Loose Women's Coleen Nolan said she "sobbed her heart" out as she shared her sister's deathbed request.
The panelist appeared on today's edition of the popular ITV programme alongside Ruth Langsford, Janet Street Porter and Kelle Bryan. They discussed how they responded to grief on the latest edition of the show.
Janet spoke about the benefits of scheduling an assigned time when you will allow yourself to grieve after you've lost a loved one. However, Coleen reflected on past experience and said it is difficult because you don't know when the emotion could hit you.
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Her Brookside star sister, Bernie, died in 2013 aged 52 from breast cancer. Coleen said she was helped by her sister's request to only grieve for two weeks after she died.
She said: "She said to us 'you can cry for two weeks and then get over yourselves and move on'. She actually said on her death bed 'I want you all to cry a lot for two weeks because I deserve it and then pull yourself together and get on with it.' It always pulled me through it."
However, Coleen said her sister's memory can sometimes be triggered at random moments. She added: "A year down the line, I remember sitting at traffic lights and something funny happened on the radio and my instant thought was I must text Bernie about that and it hit me again.
"All of a sudden, I'm sitting at the traffic lights sobbing my heart out. Just for a couple of minutes but just when you think it's ok, it hits you again. So it's really hard to put a time on it."
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