Anne Nolan felt ‘overwhelming sense of betrayal’ after feud with sisters

The Nolans star has endured a turbulent life in and out of the public eye.

New Beginnings is the follow-up to her best seller, Anne’s Song, which was released in 2009.

“My book just tells my perspective of it, how I perceived it and what I thought about it all. I’m not having a go or blaming anybody.

The book will also detail the four-year rift with her sisters and how her “stomach dropped” when she was excluded from a family tour.
The Dublin-born star shared that she felt an “overwhelming sense of betrayal” when it was revealed.

However, she added that she didn’t expect her latest book to cause any further fall-outs.

The 2009 tour, which was named after their I’m In The Mood For Dancing hit, saw sisters Maureen, 68, Linda, 64, Coleen, 58, and the late Bernie, 52, reunite and tour across the UK.
 
Like Anne, their other sister Denise, 71, was also not part of the tour.

Anne gained fame as the eldest sister in the family band, The Nolan Sisters, in the 70s.

The group’s hits included Gotta Pull Myself Together and Who’s Gonna Rock You, with their music reaching number one in Japan and South Africa.

Coleen previously spoke on Loose Women about her infamous feud with Denise, leading to the sisters not talking for several years.

Denise said: “It has been well documented that me and my sisters fell out. We didn’t speak for about four years – that is a long time.”

During the ITV segment in 2021, Coleen admitted that all her close friends advised the two to make amends during the fallout.

However, it was Bernie’s death from cancer in 2013 that eventually reunited the group.

“It does take something sad or something momentous to make you realise that it’s silly. For us, that was when Bernie died,” Coleen acknowledged.

“We reconciled and got back together and decided to just never talk about why we fell out again.”

Anne’s book also discusses other breakdowns including her divorce from Brian Wilson in 2007 and the struggles of trying to find a new job.

She revealed to the same publication that she “went for every job” in order to provide for her family.

She eventually left the celebrity life and worked for 16 years for an insolvency company.

“It saved my life at the time. It was regular work, a regular income,” she admitted.