Katie Price ‘s mum has given details of the star’s sexual assault.
Amy Price, 71, has been living with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a terminal lung condition, since her diagnosis in 2017.
But despite battling the illness, she has spoken out in a new tell-all book about another event which she thinks started her daughter’s downward spiral.
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In March 2018, the mum-of-five was with her Junior, 18, and Princess, 15, filming the reality show My Crazy Life in South Africa.
However as they travelled to another location, their vehicle was car-jacked by four robbing thugs, one of whom reportedly sexually assaulted Katie.
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According to The Sun, Amy revealed: “Following a safari trip, which everyone had enjoyed, the production company decided to try to cross the border into Swaziland at a time of day that wasn’t safe, along a road that wasn’t safe.”
Reflecting on the sexual assault, Amy said “They were attacked by four robbers,” with Katie previously stating she was sexually assaulted at gun point. Katie has also opened up on the assault before in her documentary Katie Price: Trauma and Me.
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According to the publication, at the time of the incident a spokesperson for Multistory Media said: “All security protocols were followed . . . Extensive and long-term support was offered to Katie and her family following the robbery.”
Amy also reveals that she thinks that this was the start of Katie’s downward spiral, which saw an apparent suicide attempt.
She said: “It would be easy to pinpoint the beginning of Kate’s downward spiral to the carjacking fiasco.
“A few months after the traumatic incident, one of Kate’s friends rang me to say they had found her trying to kill herself.”
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Amy said Katie’s return from South Africa saw her mental health deteriorate.
She added: “I wish I could have spotted the patterns earlier in Kate’s life and helped her think about the way she has allowed herself to be controlled by husbands, boyfriends and managers always for their own benefit.”
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