Katie Price’s husband Lee Andrews ‘boasted he was an arms dealer who worked with dangerous people’ in the weeks before his disappearance as insiders suggest ‘it’s as if he’s been writing a storyline’

Lee Andrews ‘bragged about being an arms dealer who worked with dangerous people’ in the weeks before his mysterious disappearance, according to reports.

The 42-year-old businessman, who married Katie Price in January after a stormy 10-day love affair, has been missing since last week.

The troubled glamor model, 47, last spoke to her husband at 10pm on Wednesday last week when he tried to board a flight from Dubai to the UK.

They were supposed to appear on Good Morning Britain for their first joint interview, but Lee failed to make it to the UK.

Since then Katie has been begging fans to help find her ‘kidnapped’ husband, who was last known to have been tied up in the back of a van.

Now, insiders have claimed that in the weeks leading up to Lee’s disappearance he boasted of being an ‘arms dealer to anyone who cared to listen’ and now his mysterious disappearance is ‘as if he were writing a story’.

‘Lee said he had many businesses, one of which was international arms dealing. A source said he was really proud of it. Sun.

‘He repeatedly boasted to anyone who cared to listen that he was working with dangerous people. He brags about it and then gets kidnapped. ‘It’s like writing a story.’

The Daily Mail has contacted Katie’s rep for comment.

Katie said she believed Lee had been kidnapped after he ‘went dark’ in the middle of last week’s conversation.

The model posted her last communication with Lee, hoping it would help track down Lee.

In the messages sent from 12.36 to 01.01 Dubai time last Thursday morning, the so-called ‘businessman’ told him: ‘He has been arrested. I will contact you. I’m fine xx.’

Trying to get more details, Katie asked him within five minutes: ‘Where is he? From where? “I’m worried,” she said, and told her husband she loved him.

The 42-year-old man, who described himself as a businessman and married Katie Price in January after a stormy 10-day love affair, has been missing since last week.

Lee later explained that he did not know where he was taken because they had his ‘other phone’.

Katie asked: ‘How do I reach you if they take your phone? ‘Should I get your father’s number?’

Lee shared his live location and told him to contact the embassy and that he had been taken to a ‘black site’.

The Sun also reported that he gave Katie his father’s number as his emergency contact.

The livestream then ended with the message: ‘Keep it up baby. I love you’.

Lee later backtracked on his claims of being arrested as he told Katie: ‘It’s a black site, I love you, I’ll handle it. I’m in the minibus… I’m just being detained, unfortunately.’

A friend said Sun: ‘As you can imagine, Katie goes completely spiraling. This is NOT a publicity stunt – as if she needs more PR – and no matter what Lee has or hasn’t done, she still loves him.

‘These WhatsApps prove that he was as blind as the rest of us to Lee’s movements. Whatever “he” is, he’s not involved.

‘He is appealing for anyone with information to contact him or the police with any information that could help them find him.’

They added that Lee wanted to know he was safe and then could start ‘asking him some serious questions’.

Meanwhile, Lee’s mother, Trisha, 61, gave her first interview since his disappearance.

The psychic medium said the family was concerned about her well-being following her disappearance last week.

Asked if he believed Katie’s theory that she had been kidnapped, he said: ‘I don’t know, it could have been that way. I didn’t see the video.

‘I don’t know the laws there but I didn’t think they would use cable. Wouldn’t they wear handcuffs?’

Trisha added that she thought Katie was ‘exploiting’ the situation on social media, but after her daughter spoke to the television personality, she could see how worried she was.

A friend of Lee’s mother added: ‘No one knows where Lee is going’ and she just wants him to be okay.

This comes after the publication reported that Lee had not been kidnapped as Katie had feared, and was instead holed up in a run-down villa in Dubai.

He is said to have only been speaking to a few of his trusted networks over the burner phone and ‘frantically plotting a way out of this giant hole he’s buried himself in’.