Heartbroken Frankie Bridge opens up about 10-year-old son’s life-changing diagnosis

‘I just feel helpless’

Frankie Bridge has candidly spoken about her son struggling with dyslexia, admitting “it just really breaks my heart”.

Loose Women star Frankie is a proud mum to two sons, Parker, 11, and Carter, 10, whom she shares with husband Wayne. When Carter was eight, he was diagnosed with dyslexia.

And in a recent update, The Saturdays singer Frankie was left emotional as she opened up about the “battle” she is facing as he tries to get Carter the help he needs.

Frankie Bridge on Loose Women
Frankie is a mum to two boys (Credit: ITV)


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Frankie Bridge opens up about son’s struggles

In a recent YouTube video, Frankie discussed Carter’s struggles with dyslexia at the moment, as he is refusing to go to school, leaving her feeling “helpless”.

According to the British Dyslexia Association, dyslexia is a “specific learning difficulty which primarily affects reading and writing skills”.

“Carter had a bit of a meltdown yesterday, about going to school. He cried I’d say at least an hour, which is becoming a new thing. He’s been crying about going back into school quite a lot,” she told her fans.

The Loose Women star added: “Just finding it really hard, saying things like ‘even food tech there’s loads of writing and science and stuff’ and it just really breaks my heart.

“I find it really difficult to keep sending him in every day. And I know he’s fine when he gets there, he’s doing so much better. But I feel really helpless. And I don’t know what else I can do for him really.”

Frankie and her son and husband
She has opened up about Carter (Credit: SplashNews.com)

‘I just feel helpless’

Frankie then said: “I know he wants me to say he can be home-schooled. I don’t think that would work for us, and I think it’s really important for him to socialise. I just don’t think it’s realistic for us as a family. I just don’t know what else I can do for him.”

She added: “I don’t want him to hate the next eight years of his education, I don’t want to have to force him in everyday and just know he’s gonna struggle all day. I just feel helpless basically. I need to look in to it, I need to talk to the school.”

Frankie later gave an update in a following video after talking to Carter’s teachers. She said: “I had to come into Carter’s school to help some more stuff in place to help him better with his dyslexia at school, because he’s been really finding it hard.

“It’s been a bit of a battle to get him into school. They just couldn’t be nicer, at the last school it was a complete battle to get them to do anything. But at this school they’re like ‘right let’s do this’.”