ve come to a bit of a rut, you have to be apart to appreciate what you’ve got.
"Sometimes you're not appreciating each other and taking each other for granted, and you think the grass is greener on the other side.
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"Actually having that time apart makes you realise 'you know what, I do want to be with that person', and at least when you go back, you know it's because you want to be and not because you feel you have to be. It's a nice feeling.
"I do think it works for a lot of people."
Unfortunately it didn't work for Coleen and Ray and she has now filed for divorce.
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