Katie Price says Princess and Junior ‘didn’t have the mum they needed or wanted’ as she addresses their tearful recollection of being ‘neglected’ as children

Katie Price admitted she ‘had no idea’ how much her children were suffering during the crisis.

The former glamor model, 48, appeared on This Morning on Wednesday and touched on Junior and Princess Andre’s tearful memories of their childhood in new Sky documentary Katie Price: Nothing to Hide.

Katie went off the rails following the end of her marriage to third husband Kieran Hayler, falling into depression and developing a cocaine addiction.

Junior, 21, and Princess, 19, who Katie shares with ex-husband Peter Andre, were just 13 and 10 at the time.

They told how they and their younger siblings, Jett and Bunny, then aged four and three, began to make ends meet, with Katie returning home addicted to drugs after partying the night away.

Katie admitted she was heartbroken to hear the children’s memories as she had no idea what they were going through. She thought she was trying to be the ‘perfect mother’.

He explained: ‘[It was] wretched. They are wonderful. When they did the interview they said: ‘Mom, if we’re going to do this, we’re going to be brutally honest.’

Junior and Princess Andre broke down in tears as they reflected on their tumultuous childhood for their mother’s new documentary Katie Price: Nothing to Hide

However, Katie said that after filming the scenes for the documentary, they came to her and admitted that they had burst into tears, whereupon they asked the question: ‘Why?’

The television personality told Cat Deeley and Ben Shepherd: ‘[Because] I never knew [what they went through] Because frankly I wanted to kill myself and I tried.

‘At that time in my life, when I said I was having a crisis, that I wanted to die, that I didn’t want to be here, I don’t think people noticed.

‘And no matter how much I thought I was a mother, I wasn’t. I was free. For little kids like this who want their mothers. I was trying to be the perfect mother, but frankly I wasn’t. It’s killing me to put them through this.’

She continued: ‘Obviously we came out the other side and said: ‘We got our mother back’ but what confused them was that I was a great mother, I was having a crisis, I didn’t have the mother they needed and wanted.

‘I wasn’t mentally capable of doing it. And it’s killing me to put them through this. The kids know I’m not right. I put my whole family through this situation. Scary but real life. This can happen to anyone.’

In Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, Junior shared how he tried to figure out whether the food was microwaveable to feed his siblings dinner, and recalled the terrifying moment he came home in the middle of the night and realized his mother was high.

He admitted: ‘That was probably the most difficult period of my life, of our lives’, as the Princess agrees: ‘I ‘I didn’t know what was going on and I couldn’t talk to my mother about it because she wasn’t there.’

Katie touched on Junior and Princess Andre’s tearful memories of their childhood in new Sky documentary Katie Price: Nothing to Hide.

At the time, Junior and Princess were just 13 and 10 years old respectively and left to fend for themselves and their younger siblings Jett and Bunny, then four and three (pictured in 2017)

Katie said that after filming the scenes of the documentary, they came to her and admitted that they burst into tears and asked the question: ‘Why?’

Junior continued: ‘And when he was there, he wasn’t there, and we were just kind of looking at each other as brothers.

‘I remember trying to figure out if the food was microwavable to feed us for dinner.’

Recalling a painful memory, the Princess shared: ‘She would give me a blanket and spray her perfume on it, and that was my devotion to her.

‘I used to go home and feel so alone that I would hug myself in a blanket and cry.’

Junior added: ‘I miss him so much.’

Reflecting on a vivid memory, she continued: ‘I was in bed waiting for him to return and at 3.30am I was woken up by loud noises.

‘He came into the room, I’ll never forget the look on his face. She was obviously busy with something and it scared me, I had never seen my mother like this.

‘That’s when I started to see the same pattern and him falling into the same hole. When she wasn’t in the right headspace, she wasn’t, and she wasn’t a mother.

‘The love that the mother I knew when I was a little child gave me was so great that I missed it very much.

‘My mother was on drugs and couldn’t take care of us and that was the truth of the matter.

‘Then I got fed up and realized this was a very unhealthy environment and I needed to get out.’

