Katie Price insists she doesn’t want to ‘self-destruct’ after drink-drive crash

Katie Price insists she doesn’t want to ‘self-destruct’ after drink-drive crash as she credits her children with ‘saving her’ from a suicide attempt

The former glamour model, 43, who is now in therapy, said she needs to learn how to cope with difficult personal situations and doesn’t want to ‘self-destruct’ In new BBC documentary Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next, Katie reportedly reveals that she struggled to cope when her son Harvey moved into a residential school three hours away from their Sussex home last yearA month after he moved out, Katie flipped her car and was handed a 16-week suspended sentence and two-year driving banKatie takes the blame for the horrific accident, saying: ‘There’s no one to blame for me getting in that car but myself’ The star added: ‘I need to learn to cope when these situations happen because I don’t want to go into self-destruct’ If you have been affected by this story, you can call the Samaritans on 116 123 or visit www.samaritans.org 



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Katie Price has said she has ‘no one to blame but myself’ for her drink-drive crash last year when she flipped her uninsured BMW X5 into a hedge.

The former glamour model, 43, who is now in therapy, said she needs to learn how to cope with difficult personal situations and doesn’t want to ‘self-destruct’.

It comes as the star also credited her five children with saving her life after she contemplated taking her own life a few years ago before her stint in The Priory.

Honest: Katie Price has said she has ‘no one to blame but myself’ for her drink-drive crash last year when she flipped her uninsured BMW X5 into a hedge

In new BBC documentary Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next, Katie reportedly reveals that she struggled to cope when her son Harvey moved into a residential school three hours away from their Sussex home last year.

A month after he moved out, Katie flipped her car and was handed a 16-week suspended sentence and two-year driving ban. 

In scenes from the documentary seen by The Sun, Katie takes the blame for the horrific accident, saying: ‘There’s no one to blame for me getting in that car but myself.

‘But if people could see, that night, what was going on in my head . . . I wasn’t telling myself not to get in the car. I just thought, “I need to go”. So I’m lucky nothing happened.’ 

Family: The star also revealed that she tried to take her own life a few years ago before her stint in The Priory but credits her children with saving her life (pictured with her son Harvey, 19)

Crash: Katie, who is now in therapy, said she needs to learn how to cope with difficult personal situations and doesn’t want to ‘self-destruct’

The star added: ‘I need to learn to cope when these situations happen because I don’t want to go into self-destruct.’

Katie’s family reportedly said her mental health was negatively impacted when Harvey, who has autism and Prader-Willi syndrome, left the family home. 

Later in the documentary, which airs on BBC1 on March 10, Harvey is seen making progress at his residential school, leaving Katie confident she made the right choice in letting him move out. 

The star said she is learning to ‘let go’ and said there comes a point when you have to let other people help.  

Children: Harvey’s father is Dwight Yorke, while Katie is also mother to Junior, 16, and Princess, 14, with ex-husband Peter Andre and Jett, eight, and Bunny, seven, with ex-husband Kieran Hayler (pictured with her children and Kieran)

It comes as Katie told how she previously tried to take her own life a few years ago but credits her children with saving her.

She told Radio Times: ‘I tried to kill myself before I ended up in the Priory. The only reason I didn’t was because of my children. So, if my kids weren’t here I wouldn’t be here today. Fact. The kids saved me.’ 

Katie was spotted outside the rehabilitation centre in February 2020, following a host of rehab stints over the past two years in the wake of legal issues and substance abuse.

Before her 2020 visits to The Priory, Katie last visited the facility in September 2018 when she spent 28 days as an inpatient after her family urged her to seek help following wild partying antics in Mallorca. 

Katie previously said of the low point in her life: ‘I wanted to commit suicide. I planned it, I did everything… Everything was on top of me, it was a build up.

‘I’m only human, I’m strong but there’s only so much you can take and I could have either committed suicide or got help.’

Emotional: In new BBC documentary Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next, Katie reportedly reveals that she struggled to cope when her son Harvey moved into a residential school three hours away from their Sussex home last year

Harvey’s father is Dwight Yorke, while Katie is also mother to Junior, 16, and Princess, 14, with ex-husband Peter Andre and Jett, eight, and Bunny, seven, with ex-husband Kieran Hayler. 

Following her crash in September, Katie escaped with a 16-week suspended prison sentence and a two-year driving ban because she complied with a requirement to attend the £6,800-a-week rehab centre – despite going out shopping while staying at the facility. 

The media personality was told by a judge that she deserved to spend Christmas behind bars after committing her ninth motoring offence.

Her ‘drama free’ year didn’t last long, as she was arrested on Friday January 21 on suspicion of breaching her restraining order after she allegedly branded her ex-husband Kieran Hayler’s fiancée Michelle Penticost a ‘gutter sl*g’ in ‘abusive messages’.

Katie said: ‘If people could see, that night, what was going on in my head . . . I wasn’t telling myself not to get in the car. I just thought, “I need to go”. So I’m lucky nothing happened’

Following her release after a 12-hour interrogation, with officers now examining her phone for evidence, her fiancé Carl Woods was said to be ‘furious and embarrassed’ at her behaviour, but an insider claimed that he has ‘zero intention’ of leaving her.

A source told MailOnline: ‘Katie is teetering on the brink of the biggest crisis in her entire life, but Carl has no plans to walk away. All Carl has done in the past few days is rallied round.’

The insider continued: ‘Carl will be standing by Katie and will wait for her as long as it takes, even if she is jailed. Katie is leaning heavily on Carl who has also been there to support the children at what is a really difficult time.’

Katie, who was handed a five-year restraining order forbidding her from contacting Michelle directly or indirectly in 2019 after hurling a ‘tirade of abuse’ at her, could now face up to five years in prison if she is charged and found guilty.

