The children of Katie Price, Junior and Princess Andre, have told of “the most difficult time in our lives” during her public breakdown in 2018.
Price, 48, has led a turbulent life in the public eye over the past three decades, having first risen to fame under her alter ego Jordan as a page three girl in 1996.
The model has suffered from several major mental breakdowns – most notably in 2018 and 2021 – which resulted in severe depression, and she has previously said her struggles were exacerbated by constant media scrutiny.
Appearing in her new documentary, Katie Price: Nothing To Hide, the two children she shares with ex-husband and singer Peter Andre have opened up about living with their mother when she “wasn’t in the right headspace”.
Junior, 21, and Princess, 19, recounted the period during which Price was struggling with her mental health after splitting from her third husband Kieran Hayler amid his infidelity.
Junior said: “When (Kieran Hayler) cheated on her the first time, that literally broke her.”
“That was probably the most difficult time of my life – of our lives – probably,” he continued, referring to himself and his younger sister.
KatIe Price with Princess and Junior in 2017
Princess added: “I felt like I didn’t know what was going on and I couldn’t talk to mum about it, because she wasn’t there.”
The teenager, who is now a reality star and TV personality, also recalled how “lonely” she felt during this time, and said: “(Price) would give me a blanket and she sprayed all her perfume on it, and that was my attachment to mum.
“I remember after school, I used to go home and just feel so lonely.
“I used to just cuddle to the blanket and just cry.”
Junior added that he chose to live with his father, Mysterious Girl singer Andre, during his teenage years as his mother “wasn’t in the right headspace” and “wasn’t being a mum”.
Junior continued: “She wasn’t being the mum that I knew from when I was a little boy.
“The amount of love she gave me was so immense and that’s what I missed so much.
“Mum was on drugs, and she could not look after us, and that’s the reality of it. She couldn’t. And then I got fed up. I clocked on that this was a very unhealthy environment, and I needed to get out.
“Thank God my dad was stable, because that’s the house I went to and gained my sanity back.
“It made me feel like I wasn’t good enough, because she wasn’t fixing herself for me, she wasn’t fixing herself for us.”
Prior to that, Junior said growing up in separate households was “actually really fun”.
He said: “Mum is a very fun mum. Very loving, in her own way.
“There weren’t really many rules, just imagine kids running around, high on sugar.”
On 11 May 2009, Peter Andre and Katie announced they were separating after about four and a half years of marriage
Princess added: “We never did anything to cross boundaries but, mum didn’t really have any boundaries to cross.
“You never have a boring day with her, there is always something going on in her life.”
Junior praised their father for giving them rules and routine, adding that it kept their “sanity”.
The mother-of-five stars in the four-part series, produced by Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse production company.
Price has recently remarried to Lee Andrews, which has brought a fresh wave of drama as he is reportedly believed to have been detained by Dubai authorities.
Despite this, she says she has hit the reset button on her life and is now the best version of herself.
She previously told the Press Association: “I’ve been on a rollercoaster journey, and there’s so much that’s been written about me over the years.
“People believe everything. They all think they know me. I know I’ve done reality shows, and don’t get me wrong, I’m an open book, and people do know a lot about me, but the question is: do they know everything? And the answer is no, they don’t.”
Source: Press Association
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