Katie Price Opens Up About Whirlwind Marriage to Lee
Katie Price and Lee took center stage as the former glamour model appeared on This Morning to discuss her new Sky documentary, Katie Price: Nothing to Hide.
The four-part series, which debuts today, chronicles the glamour model’s three-decade-long rise to fame and fortune, including her marriages, affairs, and her life as Jordan. Presenters Cat and Ben grilled Katie about her whirlwind romance with husband Lee, which saw her married to him within two weeks of meeting him. “The program shows the family’s reaction to me going to Dubai to see Lee as well as getting married to him so soon afterwards,” said Katie. The media queen defended her man after he spent time in Dubai’s maximum security Al Awir jail after debts were owed.
Katie Price Says Marriage to Lee Became a ‘Gimmick’
Katie declared that her marriage has become a “gimmick,” and she’s told her husband Lee to stay off social media.
She said that it was “making headlines” and said to Lee, “You’re not helping yourself,” telling him when he got out of prison to leave social media alone and to give himself a break.
“You don’t listen; you’re messing about, and no wonder everyone has got all of this on you; you’re not helping yourself at all.”
The co-host then asked the television star how her marriage was going, as there had been a lot of concern for the star.
She Said Family Refuses to Meet Lee
She said, “I have just gotten back from Dubai. I know a lot; you know, people don’t know. It is such a mess, you know; it just looks messy.
People don’t believe you that you have been kidnapped, you know, and that this and that happened to you; they just think it’s all a joke.
It’s not fair to me because it doesn’t look good, you know, and then you have to get away from it all.” Katie said that Lee will still be coming over to the UK, despite the travel ban.
She added, “So when he comes over to England, he said he will take a lie detector test, you know, but it has gotten so far that nobody believes it’s a marriage, you know. It has gotten so far that it is ridiculous; it is not fair to me, especially to my family. They don’t want anything to do with him, and you can’t blame them for that because of what is out there.”
Katie revealed that her family will not be meeting Lee if he tries to contact them to set up a meeting.
She said, “I want them to [meet Lee], you know, but at the moment they are like ‘no,’ you know, because they are protecting me.
Katie Says She Won’t Let Another Man Hurt Her
“I love that my family, friends, and everyone is protecting me.”
“I said to Lee, if you see my doc, you will see how many times men have let me down, so this is why people are like that because men have been the downfall of my life, and they are protecting me because they don’t want another one to use me and break me.”
“But what I can let you know, where I have therapy, yes, I married him quick, but I’m so protected that I will never let a man hurt me, break me, or destroy me again,” said Katie, giving her mom Amy a shout-out, before saying she was back in the hospital but insisting she is a “strong woman.”
The doco charts her rollercoaster life from marital meltdowns to multiple career changes.
Junior and Princess Break Down Over Katie Price’s Addiction
But in a heartbreaking moment, Katie’s eldest children, Princess and Junior Andre, break down in tears over their mom’s drug problem and say, “Thank God Dad was stable.”
Junior, 20, and Princess, 19, who were born to Katie and her first husband Peter Andre, appear in the new docuseries.
One of the most heart-wrenching scenes involves Princess and Junior discussing their mother’s drug addiction after her marriage to third husband Kieran Hayler ended.
“I remember missing her so much, and I remember this one time in particular: I was in her bed waiting for her to come back in. I woke up probably about three thirty in the morning to some noises, and I walked in the room and saw her wandering around the room, and I’ll never forget the look on her face,” he said. “She was clearly on something; you could see it in her eyes.”
Junior Andre Recalls Katie Price’s Drug Struggles
“And it scared me because I have never seen my mother act like that before. She was home, but she wasn’t home. “She wasn’t really my mom like I knew her when I was a little, little boy. “Mum was on drugs, and she couldn’t look after us, and that’s the actual reality of it. She couldn’t.
“We kind of looked after each other as brothers and sisters, you know. She had to go out a lot, and I remember trying to work out if something was microwaveable to make a meal for dinner. “Not that she didn’t feed us, but she was out a lot.”
