Katie Price’s ex Kieran Hayler has told a jury he falsely described himself as a sex addict as part of a publicity strategy after an affair while married to the media personality became public.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old is on trial at Lewes Crown Court accused of three counts of rape and one count of sexual assault against a 13-year-old girl in West Sussex in 2016.<\/p>\n
During cross-examination on Friday, prosecutor Ryan Richter suggested Hayler was “practised at having affairs” and referred to previous interviews in which he described himself as having a sex addiction.<\/p>\n
Hayler replied: “I have used that description, yes, but it’s not correct.”<\/p>\n
Hayler told jurors that he, Price and her management team had “created a narrative” following his affair to generate headlines and get income from the publicity.<\/p>\n
He said it was also to save Price the “embarrassment” that he had cheated on her with their nanny.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor referred him to a newspaper interview in which he said he had been unable to help cheating because of his sex addiction.<\/p>\n
Asked why he had made those comments, Hayler replied: “Kate decided that’s what we’re going to run with.”<\/p>\n
He told Lewes Crown Court: “It was just made-up publicity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Price’s ex Kieran Hayler has told a jury he falsely described himself as a sex addict as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}