Laura Anderson took a brutal swipe at her ex partner Gary Lucy in a pointed Instagram Story on Monday.
In the short clip, the Love Island star, 35, could be seen sighing dramatically before launching into a rant about the trials of single motherhood.
In the clip she revealed she was suffering from anxiety and was struggling to balance motherhood and work as a single mother.
She wrote: ‘Single working mothers how do you do it? I’m so overwhelmed atm! I don’t usually suffer from anxiety but my god I cannot sleep from worry and work is just getting on top of me.
‘To top it off Bonnie just wants to be held constantly. I know I’m lucky and I hate being that person who moans but my god there are not enough hours in the day. Trying to keep it together’.
Laura’s comment about struggling as a single mother comes after she previously accused her former partner Gary of not seeing their daughter.
Laura Anderson, 35, took a brutal swipe at her ex partner Gary Lucy, 42, in a pointed Instagram Story on Monday where she asked for advice from other single mothers
Laura’s comment about struggling as a single mother comes after she previously accused her former partner Gary of not seeing their daughter (pictured on Loose Women May 2022)
The reality star and the EastEnders actor, 42, who share daughter Bonnie, 13 months, first met on Celebs Go Dating in 2022 but split in February 2023
The reality star and the EastEnders actor, 42, who share daughter Bonnie, 13 months, first met on Celebs Go Dating in 2022 but split in February 2023.
In July the Scottish TV star took to her Instagram to respond to a comment asking how often Bonnie sees her actor father.
Responding to a troll who questioned whether Bonnie ever sees her father, Laura replied: ‘Do you mean has her daddy seen her…. No he hasn’t since 2nd January if you would like to direct those questions to him as I have no control over the actions of others x.’
After Laura’s accusation, Gary hit back, responding to a cruel troll who insinuated he was a ‘deadbeat dad’.
Underneath a very sweet clip which showed the soap star’s son playing with Bonnie, who was laying in a bouncer he wrote: ‘When Theodore got to be the big Brother for the day …. If this doesn’t melt your heart I don’t know what will ♥️’.
The post was flooded with touching comments, yet a negative one caught Gary’s eye.
‘Funny you keep posting videos but you never see her,’ a person wrote – but the actor was quick to reply: ‘Nope only you “shaz” everyone else seemed to just enjoy a lovely video ….
‘I’ll block ya in a bit … then ya can set up a new email / insta profile so ya can keep a bitter twisted eye on my page.’
In the clip she revealed she was suffering from anxiety and was struggling to balance motherhood and work as a single mother
In July the Scottish TV star slammed her former partner in an Instagram comment and claimed Gary hadn’t seen their daughter since January
After Laura’s accusation, Gary hit back, responding to a cruel troll who insinuated he was a ‘deadbeat dad’ by explaining he did see his little girl
He went on adding in another comment below: ‘Course she does .. she’s invested hours n hours on ppls “instagram lives” that’s gotta going for something right ….. oh wait.’
One fan raced in his support, commenting: ‘Sounds like the Gary police are out in force today, leave the man alone, if you don’t like what he posts then don’t look and unfollow, I’m sure he won’t give a, its his profile, he can post what he likes. Rant over.’
Laura previously detailed the challenges she’s faced raising Bonnie as a single parent after she and Gary split before she was born.
She told The Mirror at the time: ‘I think it was hard to get my head around initially, it wasn’t what I expected. But that’s the cards I was dealt in the end. Of course, I’m going to make it work for my child, even more so. I feel like I’m a really good mum, to be honest.’
Offering advice to other parents facing the same challenges, she added: ‘Prioritise what you need to do, it’s just me. I have to make it work. I am tired but of course, I’m going to be tired. I’m bringing up a human soul, that’s what I signed up for.’
‘[Bonnie’s] great, your social life does take a little bit of a backseat but most people, your good friends understand that.’
‘Think how many mums out there are struggling with that work-life balance, it’s not just me. It’s so relatable and that’s the best thing about ‘Love Island’, having a social media following, I’ve really understood it more since having a baby. It’s so nice to resonate and it really is a positive place.’
‘It’s just full of mums, it’s not all about ‘you’re trying to look sexy all the time’ because that’s not important.’
The reality star has previously confessed she felt she was left in the dark after he publicly announced the split without telling her as she hoped they would work through it
Laura has previously detailed the challenges she’s faced raising Bonnie as a single parent after she and Gary split before she was born
Since their split, the former couple have not been on amicable terms and Laura confessed in September that she felt ‘attacked’ when Gary announced their break-up while she was pregnant.
Laura added she felt she was stripped of the pregnancy she had envisioned because Gary made their split public without informing her.
Speaking to Zoe Hardman and Georgia Dayton on Made By Mammas: The Podcast, she said: ‘Technically me and Gary did plan to have Bonnie and we were really happy and excited and it was around Christmas time. I knew straight away and took a test.
‘I was so excited to become a mum, I feel like I’m going to cry if I talk about this but the personal stuff with her dad, I always envisioned having my partner there and like it being all about you being pregnant but I didn’t have that.’
Laura continued: ‘We broke up for a reason. He made it public without telling me he was going to tell everyone that we weren’t together the same day we were going to announce that I was pregnant.
‘Even though we weren’t technically together I was hoping we would work it out but as soon as he put it out into the public it felt like an attack and like we’re not going to work this out, its now public and he did that the day we were going to announce I was pregnant.
‘So what should have been a magical time and behind the scenes might have been a little bit difficult it then turned into a media circus of negativity.
‘I was trolled because of the way we broke up I never really said anything negative because I was vulnerable and wanted our relationship to work and was scared to say anything.’