Peter Andre has slammed his ex-wife Katie Price in a scathing statement on social media.
The Mysterious Girl singer, 52, has hit out at alleged “repeated lies” from the former glamour model in a furious statement on social media. Peter and Katie split in 2009 after four years together – they share son Junior, 20, and daughter Princess, 18.
He blasted her recent “comments” about his children’s “welfare and living arrangements” and insisted he was going to “set the record straight” after 16 years. Taking to Instagram on Thursday (August 14), her wrote: “For sixteen years, I have stayed silent in the face of repeated lies from my ex-wife and her family, out of respect for my children and loved ones, but staying silent has been incredibly frustrating. That ends today.
“The latest comments about my children’s welfare and living arrangements compel me to set the record straight. For well-documented reasons, and for their safety, Junior and Princess came into my care in 2018 and remained with me until they reached adulthood.
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He continued: “In 2019, the family courts issued a legally binding order to enforce this arrangement. I have never made this public before, out of respect for my children.
“In 2011 and 2015, publicly documented court cases, found my ex-wife had made false claims. She was ordered to pay substantial damages and legal costs, and to apologise, to me and my management. The same falsehoods are being repeated today.
“Unfortunately, there are many more lies and baseless accusations I have yet to address. Those will now be dealt with in the coming months.”
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Katie’s representatives have since hit back at Peter’s remarks, saying: “Kate is in a much better and clear headspace and is at peace with the situation, this was in the past and she doesn’t feel the need to bring up tit for tat comments, but more importantly she’s dealing with this the right way and it’s now in her lawyers hands. Kate will no longer be gaslight and bullied as she once was.”
Katie has revealed she’s unhappy that Princess has signed to her dad Peter’s management team – which also used to manage her. She claimed she has been excluded from Princess’ new ITV2 show, The Princess Diaries.
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Speaking on her podcast, The Katie Price Show, she said: “I am very, very, very upset that Princess has signed with them when she was 16. I wasn’t asked to look at any contracts so I don’t know what Princess has signed because it’s all to do with that side.”
The mum-of-five has alleged she was not invited to Princess’ 18th birthday party because of the doc. She said on the show: “Princess was like ‘I’m having a party’. And I wasn’t invited because it was for ‘filming'”.
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Katie said of her daughter’s living situation: “Princess, obviously she was living with me, but because she’s doing her documentary, and I’m not even allowed to breathe near the documentary, she’s been predominantly staying at her dad’s while she’s filming.”
Katie, who met Peter on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity back in 2004, claimed “certain people” won’t let her be seen out in public with her daughter. She said: “Princess is now officially an adult, so Mummy and Princess can now go out together, if certain people would let her be seen with me.”
“Everyone knows she’s doing this documentary – and I’m not in it. Certain people don’t think it’s good for Princess to be seen with me. Certain people that used to look after me.”
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Peter’s statement came hours after Katie said she wants to sit down with Pete to hash out all of their problems. She said: “There’s no reason why both parents just can’t be there to support her. Now this isn’t about me. I have to clarify this. I don’t care that I’m not in Princess’s show. I don’t need to raise my profile by being on Princess’s show, I do enough stuff.
“All what I want to do, is just whatever my daughter does, and it’s the same with Junior, I don’t care if I’m in the background, but I want to watch her do her photo shoots, I wanna watch her do her signings, because that’s what I did.
“And my mom and you and Nan used to come along and support, and I’m proud of her. And I just wanna be there with her because I now I feel that I’ve missed out on so much.
Katie continued: “It’s so not fair to bring Princess piggy in the middle. So I think it’s about time all of us adults just sit down and talk about what their beef is with me and just get over it. Life would be more at peace because I don’t have a problem. I just think life would be a better place.
“Well, I’m not saying we all have to be best buddies, best friends, but come on. For the sake of the children, there’s room for everyone to support your kids. Do you know what I mean? I’m not saying I have to stand with them and play happy families.”
The CAN Group said in a statement: “As a company, our duty of care to our clients is paramount. We would never advise a client on their personal life unless asked and we have never stopped anyone seeing their families.”
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