Lottie Ryan has said she was heartbroken when her famous parents told her they were separating.
Gerry Ryan’s eldest child with former wife, Morah, said she didn’t want to choose who to live with.
The radio star told Jennifer Zamparelli on their joint-podcast, Jen and Lottie Do Parenting, that even though she had friends with separated parents, it didn’t make things easier.
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The mum-of-one said: "Growing up I had loads of friends who had parents who were separated.
"It didn’t mean that when my parents separated I was going, ‘Oh yeah, this is cool. I’m totally okay with this.'
"I was utterly heartbroken!"
Lottie recalled how herself and her siblings were told the news separately.
"I think my mum told me and I didn’t take it well," she remembered. "Telling me is going to be completely different to telling every single one of my brothers and sisters.
"Because everyone was at completely different ages and required their parents to be different things for them.
"That unit means something different, I suppose, when you’re a different age, but I think no matter what age you are, you’re going to be heartbroken.
"You don’t want one of your parents to not live with you.
"And because you’re a kid and selfish, I thought, does that mean I can’t see my friends at the weekends because I have to live with so and so?"
Lottie, whose son Wolf, celebrated his second birthday last weekend, revealed that life at home had been very strict, but that her father never shouted at her.
She said: "I went to concerts with my parents. They would have been pretty involved in my life as a teenager."
She added: "If I wanted to go out, it was my parents that took me. Overall they were pretty strict.
"They never shouted at us so if the voices were raised it was, 'Oh my God.'
"If my dad came in to me and said, ‘I am so disappointed in you’, I’d be broken.
"There were five of us growing up. What a minefield."
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