another source
At 19 she got a job working for a technology company. She left the council house and moved into a rented place on a quiet cobbled street in Sharples. 'I was doing admin and marketing and I thought I could work my way up,' she says. But the company started to flounder and Helen found herself, 'last hired, first fired'. She had just returned from a holiday in Marbella, funded by £500 from a loan shark.


http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/...s-6414703.html

doh Erin has posted the link JoshBB

an excerpt
This is the story of an ordinary girl who became a single mother at 16 and then got herself into debt. She had borrowed £500 from a loan shark for a holiday to Spain. When she was made redundant from her £260-a-week office job, she had no way of paying it back. The pressure was on and the bailiff was knocking at her door, not to mention her landlord, who was sniffing around, asking if she would pay him in kind. Worried one night, she phoned her friend who suggested that she join an escort agency. The friend told her that she had been working the - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/woman/cele....3lpolyr6.dpuf

So being working class means you have all the excuses in the world? Being middle class doesn't?

Here's a little tip, working class doesn't mean you have an awful life and middle class doesn't mean you'll have a great one.

She mentions the £500 borrowed for a holiday in this interview. :hehe:

If only Wonga had existed, we might never have clapped eyes on Helen :laugh:

My favourite quote from The Independent article..

:D

:joker:

She's so wise. :joker:

Not bothered about her upbringing,She's still filth.

Just because someone is from a wealthy background does not mean their life is plain sailing,something has obviously been lacking for her to be angry and aggressive,as for all the people calling her names like 'filth' etc shame on them,it's no better behaviour than you accuse Helen of,very hypocritical in my book.

This is all old news,I cant see the point in repeating everything,some hate her,some like her,are all the hate threads supposed to make some of us change our minds? I don't give a rats arse where she was brought up or how much money they had,I like her,I find her interesting.

Just 3 years back
seems not the same

What went wrong?

The only thing that is different to me is her style.

It seems weird that the same voice we've got used to over this series is coming out of a completely different face. :eek:

Yes yes yes, we all know how every word written in the press is completely accurate and should be treated as gospel.

Anyone with life experience (the phrase of the series) will know that wealth and good fortune for a family do not make it a properly functioning, stable and happy one.

Think I am now done with all these hate threads, they are beyond boring

Sure
but I think after that TV
she had harder times
and became Harder

The only difference no foul language ,I would recognize her.

:clap1::clap1::clap1:

Middle class does not mean you will be wealthy either.

All this class malarkey is like hocuspocus.:joker:

Since when does being poor or rich excuse bad behaviour?

I don't think you can really judge Helens character on living in a £300,000 bungalow (not house) anyway she hasn't lived there for 11 years.

She is a single mother and currently lives in rented accommodation as far as im aware. Her father has openly said he is ashamed of what shes done and apologised to the rooneys.

They do not have a relationship, why do you think when everyone got letters from home hers was from her friend?

A background based on earnings and properties means nothing, my parents both have lovely homes, 2 cars, 2 gardens ect but I rent a 1 bed flat in ****ing Cardiff lol.

In an interview about her parents this is what she had to say..

'I had parents who bickered every single night and effed and blinded at each other and I'd rather have been in a council house, living in poverty with two happy parents than having two parents who despised each other. When I was 15 I slit myself all the time with razor blades.' At 15 she moved out to live with a school friend whose mother called social services and she was put into foster care with a vicar and his wife who she loved. But, a few weeks later, she lost her virginity to a 17-year-old boy and became pregnant. Her parents were by this point were about to embark on divorce proceedings and had signed her into permanent care (she must have been a deeply threatening teenager to merit such a stark rejection, 'I was never violent unless provoked,' she says). Social services would not allow her to remain in foster care while pregnant and moved her into a council flat which her baby bump's father would visit. 'The first time he beat me to a pulp I was six months pregnant. It was because he couldn't find his keys,' she says.

She hasn't exactly grown up as the normal everyday teen would but I know a lot of girls who were in the same circumstances and thinking about it are quite head strong and aggressive to a point.

That's interesting reading tbh,it does answer a few things.

I think Jeremy Kyle could testify that it "might" answer a few things, but plenty of youngsters go through worse and don't necessarily choose to behave in certain ways as adults.

Still, it appears some of her past might be considered of some relevance now but those rejecting that previously?

Yes, yes, yes.

(I was somewhat appalled to read that her father publicly apologised for his daughter's behaviour in the Rooney situation. I think that shows something that was lacking in her relationship with her father. If my Dad were her father, he would have said nothing, or that it was an unfortunate situation, but it's over.)