Helen Flanagan's cryptic Instagram post after being banned from driving

Former Coronation Street prima Helen Flanagan had said her fellow Robbie Talbot was driving her Audi erstwhile it was caught speeding doubly - but was inactive fined astatine Wirral Magistrates' Court

Actress Helen Flanagan shared a mysterious punctuation connected Instagram aft being banned from driving.

The erstwhile Corrie star, 34, had claimed a suspension would origin her "exceptional hardship" but magistrates imposed the six-month ban, and fined the histrion connected Friday.

Flanagan had claimed her fellow Robbie Talbot was driving her Audi erstwhile it was caught speeding doubly crossed Merseyside successful June past year, but she was charged with 2 counts of failing to springiness accusation relating to the recognition of a driver.

After her proceeding astatine Wirral Magistrates' Court connected Friday, the mum of 3 took to her Instagram communicative arsenic she shared a station by podcast presenter Bryony Gordon. It showed a picturesque presumption of a sunset formation scenery arsenic the waves deed the shoreline. The words emblazoned connected the representation read: "This excessively shall pass." Adding: "But what the f***?"

Magistrates were not satisfied Flanagan, who already had six points connected her licence, would endure superior hardship owed to a ban. This is contempt the star's plea she is "struggling" financially and would not beryllium capable to spend taxis to instrumentality her youngest lad Charlie to nursery without usage of a car.

Speaking successful court, Flanagan said: "My occupation truly is being a mum astatine home. Their dada works away. It's truly hard astatine the infinitesimal present for maine to beryllium earning money. I gain wealth connected societal media but it benignant of varies what I earn.

"I deliberation determination mightiness beryllium a cognition possibly that I would easy beryllium capable to spend a operator but that's rather acold from the case. I've got capable wealth successful my relationship to wage disconnected my taxation and my VAT and fundamentally that's astir it."

She claimed the distant determination of her location successful Bolton, Greater Manchester, meant she would "really conflict without a car". When asked, she said an Uber to the nursery, for instance, outgo astir £10.

Flanagan, who played Rosie Webster successful Corrie initially from 2000 to 2012, added: "If I was doing that each the clip it would beryllium very, precise costly for me."

She said she would request to interaction her accountant for details connected precisely however overmuch she earned but said past twelvemonth she made "about 70".

She said she besides needed the car to instrumentality her 2 older children to after-school activities, spell to her therapist successful Birmingham and conscionable her ex-partner, footballer Scott Sinclair, astatine a work presumption successful Birmingham erstwhile the children went to enactment with him.

Asked if she had spoken to Sinclair astir whether different arrangements could beryllium made erstwhile helium saw their children, Flanagan said: "No, I haven't. I've got a precise hard narration with my ex-partner. It's very, precise draining." The histrion said she saw had anxiousness and ADHD.

She said: "I bash conflict with anxiousness and I person unspeakable OCD. I bash really, truly conflict with my ADHD truthful it does truly interaction my beingness successful wide really."

Flanagan, besides a model, said she had told Mr Talbot, who sat astatine the backmost of tribunal for the hearing, helium needed to reply to constabulary erstwhile she had received the speeding fines.

She said: "I precise stupidly and naively thought it was acceptable for my fellow to reply connected my behalf to explicate to the constabulary it was him that (was) driving, it wasn't me."

Chairman of the magistrates' seat David Holley asked Flanagan if Mr Talbot would beryllium capable to thrust her car if she was banned. She said: "I would consciousness really, truly aggravated if my fellow was to take that distant from maine and past he'd thrust my car. I don't deliberation that would beryllium good with me."

Patrick Boyers, defending, said: "She is simply a azygous parent of 3 children and she is doing her best. I would invitation you to spot circular the haze of societal media influencer branding. I would invitation you to look astatine this lawsuit connected the cold, hard facts of who is successful beforehand of you and I would invitation you to find that exceptional hardship is simply a existent possibility."

Flanagan nodded erstwhile she was sentenced and offered to wage the good successful £1,000 monthly instalments. She was fixed six punishment points for each offence.