Katie Price has insisted her husband Lee Andrews will be released from prison within days and says she ‘cannot wait’ to be reunited with him.
The so-called businessman has been locked up in Al Awir Central prison in Dubai for weeks, with former glamour model Katie, 48, flying over in an attempt to track him down.
After being ghosted by her husband of five months, Katie has now spoken out about his disappearance after his claim that he was kidnapped, when in reality he was put behind bars on allegations of fraud.
The TV star has also insisted that she will ‘never’ give Lee money, despite him reportedly needing £140,000 to be released.
Speaking to The Sun, Katie said: ‘He is coming out, I can’t wait to see him, can’t wait to have our chats, and he should be out next week, but knowing that, knowing what prisons are like even in England, you never know.’
But she added: ‘I’ve made it clear to Lee, I will never give him money, I’ll never give a man money, I’ve done it all my life, I’ve always been the breadwinner. My divorces, I’m the one that always has to give. I said to Lee I’ll never do it.’
Katie added that she never worried that Lee would end their relationship when he suddenly disappeared after missing a scheduled interview on Good Morning Britain, and that she was in touch with a specialist team in the UK over fears he’d been kidnapped.
‘I’ve never thought Lee’s ghosted me, because I know how close we are,’ she declared.
‘Never thought it, and we’ve always had conversations because we both like watching crime and stuff like that.
‘You always think of scenarios, we would never do anything like that to it, or we, our relationship isn’t like that, we’re proper like this.
‘And so it was a worry when the kidnap team then came on because they can only say from their intelligence,’ she added.
Initially, officials told Katie that she must pay £6.5k for the authorities to release Lee.
Everything Lee Andrews has been accused of since marrying Katie Price
Misleading claims of being a multi-millionaire business owner
When Katie named Lee as her new partner, he was selling himself as the CEO of Aura Group Future Urban Travel 2027 and an ‘investor in SpaceX Hybrid Fitness’.
His profile, which had 111k followers, was littered with photos of the entrepreneur in the gym and enjoying the high life in Dubai – also appearing to rub shoulders with Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian.
However, it was all later exposed as a farce – with no information about his company on its website, and his snaps with celebrities appearing to also be AI-generated.
Being banned from leaving Dubai
After meeting and marrying her new husband in Dubai, it came time for Katie to fly home to the UK – however her husband was unable to join her.
This was due to the fact that he’d allegedly served time in Dubai’s Al Awir central prison for suspected fraud, for allegedly taking out a £200,000 mortgage in his ex-girlfriend’s name without her knowledge.
The UAW bans people facing criminal investigations from leaving the country, however Lee denied he was unable to return to the UK and said there must be some ‘wrong details’.
However, Katie later confirmed he was subjected to a ban, but didn’t clarify why.
Teasing a fake pregnancy
Just a few weeks into their relationship, both Katie and Lee teased they were expecting a baby. After Katie declared she was ‘having his child’ Lee wrote they were a ‘perfect couple soon to be triple’.
At one point, the mum of five even urged her followers to pay £2.99 to find out the results of a pregnancy test.
Despite the attempts to generate publicity, she then confirmed she was not pregnant.
Scamming a string of women
Days after Katie and Lee tied the knot, two of his exes accused him of being a ‘liar, narcissist and manipulator’.
Two months later, it was then reported he’d been begging women for money weeks before he married Katie.
His ex Alana, then shared a post on Instagram calling him the ‘Tinder Swindler’ and claimed multiple women had contacted her saying he’d tried to scam them out of money too.
‘Ghosting’ his wife
After Lee failed to return to the UK last week, Katie revealed she had concerns he’d been kidnapped and then reported him as a missing person.
However, it was then reported that Lee had actually ‘ghosted’ his wife and was ‘squatting in a slightly run-down villa’ in Dubai and using a burner phone.
The Sun claimed he was ‘frantically planning a route out of this ginormous hole he appears to have buried himself in’.
However, she was then informed of a third case awaiting a court date, allegedly relating to property.
Katie added that she now ‘needs some time to think’ about her relationship with Lee.
‘I still cannot end things with Lee until I’ve spoken to him, but that was a lot.’
‘I cannot just walk away from my marriage without seeing him again. He is, surely, entitled to his say?’
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