Princess Andre has opened up about her turbulent childhood navigating her mum Katie Price’s high-profile divorce.
The former glamour model and Peter Andre met on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here in 2004 and went on to have two children together – Princess, 18, and Junior, 20 – before separating in 2009.
Now, Princess is telling her side of the story in a new ITV series, The Princess Diaries, which focuses on her relationship with fame and carving out her own reputation beyond her celebrity parents.
During the first episode, which aired on ITV2 on Sunday, the mum-of-five made a voice note cameo, revealing that Princess was the ‘naughtiest child’ in the household growing up.
Despite talk of a feud between the pair in recent weeks, Princess said on the show that she and her mum are like ‘best friends’.
Although she then opened up about the difficulties she faced growing up with ‘a lot on her plate’.
The social media influencer, who has 782k followers on Instagram, shared what she went through after Katie and her ex-husband Kieran Hayler broke up in 2018 after five years together.
She said: ‘We got really close to him and loved him. He did a lot of stuff, and when they split up, everything kind of went downhill. My mum, obviously, being heartbroken, didn’t deal with that the best way.
‘She went through a very, very dark time, which was understandable. It was hard for me because I was around adulty things that kids should never see.
‘I think, as well, when we needed our mum there, she wasn’t emotionally able to be there because she had so much of her own problems going on.’
Princess was ‘asked questions’ by her classmates about her family troubles after what they read in the papers.
Then added: ‘I would come home from school, get into bed, and cry at 11 years old. I would never go and speak to my dad about it because my mum and dad don’t like each other, which is fair enough; they’re not going to.’
Even though Princess admitted she has never ‘fully recovered’ from the ordeal, she did reveal that her mum has ‘genuinely fixed herself’ and apologised to her kids about the way she behaved.
During an appearance on This Morning last week, Princess said she was braced for all kinds of reaction to her show thanks to her parents.
‘I feel like the way I think about it is if you’re putting yourself out there, you have to expect negativity and positivity too.
‘We learnt from our parents how to deal with it. There are horrible people but we just have to deal with it,’ she said.
Meanwhile, addressing the feud rumours when Katie didn’t attend her 18th birthday party thrown by her father, she told Daily Mail, ‘there’s no rift’ and that her mum was simply away for the last-minute birthday do.
The Princess Diaries is available to stream on ITVX.
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