Katie Price says car crash was 'terrible mistake' and she 'deserved to be punished'
07.09.2022 - 12:55
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Katie Price has opened up about a traumatic time in her life which resulted in her attempting suicide after hitting rock bottom - but says the reason she never went through with it was her love for her five kids.
The 44-year-old has lived a turbulent life in the public eye for a long time and her experiences with failed marriages, child custody battles, bankruptcy and – most recently – narrowly avoiding jail for a drink-drive smash have taken a toll, writes The Mirror.
Now, in her new Channel 4 documentary, Katie speaks out about her mental health crisis and recent PTSD diagnosis – admitting she has been like “a ticking time bomb”.
Katie says: “I’ve got anxiety, depression and major trauma and I tried to kill myself. I tried to hang myself. I knocked myself out. I had black eyes, bruises around my neck. I didn’t want to be here. But all I saw was the kids’ faces and I don’t ever want that to happen again.”
The star – mum to Harvey, 20, Junior, 17, Princess, 15, Jett, nine and Bunny, eight – adds: “It was a nightmare. I didn’t give a s*** if I lived or died. I’ve been struggling with my mental health for some time.”
Filmed in the aftermath of her smash in September 2021, she opens up in Katie Price: Trauma And Me about what led her to breaking point. Katie admits that after the crash, which left her car on its side, she realised she needed to change and went into rehab. “I could have killed myself,” she says. “I could have killed someone else. I deserved to be punished, enough was enough.
“Getting in the car was a terrible mistake I’m so sorry for. That was a prime example of me having been triggered and not knowing how to handle it, an example of me spiralling out of control because I needed help.”
Katie also says her PTSD