Katie Price's children Junior and Princess Andre in tears on Sky documentary: 'She wasn't being a mum'
Junior and Princess reflect on their mother's strugglesKatie Price‘s new documentary on Sky sees her children Junior and Princess Andre relive painful memories as they fight back tears while discussing their mother’s struggles.
They appear in Katie Price: Nothing To Hide, Katie Price’s new documentary.
Katie Price documentary sees Junior and Princess in tears
Junior, 21, and Princess, 19, are the children of Katie Price and Peter Andre, who doesn’t feature in the documentary. They have opened up about Katie’s public breakdown following her 2018 split from her third husband Kieran Hayler.
In the documentary, Katie admits that Kieran’s infidelities “destroyed” her.
Junior says: “When [Kieran] cheated on her the first time, that literally broke her, and he did it worse. When they fully broke up, that’s when she really really spiralled.”
Katie says she started using drugs to “block everything out”.
Junior adds: “That was probably the most difficult time of my life, our lives.”
Princess agrees: “I didn’t know what was going on and I couldn’t talk to mum about it because she wasn’t there.”
Princess also recalls a small but painful routine from that period. She says: “She’d give me a blanket and spray her perfume on it and that was my attachment to her. I used to go home and feel so lonely I would just cuddle the blanket and cry.”
Why those years still hurt
Junior remembers waiting for his mother to return. He says: “I was in her bed waiting for her to come back.”
He adds: “I woke up at 3:30am to some loud noises. I saw her come into the room and I’ll never forget the look on her face. She was obviously on stuff and it scared me, I’d never seen my mum like this.”
He continues: “That’s when I started seeing the same pattern and her falling down the same hole. When she wasn’t in the right headspace she really wasn’t and she wasn’t being a mum. The mum that I knew from when I was a little boy, the amount of love she gave me was so immense, that’s what I missed so much.
“Mum was on drugs and she couldn’t look after us and that was the reality of it.”
Junior left the family home at 14 to live with his father, Peter. Princess stayed with Katie. She says in the documentary: “I always wanted to be there for her but she didn’t understand that at the time because she was so hooked up in her own problems.”
Speaking about Katie’s struggles, Junior tearfully adds: “It made me feel like I wasn’t good enough because she wasn’t fixing herself for me, for us. Are we not good enough for you? Why…”
Junior and Princess then became tearful.
The Katie Price documentary also touches on Katie’s mental health struggles. It includes her suicide attempts and rehab stints for substance misuse.
Junior also shares his thoughts on Katie’s new marriage with Lee Andrews. The pair married in January after meeting days earlier.
He says: “This is the most silly, stupidest thing. Marrying a guy you don’t even know. Well, this just sums it up. This is my mum. This is what she does.”
Later in the episode, Junior says: “Mum can’t be alone. I feel like she’s scared to be alone. Because, I feel like, if she’s alone, she doesn’t have anyone to turn to apart from herself.”
He adds: “She probably wants to escape some thoughts that she has and some feelings that she has. But she keeps getting hurt and broken because these partners are no good for her.”
