Girl’s Aloud singer Kimberley Walsh has admitted that she would probably never have chosen Nadine Coyle or Sarah Harding as friends, if she hadn’t ended up in a band with them.
The former Strictly Come Dancing finalist last toured with her bandmates earlier this year and the ‘Ten The Hits’ shows wrapped up in March, after positive reviews from critics and fans alike.
Since then, things have been fairly quiet on the Girls Aloud front, however in A Whole Lot Of History – Walsh’s new autobiography – the stunning singer opens up about tensions behind the scenes and admits that she only really feels close to Cheryl Cole and Nicola Roberts now.
She wrote: “Nicole, Cheryl and I have always remained close in Girls Aloud, I think we’d have been friends even if we weren’t in a band together. But I’m not sure that would have been the case for me with Nadine or even Sarah.”
“That’s not to say I don’t care about them or respect them.”
“They’re just very different from me and I don’t always understand where they’re coming from.”
Kim also opened up on the tensions that led the Girls Aloud splitting and admitted that the writing was on the wall from 2009, when Nadine moved to LA and got herself a manager.
She said: “Around the time when Girls Aloud filmed a cameo appearance for the movie St Trinian’s, which came out in 2009, things really got tricky.”
“Cheryl and I were in the Winnebago, getting ready, when our manager Hillary Shaw took a phone call.”
“When she hung up, she was all in a panic.”
“What’s wrong, Hills?” Cheryl said.
“Oh nothing,” Hills whispered. ‘It’s just Nadine’s bloody manager.’
“What? Nadine’s what?”
It turned out that Nadine had taken on someone to represent her as a solo entity, and we knew absolutely nothing about it. We felt like we’d been sucker-punched.”
Things were no different when the band reformed last year for one last tour. Kimberley says she, Cheryl, Sarah and Nicola knew they couldn’t continue as a group, however while Nadine refused to be part of the discussions or work on a press release with the girls, she later insisted that she didn’t want to split.
Kimberley said: “Nicola, Cheryl, Sarah and I tore ourselves apart about how we were going to announce to the fans that Girls Aloud was finally over.”
“All five of us knew that it was going to end, which is why we’d agreed to do one final tour.”
“An hour before the very last show, while we were still working on the official announcement, Nadine point blank refused to agree to any kind of press release — but we had to let the fans know somehow.”
“You can imagine our surprise when Nadine went public, saying that she had no part in our decision to split, and that she wanted the group to keep going.”
“It was quite a hard piece of news to swallow because she never said any such thing to the rest of us, and splitting up was what we’d always planned.”
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