Nadine Coyle denies she was ever pals with Cheryl – despite being bridesmaid at her wedding to Ashley Cole
NADINE Coyle felt as if she was never good friends with her Girls Aloud bandmate Cheryl despite being a bridesmaid at her wedding.
The group, who were formed on television series Popstars: The Rivals, split five years ago and Nadine was by Cheryl’s side as she married her footballer ex-husband Ashley Cole in 2006.
But she has now said they never really got along, with comedian Keith Lemon asking her of her band during an appearance on his show Celebrity Juice: “I heard that you fell out?”
Nadine replied: “There was no falling out, there was just no friendship to begin with.”
The singer has previously opened up the relationships between her, Cheryl, Sarah Harding Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh to The Sun.
She said: “It was fine at the start but there’s always politics in any band. It just happened that I always got more vocals than everybody else, so in terms of people wanting their voice heard, that wasn’t happening.
“It made people, very bitter. They didn’t like that. It’s so sad for me to have to admit this stuff now because for so long, there’s the band, and you want everybody to think we’re best friends and we have pillow fights and, you know, drink milkshakes.”
“That’s what I wanted it to be. I really, really wanted that to be, but it just wasn’t how it was. We’re all very, very different characters.”
Nadine launched a solo career after Girls Aloud split in 2013 but she recently announced she has cancelled her UK and Ireland comeback tour, revealing "it is not meant to be".
The former Girls Aloud star, 32, was due to perform seven shows in May but admitted "it has become impossible to achieve what we had wanted to do".
In a statement on her website she wrote: "Hi guys, I am so sad to say I’m not able to do the tour at this time.
"I am so sorry and really wish things were different but for many reasons it is not meant to be.
"You deserve the best show possible and with such big venues and very little dates it was becoming impossible to achieve what we had wanted to do.
"Everything is a lesson & this is definitely one for me. Thank you for your continued love & support!!!"
Nadine had been due to tour to use the shows to promote her self-titled EP Nadine, which was released earlier this year.
It is unclear whether she will be rescheduling the tour, which featured sold-out concerts in Birmingham and Belfast.
Speaking to The Sun's Bizarre column about the now-cancelled tour dates in February, she said: "I love the Girls Aloud songs and get messages from fans asking to hear them performed live again.
"So this is giving them what they want.
"This tour is gonna be one big party night out. All the hits the fans love plus the new songs I’ve been working on over the last few years.
"I literally can’t wait to get out back on the road again."
The mum-of-one also opened up to The Sun On Sunday's Fabulous magazine last month about drifting apart from her former band mates.
“It wasn’t toxic,” she insists.
“I just didn’t see them.
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"We all had our own dressing rooms and we’d just meet up to go on stage. If it had been toxic or horrendous I don’t think I’d have been able to do it.
"I’d have been like: ‘You’re all right, I’ll find another job, thank you.’”
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