Kieran Hayler told jurors that he made up having a sex addiction after Ms Price and her management “created a narrative” to generate headlines and get income from the publicity
Katie Price’s ex-husband claimed he does not have a sex addiction and that it was “made-up publicity” created to save Ms Price the “embarrassment” of him cheating, his rape and sexual assault trial heard today.
Kieran Hayler, 39, was under cross-examination from prosecutor Ryan Richter today at Lewes Crown Court when it was put to him that he was “practised at having affairs”, and Ms Price had described him as having a sex addiction. He replied: “I have used that description, yes, but it’s not correct.”
Hayler is accused of committing three rapes and one count of sexual assault against a girl aged 13 in 2016, while he was married to Ms Price. He denies all charges.
Today in court, Hayler told jurors that he made up having a sex addiction after Ms Price and her management “created a narrative” to generate headlines and get income from the publicity. He said it was also to save Ms Price the “embarrassment” of him cheating on her with the nanny.
Mr Richter said Hayler, in an interview with the Sun in 2017, said: “nobody wants to be a sex addict, nobody wants to cheat on their wife, but in that situation I haven’t been able to help that.” When asked why he did it, Hayler said: “It affected my life by alking about it. Kate decided that’s what we’re going to run with.”
The prosecutor said Hayler goes “out of his way” in the article to say Mr Price “isn’t a liar”. Speaking of the sex addiction claim, Hayler said: “It was just made-up publicity, as with all of Kate’s life.” Mr Richter asked if the bit about Ms price not being a liar was made up too, to which Hayler replied: “It is yeah.”
Elsewhere, when asked about his relationship with Ms Price, Hayler told the court the final trigger for him moving out of their home was seeing it in an “actual state” coming downstairs one morning. He said: “[There were] drugs o nthe side, cocaine on the worktops, alcohol everywhere, the house was in an actual state.”
Hayler has claimed the allegations are a “smear campaign to ruin me”, orchestrated by Ms Price. He was married to Ms Price at the time of the allegations, before the couple’s relationship broke down in 2018 and they divorced in 2021. Mr Richter put to Hayler: “Your feud with Katie Price is not what this case is about, is it?”
“It is,” replied Hayler. Mr Richter continued: “This case is about you having raped a girl, isn’t it?” Hayler said: “I have not.”
Today, Hayler said he belives Ms Price and the complainant came together for a meeting and the alleged victim was “acting” in her police interview. He said previously in his evidence on Thursday he thought Ms Price was “coaching” the teenage girl after discovering messages Ms Price sent to her. The girl is not part of Hayler or Ms Price’s extended families.
Hayler said he took pictures of messages on Ms Price’s phone when they were together, in which she talks to the girl about Hayler fancying her, adding: “I will made you a little star.” Hayler accessed Ms Price’s phone by using her fingerprint while she was “in bed hungover or on drugs,” he told jurors today.
The messages sent between Ms Price and the girl include Ms Price saying she had heard Hayler and the girl kissed and he had “tried it on with her”, adding: “I’m only asking as this is a serious allegaion.” The teen replies that it was “just a flirt thing” and “nothing happened.” In the conversation, Ms Price went on to ask the girl is Hayler ever said he liked or fancied her, to which the girl said: “Yes but I took it as a joke.”
Mr Richter accused the defendant of only producing the messages now because “you’re desperate”. Hayler replies: “Not desperate, I found them.” The prosecutor said: “You never revealed them before because they don’t help you actually. They show [the complainant] admitted for the very first time sexual things happened between the two of you.”
But Hayler said the messages do help him, and that he never flirted with the girl. Mr Richter also put to Hayler that seeing the allegatoin and the complainant “partly accepting” this “must have been horrific for you”. Hayler replied: “I just didn’t think anything of it.”
Pressed on his own comment that he had taken a picture of it, the prosecutor argued that he must have thought about it enough to do so, Hayler added: “Yeah, of course.”
The trial continues.
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