Coleen Nolan's son Jake Roche threatened to report her to the police after 'clip round the ear'

Loose Women star Coleen Nolan is a proud mum-of-three but has recalled a fraught exchange with her son, Jake Roche, where he threaten to have her arrested - so she gaslit him

Coleen Nolan has revealed her pop star son once threatened to report her to the police when she hit him.

The 59-year-old reality star is the mother of two sons - including singer Jake Roche, 32 - and one daughter. But raising three kids could be stressful at times, and the former singer revealed she once hit her son when he started to swear at her.

Knowing his rights, Jake then threatened his mother with legal action, saying he would call the cops on her. Revealing all of the drama on Wednesday's riveting instalment of ITV's Loose Women, Coleen told her fellow stars that she turned the situation around on her son.

She told the rest of the ITV show's panel: "I remember once saying to Jake – it's always Jake, bless him – when he was about 12 or 13, he went to swear at me, and as he ran past, I clipped him, not hard. I was just 'no', you know? It was so shocking."

She continued: "He went, 'I could get you done for that'. And in my head, I thought, 'yeah, he actually could, yeah'." But Coleen went on to reveal she outsmarted her son, explaining: "He went, 'I'm gonna phone them', and I went, 'please do, because they'll come and take you away! They won't take me Jake they'll take you and I'm for that right now!'"

Coleen's anecdote came after the Loose Women ladies waded into a debate sparked by former Hollyoaks star Gemma Atkinson. She sparked alarm when she admitted pinched her young son on social media, igniting a backlash against her. She mused to fans in an Instagram Stories post: “Really noticing the differences in how Mia was to Thiago. It's fun to watch. Toys are just banged or slid across the floor and the tantrums are new as Mia didn't have them. He pretend cries and throws himself on the floor. I stand and watch until he realises it's getting him nowhere and they are slowly getting shorter. He pinches when he gets frustrated. I did it back to him on Wednesday as he did it hard to Mia. He's not done it since.”

Following the backlash, Gemma doubled down on her approach to parenting, recounting to fans via Instagram Stories the moment her agent contacted her over the furore. She recalled: "I said, ‘Well, I just said how the differences between boys and girls and Tiago’s going through that phase at the minute where he’s nipping and biting’.

"And I said, ‘He really nipped me the other day, so I went like that.’ [She mimics lightly touching her shoulder] ‘And I said, oi! We don’t nip.’ I didn’t [mimics viciously grabbing her shoulder]. I mean, as if I would." She then joked that she was about to go to bed, adding sarcastically: “I actually better go and get Tiago out the car. I left him in the car for about three hours. The window’s down though, so he’ll be alright, won’t he? He’s fine on the drive, I’m sure."

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