Loose Women star Coleen Nolan warns of holding in anger after 20-year grudge ends in explosive argument

Loose Women star Coleen Nolan warned viewers of the show against holding in anger after revealing that she once "exploded" at a friend over a disagreement that took place 20 years before. 

Wednesday's panel, which was hosted by Christine Lampard and included Jane Moore, Kelle Bryan and Coleen, posed the question, 'What makes you rage?" after a recent survey found that women today are angrier than they were ten years ago. 

Turning to her fellow panelists, Christine asked whether they "bury" their feelings of anger or let it "erupt", to which Coleen responded: "No, I don't actually, because I'm one of these that think sometimes if you react straight away because you're so angry, you might say things that you can't take back or you don't mean. 

"Sometimes I think I just need an hour or 20 minutes to calm down and sort out my head and maybe then I can come back and say, 'This is why I'm annoyed,' rather than everyone shouting."

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Coleen went on to admit that she will sometimes say she's "fine", when in reality, she is bothered by a disagreement. "It happened to me with a friend of the family," she explained. "Something had happened between us and at the time I didn't want to lose the friendship and I thought, 'It's fine, we can move on.'

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"20 years later, she got on my nerves because she got drunk and was spouting off about things and it exploded out of me. I remember the shock on her face, saying, 'Where did this come from?' and I said, 'It's 20 years of holding it in.'"

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She continued: "It was at that point I thought, I should have probably dealt with that sooner. We were fine once it happened because we were very, very close, so we got over it but she was so shocked because she had forgotten all about that and I'd obviously held onto it. 

"So, I don't think it's good to hold onto it," she added. 

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