Katie Price has opened up about her acrimonious split from pop star Peter Andre, confessing it left her “at breaking point”.
The celeb couple first sparked their romance on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! in 2004, tying the knot just a year later, and expanding their family with the arrival of Junior in 2005 and Princess in 2007. But in 2009, the pair announced their split.
Katie, 46, has now slammed opportunists who cashed in on her heartache, flogging “Team Pete” and “Team Katie” merchandise. In her new memoir – This is Me: The High Life. The Dark Days. The FULL Story – Katie even says people she trusted let her down following the split, reports the Mirror.
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The glamour-model-turned-businesswoman detailed how after their much-publicised break-up, she was pained as the villain. She said: “After Pete the tide turned against me and people who knew me saw me at breaking point from all the pressure. There was no let up from that point. There didn’t seem to be anything positive written about me: it was just easier to make me out to be a villain.”
The former glamour model and Mysterious Girl singer Pete split weeks after announcing Katie suffered a miscarriage weeks before they ran the London Marathon. She now admits she regrets not speaking up against the backlash she received in the aftermath of the divorce. Now, the reality TV star says she wishes she spoke out at the time.
She confessed further: “I regret not speaking up more when the media started playing us off against each other. You could buy ‘Team Kate’ or ‘Team Pete’ t-shirts and hats. People made a fortune from a devastating time in my life.
“There was no ‘team’, it wasn’t a game. It was a sad situation, it was a marriage break-up and yet it was treated with mockery and amusement by the press, and sadly, also by people I trusted, who saw me at breaking point and, despite that, continued over and over again to keep pushing me down.”
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Katie and Peter’s love story was quite the rollercoaster ride, from their duet of A Whole New World to heated arguments and a divorce hearing that lasted barely a minute. Katie claimed at the time that she didn’t want the split.
Rumours circulated that Katie had started an affair with her horse riding instructor Andrew Gould, which she refuted. Post-Peter, she moved on to MMA fighter Alex Reid, before tying the knot with former stripper Kieran Hayler in 2013.
Currently, Katie is seeing Married at First Sight star JJ Slater. The duo connected after she messaged him on Instagram following his diabetes diagnosis announcement. Their relationship seems to be flourishing since then.
*This is Me: The High Life. The Dark Days. The FULL Story by Katie Price will hit the shelves courtesy of John Blake on July 18.
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