Kerry Katona has been honest about her struggles with drugs over the years and has said that she is open with her children about what she went through
Kerry Katona has said that she refuses to fix her drug-damaged nose as it serves as a reminder to her kids. The singer has said that despite her nose potentially collapsing, it reminds her to stay clean for her children.
The mum-of-five said that her nose could collapse due to years of cocaine abuse but she will not be paying to get it done surgically. The star has said that her children know about her past struggles with drugs and not getting nose surgery is a reminder for her to stay on the right track.
Kerry has said that she has a hole in her septum which could get worse at any moment. Kerry underwent major surgery last year to rebuild and strengthen the structure of her nose, with surgeons using a piece of her rib to stabilise it.
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However, the hole in her septum may never fully heal which she says reminds her about her addiction struggles. Speaking to The Sun, Kerry said: “My kids know about my mistakes, and about the drugs.
“I even have a hole in my nose that I refuse to get fixed, and I’ve shown it to my children, because for me it was a reminder that if I put another line of coke up my nose, it could collapse. I didn’t want to get it fixed because I wanted to make sure I never went down that path again – and I know I never will.”
Kerry was first introduced to drugs when she was just 14-years-old. She has said in the past that her mum Sue gave her speed and told her it was sherbet.
Kerry was living in care at the time but would often sneak out to try and see her mum in Warrington. The star realised later in life that it wasn’t just the drugs she needed to stop to turn her life around – she also needed to cut certain people out of her life.
She said that every time she tried to become clean, the “tribe” tried to “pull you back”. She said that she found that those in a similar position didn’t like seeing her progress so tried to drag her back down.
Three years after her divorce from Brian McFadden, she married cabbie Mark Croft but this reignited her drug use. Kerry has said that Mark was her mum’s drug dealer and that’s how they met.
She had only been out of rehab for six weeks at the time. Kerry has since managed to turn her life around and has found another romance in her life.
After three husbands in total and two fiancés, Kerry says she is now extremely happy with the new man in her life who she crossed paths with on Celebs Go Dating.
She hit it off with personal trainer Paolo Margaglione, 33, and the pair seems to be going from strength to strength and the couple are very much in love.
Kerry said she usually tends to keep the start of her relationships out of the public eye to avoid speculation but this time it played out on screen.
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