Coleen Nolan has been left in “constant pain” after suffering a horrific injury while walking her beloved dogs.

The Loose Women star has been forced to wear a leg brace after finding herself limping around her home. It came after she tore her meniscus – knee cartilage – while out with boxer dog Becks and Macedonian labrador Filly.

On Loose Women: The Podcast, Coleen, 60, explained Becks and Filly were “racing around” as she walked through the fields with the pair. Filly however ended up running “full pelt” at Coleen, knocking her over in the process.

Speaking to co-star Jane Moore, Coleen said: “Last year my rescued labrador from Macedonia got very excited around the boxer. I was in a field with them and they raced around, I’m casually walking, and didn’t see them coming up behind me at full pelt and she just wiped me out, up in the air.

“I knew I’d done something. It was just…’Ooft, that’s not good’. You know when you fall and then I got up and thought, ‘Oh, that’s hurting’.

Coleen says she tore her meniscus while walking her dogs (Image: Getty Images)
“Long story short, I tore my meniscus. I would like to say I got it playing football or some kind of sport but no, the dog took me out.

“In the last few months it’s got really bad again, I’m having physio and I have to wear this leg brace to support it. It’s really painful.”

Coleen said people have been passing comments about her age after noticing her injury. But the star was quick to counter: “All the time I want to go, ‘It’s nothing to do with my age, that could have happened when I was 20’.”

When asked how the injury affects her life, Coleen replied: “It’s constant isn’t it? I’m trying not to limp because it looks awful but I have to limp because if I don’t limp, it hurts even more, so everything is a bit of an effort at the moment.”

Coleen says she is trying not to limp on her injured leg (Image: mirror.co.uk)
Last year Coleen moved to a farm in North Staffordshire. She shares the plot with her 29 pets, some of which have been rescued, reports the Liverpool ECHO .

Originally, the former popstar only planned to have six pets, joking she doesn’t enjoy odd numbers. But in November she revealed she welcomed 14-year-old rescue dog Buster into her home after daughter Ciara saw him in a nearby sanctuary.

On Loose Women, Coleen said: “So I’d already decided we have too many animals – so no more animals. But then Ciara sent me this video saying this little dog is in the rescue centre, he’s 14.

“The people who owned him have just died, and the dog he grew up with has just died, and she said, ‘No, my mum’s not going to take it’. He’s 14, and it’s really, really hard to find adopters for older dogs, but when I went to see him in the sanctuary, he just cried, and he was trembling because he didn’t want to go back in, and I was like, oh, we’ll foster him. There was no way I’d give this dog back.”