Anne Nolan opens up on ‘betrayal’ after band dropped her and speaks on reality of facing cancer with Linda

Anne Nolan has opened on feeling betrayed when a fallout meant she was dumped from a tour with her sisters.

The Nolan Sisters earned huge success after forming in Blackpool but they also suffered big fallouts throughout the careers. In a new book, Anne revealed to OK Magazine that her stomach dropped when she was left out of the I’m In The Mood Again tour.

The name of the tour came from their hit I’m In The Mood Again which one of the band’s biggest hits and the record that Anne actively sang, performed and promoted. The matter is discussed in New Beginnings – Anne’s autobiography which is packed with explosive and emotive stories.

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She explains the “overwhelming sense of betrayal” that she felt, but doesn’t expect her second book to cause further rifts with her sisters. “Coleen, Bernie and Linda have all written books speaking about the fall out. I haven’t read them but I’ve been told. And there was a book before this, with Maureen in it, too, where the four of them told their side of the story,” she says.

“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.” Her sisters have also been warned what’s to come. “I told them there was going to be a bit about the fall-out in it and they said that’s fine. If they don’t want to read it, they won’t read it.”

Speaking with OK magazine ahead of the release of the book, Anne also discussed the cancer battles her and sister Linda faced during the Covid pandemic. The family had already lost Bernie to the disease in 2013.

Just weeks after discovering her cancer had returned, her sister Linda was given the news that her cancer was back too. “Mine was a new cancer, but Linda’s had metastasized,” she said. “This sounds weird, but we were lucky that it happened at the same time – Covid meant no one could be with you when you went for chemo, but because Linda was having it too, they allowed us to have it sitting next to each other.”

Admitting in her book that “our family was broken when Bernie died”, the pair resolved to always be there for each other. “Linda was great because I was having really aggressive chemo so I’d be there from 9am and she’d arrive at lunchtime and we’d finish together at 5pm. It wasn’t as bad as it might have been for those who were alone – it must have been horrible.

“Cancer is such a lonely time for the person suffering – no matter how many people are around. But you’ve got to get on with it, there’s nothing you can do.” Positive and upbeat after treatment, life feels on the up for Anne and family feuds appear to be a thing of the past.

“My sisters and I are really great friends. We’ve done three cruises together since the argument so we’re back on track,” she says. “When you’re family, you may fall out, but even at the time when we didn’t like each other very much, we still loved each other. It’s an emotion you can’t help.

“We see each other all the time and it was something that happened in our professional lives, but we’ve never ever fallen out about anything in our personal lives. It was a shame it happened, but it happened and we’re over it now,” she says.

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