NADINE COYLE’S had to put up with a lot of stick this week with rumours that she doesn’t get on with CHERYL COLE and the rest of Girls Aloud.
So the Irish singer gave me a bell from her home in Los Angeles to set the record straight on their so-called feud.
First up she tackled whispers over her relationship with Cheryl. Close friends of the love-split star insist Nadine – working on her debut solo album – DIDN’T contact Cheryl when she fled to LA after hubby ASHLEY’S cheating emerged.
But Nadine told me: “I sent Cheryl an email and I CALLED her. I was like: ‘Hi.’ And she said: ‘I’m in LA’. I was working on the album and dashing around. She was working and doing her thing.
“She wasn’t here for very long so we didn’t get the chance to meet up with each other.”
Nad’s also been in London recently and tried to hook up with the girls. But this week SARAH HARDING said: “I didn’t know she was even in the country.”
Nad, however, assured me she HAD been in touch with all four bandmates – including NICOLA ROBERTS and KIMBERLEY WALSH.
She said: “I sent them a message saying I was back but they must have been busy or something.”
Yet she insists the time apart isn’t doing the band any harm.
“I think having space from each other is a good thing. People were in each other’s faces all the time. It’s good to have a break so we can see our own friends, who have been neglected for the seven years we’ve been together.”
But she added: “I’ve always been close to Cheryl. We’re completely different people. We respect each other for what we’ve done and the different places we’ve come from in life.
“It’s offensive to say I think she’s milking a really difficult time in her life for success. I would like to know who’s saying we’ve fallen out because I know it’s NOT coming from me.”
Last week I revealed how Black Eyed Peas frontman WILL.I.AM has got the hots for Cheryl. So Nad was surprised to see him wining and dining another woman. “I saw him last week at a restaurant with a girl. He must be one of those!” she laughed.
Girls Aloud management had hoped to get the band back in the studio working on their next album by the end of the year, but that’s not going to happen now.
Nad added: “I haven’t really spoke to anyone in the Girls Aloud camp. We don’t have any plans.
“Everyone was deserving of having a break. Some of the girls were older and wanted to relax. Some wanted to do solo stuff. Everyone is entitled to go and do their own things.”
FIRED up NADINE also hit back at reports she has an eating disorder following snaps of her looking skinny.
She said: “I would hate to think people were worried or think I have any type of eating disorder.”
But Nad admitted: “I’m probably a little UNDERWEIGHT for my height. But I’m not a size zero and I never have been.”
Meanwhile, bandmate Sarah Harding didn’t pull her punches after losing weight last year. She said: “I looked skeletal up top. Now I’m enjoying eating whatever I like. I don’t worry. I love bacon and sausage butties.”
NADINE sings with BOYZONE on their ITV1 tribute to STEPHEN GATELY tonight.
She told me: “It was strange standing in his place. And the lads joked, ‘Don’t sing the song too good or Stephen will be cursing you from above.’”
Nad also revealed Stephen looked after her when she moved to London at 16. “He was like a big brother to me. He made me feel like everything was all right.”
Source: NewsoftheWorld
