Katie Price fought back tears during an emotional television interview as she confronted the painful reality of how her mental health breakdown and drug addiction impacted her children, Junior Andre and Princess Andre .
The former glamour model, 48, appeared on This Morning on Wednesday to discuss her new Sky documentary, Katie Price: Nothing to Hide. During the interview with hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard, she reflected on the heartbreaking testimony from her two eldest children, whom she shares with ex-husband Peter Andre .
In the documentary, Junior, 21, and Princess, 19, broke down in tears as they detailed their experiences of feeling "lonely and unloved" during the period when Price struggled with cocaine addiction following the breakdown of her third marriage to Kieran Hayler. They were just 13 and 10 at the time .
Price admitted she had no idea of the true extent of their suffering. In the documentary, Junior described a memory of waiting for her to come home and seeing her enter the room at 3:30 a.m. He said, "She was obviously on stuff, right? I could see it in her eyes, and it scared me, because I've never seen my mum look like that" . Princess revealed she would cope by cuddling a blanket her mother had sprayed with perfume, which became her "attachment to Mum" .
"That period of my life, I don't think people realise when I said I had a breakdown, I wanted to die, didn't want to be here," Price told the This Morning hosts . She explained that although she thought she was "trying to be the perfect mum," she was actually "vacant" .
The television personality shared that her children were brutally honest in their interviews for the documentary, with Junior even warning her that they would speak candidly . Price said it "kills me" to know she put them through that, but noted they have since come through the other end, adding, "They're like: 'We've got our mum back'" .
Background of this event
Katie Price's breakdown in the late 2010s came amid a tumultuous period following the collapse of her marriage to Kieran Hayler, which led to a spiral into depression and substance abuse . Her new documentary, Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, produced by Louis Theroux's Mindhouse, is described as an "archive-led retrospective" covering her three decades in the public eye . The four-part series is available on Sky and streaming service Now from July 8 .
