Pop Star’s Brother Homeless And Living In A Tent

Pop star Cheryl Cole was said to be ‘knocked sideways’ after hearing about her older brother’s living situation.

Andrew Tweedy revealed he is living in a tent on the streets following a struggle with addiction, reports the Birmingham Mail. The singer, now simply known as Cheryl, is reportedly shocked and torn with guilt by the news that her older brother is now homeless.

Andrew Tweedy, the former Girls Aloud Star’s eldest sibling, recently revealed that he has been living in a tent for several months after a relationship breakdown. The news is said to have “knocked Cheryl sideways” and she is torn with feelings of guilt about what has happened to her brother.

Mr Tweedy said: “This is what I’m ****ing living like. I’ve been begging here for more than three months, and it’s something that has really broken my heart. I’ve got so much ****ing pride. With the family I’ve got, I shouldn’t be here. It’s horrible. None of them have contacted me. Even though Cheryl’s not helping me, she’s still my family. She probably won’t even know I’m on the streets. I don’t blame her at all. This is the lowest I’ve ever been.”

A source told Heat magazine, “Cheryl was obviously knocked sideways by the stories about her brother. It left her reeling on a lot of levels. She’ll always carry around those guilty feelings about Andrew.” They continued: “No matter what anyone says about his addiction, she’ll always wonder if things would have worked if she had tried harder with him, offered him even more than she did, if she could have saved him.” Cheryl had previously tried to help the 41-year old by offering to pay for rehab.

Before her 2006 wedding to footballer Ashley Cole, Cheryl visited her older brother in prison. “I left the prison in floods of tears,” the Call My Name singer wrote in her autobiography, Cheryl: My Story. “I had the means to really help Andrew now, if only he wanted to be helped, but he clearly didn’t.”

Also, in the book, Cheryl described how Andrew received a six-year prison sentence for stabbing someone when she was a teen leaving her devastated. “I’d be 18 by the time he was released, so I felt like part of my childhood was taken away that day too,” the singer wrote.