The final texts Lee Andrews sent to Katie Price before disappearing for days have reportedly been revealed.
Andrews had been due to return to the UK for a TV interview, but when he failed to do so, Price, 47, took to her social media to issue a plea, claiming he was missing.
‘Lee has been missing for three days. The last time I heard from Lee was Wednesday night at 10 o’clock,’ she said in a YouTube video.
‘He was trying to go through the border in Dubai to get on a flight to me… and this is so, so discombobulating… His location went off at 10:03 Wednesday night; that’s the last contact anyone’s had, his family and myself.’
Katie went on to say she and his family had contacted the police, adding she was concerned he might have been ‘kidnapped’.
The reported texts sent to Price, which have been seen by The Sun, show Andrews claiming he had been arrested near a ‘black site’, which is a covert government detention centre.
The messages were allegedly sent between 12.36am and 1:01am local time in Dubai last Thursday. In them, the controversial businessman wrote: ‘Been arrested. I’ll be in touch. I’m ok xx.’
According to the texts seen by the publication, Price replied within five minutes, asking: ‘Where? Why? I’m worried’ and told Andrews she loved him.
He then reportedly replied saying he didn’t know where, as his ‘other phone’ had been taken.
Price is then said to have asked: ‘If they take your phone how will I get hold of you? Should I have your dad’s number?’
Andrews then reportedly shared his live location with Price and told her to contact the British embassy, saying he was being taken to a ‘black site’.
The publication has reported that the live location ended with the message ‘Keep that on babe. Love you.’
He then reportedly texted Price: ‘It’s a black site, I love you, I sort it. I’m in the van… just being detained wtf.’
A friend speaking to the publication said Price has been ‘spiralling’ since and pointed to the texts as proof that Andrews’s disappearance is not a publicity stunt.
They added: ‘These WhatsApps prove that she is as blindsided as the rest of us as to Lee’s movements. She is not in on it, whatever “it” is.
‘She wants anyone with information to contact her or the police with information that might help find him.’
The publication previously reported that Andrews had actually ‘ghosted’ his wife and was ‘squatting in a slightly run-down villa’ in Dubai.
He was said to be ‘frantically planning a route out of this ginormous hole he appears to have buried himself in’.
Andrews has lived in Dubai for decades and boasted about his so-called entrepreneurial successes; however, there has been very little evidence to back up his claims.
Metro contacted Katie Price and Lee Andrews for comment on this story.
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