Katie Price reveals she was raped at gunpoint before trying to take her own life
07.09.2022 - 11:37
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Katie Price has revealed she was brutally raped at gunpoint before she tried to take her own life.
The tortured television icon has told the harrowing truth behind the last five years of her life for the first ever time in a bid to explain her worrying behaviour to her fans. As reported by the Mirror, the mum-of-five was so tormented by the South African carjacking and rape she "knocked herself out and gave herself two black eyes" in a desperate suicide attempt.
Thankfully she was saved, and now the star is speaking out to promote her new show Katie Price: Trauma And Me, which airs on Channel 4 tomorrow. "The experience when I was filming with ITV in South Africa we had no security, if we had security they would have helped when the six guys jumped out, held me at gunpoint and raped me," said Katie.
In her candid and frank new documentary the former glamour model, 44, looks back on her darkest moment during her battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after the 2018 rape, talks about her ex husbands (but refuses to name them directly) and the moments she looked at herself in the mirror before facing jail.
She tried to take her own life at a time, she says, when "no-one knew how bad I was".
"After years of neglect, I suffered a mental breakdown in 2018. I was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder," Katie says during a voiceover on the show.
"I hit severe depression a couple of years ago, depression on top of PTSD, I was suicidal, didn't want to be here. I tried to kill myself. I knocked myself out and had black eyes. I had bruises around my neck.
"I woke up. I didn't want to be here."
Katie had been filming for a reality TV show in 2018 when she was subjected to the horrifying car-jacking ordeal. The star said