She also dodged a potential jail term last month after paying £7,350 of fines she owed for driving offences. Katie had been listed to appear at Crawley Magistrates’ Court over non-payment of £7,358 in fines dating back to January 2019.

Success: Later in the documentary, Harvey is seen making progress at his residential school, leaving Katie confident she made the right choice in letting him move out

However, in January court staff confirmed the fines had been paid and Katie was no longer expected in court. She had been issued with a court summons after magistrates heard she had failed to pay back a single penny of her fines.

At her last court hearing the mother-of-five was warned she faced an immediate prison sentence if she stepped out of line. District Judge Amanda Kelly said: ‘If you put a foot wrong in the weeks and months ahead then you will certainly go to prison.’

At the hearing her solicitor, Joe Harrington, said that Katie’s finances were so ‘disorganised and chaotic’ that a £7.50 toll for using the Dart Crossing had escalated into a £1,400 debt due to her failure to deal with it. 

If you have been affected by this story, you can call the Samaritans on 116 123 or visit www.samaritans.org 

Katie Price’s legal history 

October 2003 Escaped a speeding charge on a technicality after cops failed to arrest her within 12 weeks. Her Range Rover was allegedly clocked at 70mph in a 40mph zone. Also in October, charges against Price, for an alleged assault in a nightclub, were dropped when police failed to arrest her within 12 weeks.

June 5, 2008 Given three penalty points, fined £200 and ordered to pay £80 costs at Feltham magistrates’ court for talking on her mobile phone while driving on April 18.

January 7, 2009 Let off on a legal technicality by Brighton magistrates after allegedly breaking a 30mph limit and not providing the identity of the driver to police.

July 7, 2010 Convicted in her absence by Crawley magistrates after cameras caught her speeding at 99 mph on September 16, 2009. Her lawyer argued she was only speeding because she was being hounded by the paparazzi, but police said there were no other speeding vehicles around. She was fined £250, ordered to pay £500 prosecution costs and given four points on her licence.

September 28, 2010 Convicted at Mid-Sussex Magistrates’ Court for failing to be in proper control of her 7.5-ton lurid pink horsebox after veering into another lane in Sussex on February 19. She was fined £1,000, ordered to pay £650 court costs and a £15 victim surcharge and given three points on her licence, taking her tally to 10.

December 1, 2010 Banned from driving ban for six months after she was caught on speed camera travelling at 83mph in a 70mph zone on the A23 in Pyecombe, West Sussex on 10 December 2009. Ms Price, who did not attend the hearing, pleaded guilty to the charge. In her absence, she was fined £1,000 and given three penalty points on her license (taking her total at that time to 13 points). This took her over the 12-point limit and brought an automatic six-month driving ban and so she was disqualified from driving for six months.  

August 31, 2012 Barred from driving on the roads for 12 months, after failing to respond to two speeding tickets. She had been caught speeding in London on September 5 and September 6 2011. The glamour model argued that all of her post was dealt with by her mother and she had never seen the prosecution warnings. Ms Price, who already had six points on her licence at the time, was given six more and banned for 12 months. She was also fined £400. 

February 16, 2018 Banned from driving for six months after doing 60mph on the 50mph A24. She already had points on her license. Following the incident in Dial Post, West Sussex in 2017, Ms Price failed to tell police when the speeding ticket arrived and was charged with failing to provide details about the person driving. She failed to show up at magistrates’ court and was given a six-month ban and a £750 fine.

July 28, 2018 In July she was was questioned by police after photographs emerged of her getting behind the wheel of her car while still banned from the road. Pictures revealed Ms Price driving her grey Ford Fiesta home from Gatwick with her youngest kids Jett, aged four, and Bunny, aged three. She handed herself into police and took to Instagram to insist that she thought the ban was over – but as soon as she realised it wasn’t, confessed her wrongdoing to authorities to avoid a ‘guilty conscience.’

September 26, 2018 Crashed her £63,000 Ranger Rover on September 26, while allegedly on her mobile phone. The crash was reported to the police. Marketing executive Katie Pugh, 23, told MailOnline that the troubled star rear-ended her Mercedes as they were stuck in traffic on the A3 in Roehampton, Surrey. Pugh said she looked up into her rear-view mirror and noticed Ms Price appearing to be looking at her phone moments before the collision at around 5.30PM on September 26. 

October 10, 2018 Arrested on suspicion of drink-driving in the earlier hours of the morning on October 10, after being found by police in her garish pink Range Rover in Woolwich, East London. Ms Price had allegedly been partying with ex-boyfriend Kris Boyson helping him celebrate his 30th birthday when her car ended up hitting a parked car. She took a roadside breath test and was taken to Plumstead Police station where she was released after a night in the cells. Ms Price was then photographed driving her car without wearing her seatbelt, just 36 hours after her drink driving arrest – an infraction that carries a £100 fine.

December 2018 Charged by postal requisition over her drink-driving charge

January 2019 Caught driving while disqualified, and was given another three months.

February 2019 Served a further three month ban after being convicted of drink-driving in October 2018.

June 2019  Price is fined after shouting abuse at ex-Hayler’s girlfriend Michelle Penticost in a school playground, in Shipley, West Sussex. Price was issued with a five-year restraining order against her and ordered to pay £606 in fines and court costs.

Autumn 2019 Issued with her sixth ban – a two-year disqualification –  which she appealed. It was reduced to 18 months.

March 2021 Gets behind the wheel of boyfriend Carl Wood’s Range Rover weeks before her 18-month ban is lifted. Questioned by police over the matter

September 28: Ms Price is allegedly hospitalised and arrested for drink-driving after being involved in an early hours crash.   

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