While Junior left the family home to live with his father Peter when he was 14, Princess decided to stay, explaining: ‘I always wanted to be there for him but he didn’t understand it at the time because he was so caught up in his own problems.’

Junior continued: ‘Thank God my father was stable because that was the home I went to and regained my sanity; I too was wishing and hoping that my mother would come back and get herself together.

‘He made me feel like I wasn’t good enough because he wasn’t fixing himself for me, he wasn’t thinking of himself for us – why?’

Things came to a head for Katie, who was struggling with suicidal thoughts, when she flipped her car while drunk driving in the early hours of September 2021.

Discussing the chaotic few years leading up to the accident, Katie shared: ‘WMy heart breaks when I hear how kids see this.

‘They were still being looked after by the people around me but that’s not enough, children need their mothers.

‘They need their mother’s love and their mother’s embrace. I thought I was going to give this away, but obviously I didn’t.

‘It must have been terrible for them and I’m sorry I put them through that.

‘I thought I was doing the best I could with them but what could I do, I wasn’t good. I couldn’t even take care of myself. ‘I didn’t want to be here, I wanted to die.’

Katie pleaded after the accident Guilty of drink driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

He was given a 16-week suspended prison sentence and a two-year driving ban, as well as a stay in court-mandated rehabilitation. He was diagnosed with ADHD.

“I’m relieved he’s still here,” Junior thought. ‘I think trying to end your life should wake you up. He helped himself and quit drugs.

‘I feel it is my duty to look after her, she is a very special jewel, she is my mother and I only have one.

‘I feel like I got my mother back. My mother knows he’s crazy, but that’s why we love him and we’ll always be there for him.’

He added that his only hope for the future is that Katie will stop relying on male approval.

Junior explained: ‘I wish he had found more comfort within himself. I want him to enjoy his own company more.’

Discussing his reaction to the news that Katie had married Lee Andrews in Dubai after days of meeting him, Junior sighed: ‘This is so stupid, the stupidest thing.

‘Marrying a man you don’t know sums it all up, this is my mother, this is what she did.’

Katie went off the rails by developing a cocaine addiction following the end of her marriage to third husband Kieran Hayler (pictured with eldest son Harvey in 2014)

It was revealed that during filming Katie met and married her fourth husband, alleged businessman Lee Andrews, who had recently been released from Dubai’s notorious Al-Awir prison.

In the documentary, Katie described her ideal man, saying he should be older, someone who could treat her, someone who wouldn’t leech her and who wasn’t looking for fame.

It was revealed that during filming, Katie met and married her fourth husband, alleged businessman Lee.

Lee has been accused by several of his exes of defrauding them and was most recently accused of taking £5,000 from a ‘vulnerable woman’ in another alleged scam.

He denied any involvement in any negativity.

Lee later set the internet on fire after Katie seemingly disappeared after initially claiming she had been kidnapped. It was later revealed that Lee was being held in Dubai’s notorious Al-Awir prison.

Despite mounting evidence that fraud was the reason for his arrest, self-proclaimed “millionaire” Lee insisted he was imprisoned on suspicion of espionage “and held in a state security building” before being jailed for “a civil case in Dubai”.

In an Instagram post shared earlier Wednesday, Lee continued to insist there was “not a single shred of evidence” that he was accused of fraud and attacked his ex-fiancée Alana for spreading the story.

He claimed he was ‘taken at gunpoint to the Qatar border by men and caught by men with assault rifles’, adding: ‘They smacked me a bit, little bastards.’

Lee is Katie’s fourth husband. She was first married to Peter Andre for three years until 2009.

Nine months later, she remarried cage fighter Alex Reid, who also appears in the documentary and has expressed in interviews that he did not like Katie publicly discussing their sex life.

They separated in January 2011 and exactly two years later she married Kieran Hayler, the father of her youngest child. They split in 2018 after he admitted to being unfaithful multiple times throughout their marriage.

The four-part Sky Original series Katie Price: Nothing to Hide is available NOW on Sky and the streaming service from 8 July.

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