Former glamour model Katie Price has sparked some family resentment after changing her mind about dedicating a song to her mum, who was hospitalised earlier this year, after her husband Lee Andrews ‘disappeared’
The wild soap opera of Katie Price’s life took a dramatic turn at the beginning of this year when, for the ninth time, the 47-year-old former glamour model revealed that she was engaged. This time, the new man was Dubai-based entrepreneur Lee Andrews.
Despite stark warnings from former girlfriends and business associates claiming that Lee couldn’t be trusted, Katie got married for the fourth time just days after they first met. The mum-of-five happily described Lee as her dream man, claiming: “Manifesting does work.”
But the drama escalated when Lee was booked to appear with Katie on ITV’s Good Morning Britain in their first joint interview.
He had been due to fly from Muscat International to join his wife in the UK, but then seemingly disappeared, claiming that he had been arrested by the UAE authorities for espionage. The story later changed to suggest that he may have been kidnapped.
Shortly after his disappearance, Lee called Katie via FaceTime claiming that he had been thrown into in the back of a van and that his hands had been tied. But, finally, after a two-week search, Lee called his wife in a two-minute phone call from prison yesterday morning.
Despite having previously said she was “giving up the search,” a jubilant Katie uploaded a podcast today to share details of the phone call. She also addressed the reaction to the track she released on social media, a cover version of one of her favourite songs, in tribute to her missing husband. But her sister Sophie was quick to reveal that the decision had caused drama amongst her family, including her mum, who’s been unwell.
Back in March, Sophie told listeners that their mum was “not good” and had been readmitted to hospital for treatment after developing an infection.
Brenda Russell’s haunting ballad “Get Here,” which became a huge hit for Seattle-born soul singer Oleta Adams in 1990, contains the lines: “You can reach me by caravan, cross the desert like an Arab man”, which gained extra resonance when Adams’s version was released during the first Gulf War and, of course, has a connection to Lee’s mysterious disappearance in the United Arab Emirates.
“You know what’s funny though,” shrieked Katie to her sister Sophie, “I was in the studio recording my new record and I was like, ‘Just for fun, I said, let me just sing this song.’”
“I actually did it for Mum,” she added, before Sophie interrupted her, saying: “Let me tell the listeners. Kate called Mum and was like, ‘Mum I’ve been in the studio. I’ve made this song for you’… she’s like, ‘I know you love it.’
“But then Kate put it up on her Instagram, saying, ‘Oh, this is for Lee, and the situation.” Their mother told Sophie that Katie’s sudden U-turn over the song had “really p****d her off”.
Katie tried to justify her actions, explaining that she knew the song had been one of her mum’s favourites and so she had recorded it to cheer her up, because she hadn’t been well.
”But then,” she added, “I thought, do you know what? These words actually resonate with what’s going on. So, then I put it up for Lee.”
Sophie and Katie’s step-dad Paul Price expressed his absolute shock at Katie’s Instagram reel of the song, but Katie insisted that it had been rattled off in one take: “I sound dreadful in it, but I don’t care,” she shouted.
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