Frankie Bridge has told of how a school trip left her with anxiety throughout her childhood.
The former Saturdays singer has been honest about her mental health difficulties during her adult life, including when she was a part of the popular girl group.
However, speaking on March 11's Loose Women, Frankie spoke about how a trip to a war museum 'triggered something' which haunted her childhood, Manchester Evening News writes.
The mum-of-two's remarks came as the panel, including Kaye Adams, Judi Love and Nadia Sawalha, discuss a story which saw a school cause outrage among parents.
That is because they had used an educational display of a crime scene, featuring a doll of a child, to teach their students and some parents were unhappy with the move as they did not think it was suitable for children.
While Nadia at first said she thought it was a "creative" way of getting children involved in learning, she later changed her mind after hearing what her co-stars had to say on the subject.
Judi, who starred in Strictly Come Dancing last year, said she'd be one of the parents outraged by the display and would have been "down at the school" if it was presented to her children.
She branded it "ridiculous" and a "step too far" and argued that all children are different and at varying emotional levels meaning one child could be more affected by the mock scenes than another.
With Kaye agreeing with Judi, the ITV panel show's anchor then turned to Frankie and asked her how her children would react. She echoed Judi's previous put and explained that her eldest would be "terrified" while her youngest would think it’s "great".
It is then that the 33-year-old opened up about her own experience at school.
She said: "When I was a kid, we were taken to the war museum and I still remember a lot of the things I saw there, and actually, that caused me great anxiety for the rest of my childhood."
"Weirdly, as a kid, my reaction to that was 'What’s going to keep me safe from that bomb?' I would sleep inside my duvet cover and up against the wall so that no-one could see me, and every airplane to me was a fear that we were going to get bombed."
Frankie went on: "I still remember the smell of smoke in there. It really triggered something in me and probably the rest of the class were fine."
She then queried whether the school should have asked the parents if their child wanted to be involved or not.
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