Junior and Princess Andre have given an emotional joint interview about their mum Katie Price as part of her new documentary series
Junior and Princess Andre emotional speaking on Katie Price’s Sky Documentary
Two of Katie Price‘s children have been seen breaking down in tears as they recalled how their mother’s drug use impacted their childhoods, including leaving them feeling “lonely” and unloved.
Junior, 21, and Princess, 19, are Katie’s children with her ex-husband, Peter Andre, who split when they were young. They’ve now recalled how the aftermath saw their mother unable to cope.
In a new Sky documentary series, Katie opens up about her drug use in the past. It came around a decade after her split from Peter in 2009, and coincided with a series of failed relationships, including a troubled marriage to Kieran Hayler, whom she wed in 2013.
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Speaking in Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, Junior recalls: “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.” He went on: “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, the Mirror reports, goes on to say: “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, who broke down in tears in the joint interview, also say they had to learn how to fend for themselves, including making microwave meals and “looking after each other”.
“It was the only thing that blocked everything out,” Katie says of drugs, thinking back to the worst period of her life. “It will take out that pain, it will take out any worry, it will take out the noise.”
Looking back, she continued: “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 taking drugs and drinking, she crashed her car while feeling suicidal in September 2021. 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”. She recalls: “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.”
Thankfully, she also credits six weeks in The Priory after this incident with saving her life and helping her to learn to look after herself in a better way. Her relationship with Junior and Princess has improved as a result.
Katie’s new documentary covers the whole 30-year career of Katie, beginning as a glamour model who at her peak could command six-figure fees for photoshoots or appearances on shows like I’m A Celebrity, where she met Peter Andre in 2004.
She is currently married to Dubai businessman Lee Andrews and her family express their shock on screen at the fact she again married someone in January she had known for just weeks.
Speaking about the whirlwind marriage, Junior added: “This is the most silliest stupidest thing, marrying a guy she doesn’t even know. This is my mum, this is what she does.”
Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, a four-part Sky Original series, will be available on Sky and streaming service NOW from Wednesday, July 8
