Former Coronation Street star, Helen Flanagan, revealed how she was in a dark place

after falling for David Haye who had previously been in the middle of ‘throuple’ rumours

with singer Una Healy. The 34-year-old broke down in tears as she recalled how

she “fell in love” with the boxer on Monday’s episode of Celebs Go dating.

Helen, who split from her fiancé Scott Sinclair (34) in 2022, appeared in the I’m A Celeb jungle with David in 2012 when she saw him for the first time.

Speaking to Anna Williamson and Dr Tara Suwinyattichaiporn on the show, Helen got emotional as she spoke about how David who is in an open relationship with Sian Osbourne and started dating her last year.

However, Helen struggled with not being the only woman, adding: “I’d known him for 10 years. We did a reality show together. I remember the first time, seeing him in the jungle, I was like ‘wow.’ It was quite something. It’s really hard for me to talk about.”

“He had a girlfriend and an open relationship. I didn’t mean to fall in love with him, but I did. We did have this amazing connection together – we were like fire.

“It was weird – I think he does love his girlfriend and he loves me as well. It just brings me to a part in my life that was quite dark.”

Last year, Helen reportedly joined David’s throuple after the pair had a flirty exchange with one another.

In exclusive pictures obtained by MailOnline, Helen was seen chatting to David and Sian, at a Heineken after-party following a boxing event.

Onlookers revealed how Helen was particularly enamoured by the pair, who previously welcomed The Saturdays singer Una Healy into their romance.

When David and Helen met in the Aussie jungle, the boxer admitted that he thought the soap actress was a “real cute chick” but said she “stunk of fake tan”.

When Anna mentioned how the relationship was reported as a ‘throuple’ in the media, Helen insisted that it wasn’t.

“I was in love with him,” she insisted. “I wouldn’t have enjoyed watching the man I was in love with have sex with another woman, that’s not for me.

“I had communication with his girlfriend, but I felt very guilty. I didn’t feel nice about it all. It really upsets me because I don’t mean to hurt other people but I was just really lonely.

“I found it really difficult because it just happened. It’s not nice on another girl and I should’ve known better.”

Tipperary native Una previously admitted that she was “embarrassed” by the relationship and said she felt tricked into joining the relationship.

After reportedly meeting on the celebrity dating app Raya, Una and David became romantically involved for several months, even though David had also been dating model Sian since 2020.

The boxer boasted about the relationship with both Una and Sian in a series of online posts and celebrated with both of them on Valentine’s Day.

When the trio went on holiday to Costa Rica together, rumours started circulating that the relationship was actually between all three of them.

In March of last year, Una called time on the romance and spoke out about the throuple claims for the first time.

Speaking on the My Therapist Ghosted Me podcast she said that she felt “hoodwinked” into joining the relationship.

Una Healy

She told Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally that David was the one pushing the “throuple” narrative.

She said: “He was very honest that I wasn’t the only woman he was seeing, I was very aware he was seeing other people. I knew he was being honest and it’s not like I was being cheated on.

“I knew he wasn’t husband material, just a bit of fun and I was enjoying it.”

Una gradually became aware that David was talking more and more to his ex-girlfriend Sian until he confessed that Sian was still “very involved” in his life.

“He doesn’t label, he’s never called her [Sian] his girlfriend, he’s open, polyamorous. So I did meet her and she was a really nice girl but there was nothing going on there so it wasn’t a throuple. I wasn’t romantic with her, I don’t really know her,” Una explained.

She now insists she’s single and is said to be “embarrassed” by all the throuple talk.