Princess and Junior Andre said Katie Price ‘wasn’t being a mum’ as they recalled her devastating drug use.
The former glamour model’s turbulent life is in the spotlight in her new Sky documentary series, Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, where members of her family and former flames are revealing all.
In the final episode of the four-part series, her two eldest children harrowingly reveal a period of time where Katie, 48, was using drugs, forcing Junior to leave home and live with their dad, Peter Andre.
Peter declined to be featured in the documentary, but shared a statement revealing his decision to not be interviewed.
In 2018 Katie was seen rapping about ‘loving cocaine’ in a video which left her family reeling, they said. Junior remembers it being ‘the most difficult time of his life’.
Katie’s mum, Amy Price, revealed her daughter told her of her drug use: ‘I don’t do it to get high, I do it because it quietens my brain down.’
In heartbreaking scenes, Junior, 21, and Princess, 19, revealed how often their mum would be absent.
‘The siblings would just look after each other. I remember trying to figure out if food was microwaveable to feed us for dinner… not that she didn’t feed us, but she was out all the time,’ Junior recalls.
Princess remembers how her mum sprayed a blanket with her perfume and gave it to her when she would leave, saying: ‘I remember after school I used to go home and feel so lonely, I used to cuddle the blanket and just cry.’
Junior then recalled a heartbreaking incident in which he saw his mum on drugs, explaining: ‘I remember this one time I was in her bed, waiting for her to come back and I woke up at 3.30am to some loud noises and I see her come in the room.
‘I’ll never forget the look on her face. She was obviously on stuff… I could see it in her eyes. It scared me because I’ve never seen my mum like that. She’s there, but she’s not there. That’s when things started recurring, and I started seeing the same patterns. I started seeing her fall down the same hole.’
‘When she wasn’t in the right headspace, she wasn’t being a mum. She wasn’t being the mum that I knew from when I was a little boy. The amount of love that she gave me was so immense, and that’s what I missed so much,’ he added.
‘Mum was on drugs and she couldn’t look after us and that’s the reality of it. I got fed up. I clocked on that this was a very unhealthy environment and I needed to get out.’
It got so bad that Junior made the difficult decision to leave home at the age of 14 and live with his father.
‘Thank god that my dad was stable because that’s the house that I went to and gained my sanity back while I was wishing and hoping my mum would come back and turn herself around.
‘It made me feel like I wasn’t good enough because she wasn’t fixing herself for me, or us. Are we not good enough for you?’
Katie has publicly detailed a history of using cocaine to self-medicate during periods of distress.
It culminated in a high-profile car crash in September 2021, after which she confessed to police, ‘I took drugs, I should not be driving’.