Katie Price’s kids Junior and Princess Andre broke down in an emotional joint interview as part of the reality star’s new Sky series, Katie Price: Nothing to Hide
Katie Price’s kids Princess and Junior broke down in tears as they recalled how their famous mum’s drug battles meant she was unable to look after them properly.
Katie shares Junior, 21, and Princess, 19, with ex Peter Andre, and they’ve been in the limelight since a very young age. They also had to deal with the fallout of their split, which saw Katie struggle and, at one stage, turn to cocaine to try to deal with her issues.
Junior said in the reality star’s Sky doc, Nothing To Hide: “I remember missing her so much. This one time in particular, I was in her bed waiting for her to come back, and I woke up probably 3:30am to some loud noises, and I see her come in the room, and I’ll never forget the look on her face, she was obviously on stuff, right?
“I could see it in her eyes, and I was.. it scared me, because I’ve never seen my mum look like that. She’s there, but she’s not there, you know.” Junior added: “She wasn’t in the right headspace, she really wasn’t. And she wasn’t being a mum, 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 that that’s what I missed so much. Mum was on drugs, and she could not look after us, and that is 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. I did leave. I think I was about 14 or 15, Thank God that my dad was stable, because that’s the house that I went to and gained my sanity back, you know.
“While I was wishing and hoping that my mum would come back and turn herself around. It made me feel like I wasn’t good enough, because she wasn’t fixing herself for me.”
His sister Princess said: “She’d give me a blanket, and she sprayed all her perfume on it, and that was like that was my, my attachment to Mum. So I remember after school I used to go home and just feel so like lonely in a way. I used to just cuddle to the blanket and just cry.”
She added: “I stayed. I always wanted to be there for her, and I always wanted to show her that, like, she has me, she has us, but she didn’t understand that at the time, because she was so hooked up in her own problems.”
The pair grew emotional in the interview, where they explained how they had to learn how to fend for themselves when Katie was unable to. This included making microwave meals and “looking after each other”.
In her new Sky documentary, Katie herself is candid about her drug use in the past. It came around a decade after she split from husband Peter in 2009, and around the time of a series of failed relationships, including a turbulent marriage to Kieran Hayler, whom she wed in 2013.
Katie admitted she was “unwell” and that she used drugs to mask the pain during one of the most difficult times in her life: “It was the only thing that blocked everything out. It will take out that pain, it will take out any worry, it will take out the noise.”
She was staying out late, using cocaine regularly and not putting her family first. Katie said: “When I hear what the kids, how they saw it, it breaks my heart. But they were still always looked after, I still had people around me looking after them, like helping me.
“But that’s not good enough. Kids need their mum, kids need their mum’s love, their mum’s hugs, and I thought I was given that, but obviously I wasn’t. It must have been horrible for them, horrible for them, and I’m just sorry to them that I put them through that and thought I was doing the best I could with them, but what could I have done?
“I was unwell. I couldn’t even look after myself. I was more than rock bottom. I didn’t want to be. I wanted to die. I felt worthless, suicidal thoughts all the time.”
After one night of drinking and drugs in September 2021, when she was feeling suicidal, she crashed her car. At the crash scene before being taken to the hospital, and then a police station, she had told her mum she “wanted to be out of it”.
Katie said: “I remember when they put me in a cell it was like peace. Peace and quiet. I found that quite comforting. It is quite sad to think that.” She said that the six weeks she spent in The Priory, a famous rehab clinic, saved her life and helped her to learn to look after herself in a better way. Her relationship with Junior and Princess has improved as a result.
Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, a four-part Sky Original series, will be available on Sky and streaming service NOW on 8 July.
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