Writing about Katie Price’s new documentary, I have, like most reviewers been drawn to the rollercoaster ride she had been on professionally and in her private life over the last 30 years.
The four part series from Sky has an impressive list of talking heads from Gareth Gates to Dane Bowers as well as Katie’s own children giving their viewpoints on her use of drugs, her marriages and mayhem. But almost hidden away, and certainly lost in the many headlines over the last week have been two incidents earlier in her life. Reflecting on the documentary I feel they go a long way to explaining why Katie Price acts the way she does.
“Did I tell you I tried to get social services involved?” Is an innocent question that Amy Price asks the film director Paddy Wivell. Katie’s mum then recounts her daughter’s first serious boyfriend, an unnamed man who she met and moved in with at 16. Amy was understandably concerned as the man was older and possessive.
Amy says: She was 16. It was the first boyfriend that she had. She met him at the stables. He was older than her. He, he was definitely a wrong one. She said, “I’m moving in with him, I couldn’t stop her, so I run social services out, and I said, ‘Look, can you help? I’ve tried everything to keep my daughter away from this guy’, and she said, ‘We can’t do nothing about it’, so she moved in with him.
“She used to ring me every now and then, because I wanted to keep things going and open with her, and she says, “Mum, he’s very possessive. Just leave, we’ll take your stuff and leave. One day, he ripped all her clothes up, he ripped her boots up, said she had no clothes to wear. She went along to the end of the road, which is to tell round her, and I picked her up, and she came home.”
Giving her account of what happened, Katie says: “He was 25 I was 15. I was a kid, really, and I lost my virginity on my 16th birthday to him. He was on drugs, drank a lot, used to drink, drive a lot, hit me, maybe do things I didn’t want to do, like I used to have to look forward, I couldn’t look to left to the right. Are you looking at that man? You doing this, you doing that? I was pregnant with him, he kicked me in the belly, lost the baby. Even talking about it now, suddenly, ever really sat and spoke about it. It actually makes sense why I’ve gone for them kind of relationships, very, very, very unhealthy, because that’s what I’ve been used to from young, being abused by men, young, young, and my first relationship was abusive.”
And this wasn’t even the first time Katie had been abused. Early in the film she also recalls being attacked by a man as a child at seven years old.
She says: “I just remember it being a sunny day. To walk to the park there was a cut way through a bush, there was three of us, there was just a man there. I can just sort of remember him approaching us, wanting us to do stuff to him and him wanting to do stuff to us. I can remember it clear as day, his face, the feelings of what he did.
“And then this boy and this girl walked past and they must have called the police. But I just remember, police talking, I don’t know what they asked but I do remember they took my knickers.”
These incidents don’t immediately excuse Katie’s behaviour for the last 30 years, far from it. But I feel they will certainly have affected her and her opinion on men and relationships as well as perhaps what she wants and desires in partners.
Since that troubled teenage relationship Katie has rarely been single, and at the time of writing this is married again to Lee Andrews.
It is another relationship which shocked her family, another relationship which has not been built on solid foundations and one which even she seems unsure will last.
Like her mother Amy says at the end of the new series, I hope one day Katie can find peace and long lasting relationship that will calm down the chaos in her life.
* Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, a four-part Sky Original series, will be available on Sky and streaming service NOW on 8 July.
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