Watch moment Katie Price opens up on drugs shame, arrest and ‘major breakdown’ saying ‘I self medicated on coke’
KATIE Price has opened up about her drugs shame and “major breakdown” in an emotional new interview.
In September 2021 Katie, 46, was rushed to hospital after crashing her car while under the influence of drink and drugs.
Now the former glamour model has spoken out about her struggles over the last few years.
Appearing on Westlife singer Nicky Byrne‘s new podcast, Katie said: “I’ve been diagnosed with severe ADHD.
“I remember the doctor saying to me, because obviously he knew I’d done [cocaine]…
“I’m like, ‘I just go completely quiet and shut down’. He said, ‘That’s a major sign of someone with ADHD.”
Nicky, 46, says: “At one point you were the most famous person in Britain. How does it sit with you now?”
Katie replies: “In our industry, if I don’t turn up for work nobody can replace me. You sort of just get on with it and you don’t deal with what’s happened.
“It got to a point where I had a major breakdown, ended up in The Priory twice, five weeks at a time, and then I self medicated on coke.”
Katie adds: “I’ve been through so much and I’ve come out the other end.”
The mum-of-five previously opened up about the night of her car crash and the events leading up to it.
Writing in her latest autobiography This Is Me, Katie admitted she’d “had some friends round for a few hours” on the night in question.
She said: “One of them had some coke on them and, yes, I had a little bit of it, probably a couple of lines, it wasn’t even a lot. I had some alcohol too.”
But the Katie insisted that it was a call from her eldest daughter Princess, 17 – who she shares with ex-husband Peter Andre – that made her jump in the car.
Katie said: “I could tell she was upset so I asked her what was wrong. My daughter was ringing to tell me she wasn’t allowed to see me and my heart just broke.”
Admitting that she “wasn’t thinking straight”, Katie added: “I needed to go right that minute and I didn’t care that it was 2am. I didn’t care about anything anymore.”
Katie was spared jail for the crash and was instead handed a 16-week prison sentence suspended for a year, 100 hours community service and ordered to attend 20 rehab sessions.
Katie Price - FOUR recent court battles
KATIE Price has had her fair share of brushes with the law. Here we detail four of those:
- December 2021: Katie avoided jail for flipping her BMW in a smash in Horsham, while under the influence of drink and drugs. She was instead handed a 16-week prison sentence suspended for a year, 100 hours community service and ordered to attend 20 rehab sessions.
- The cash-strapped mum-of-five was first declared bankrupt in 2019 in a bankruptcy court, over unpaid debts of £3.2 million
- Katie was declared bankrupt by a bankruptcy court for a second time in March over an unpaid tax bill of £761,994.05
- May 2024: Katie was served an eviction notice by the courts relating to her Mucky Mansion home following her second bankruptcy.