Katie Price has reflected on the traumatic moment she was raped in a park when she was just seven years old, admitting she ‘avoided’ her ordeal for years.
The former glamor model, 45, has detailed her horrific ordeal in a candid new interview on How to Fail by Elizabeth Day podcast, and further revealed that she was violently abused by her first boyfriend before being cheated on by another.
Katie, who revealed she has been diagnosed with severe ADHD, also revealed that after she and her family were held at gunpoint in South Africa in 2018, her daughter Princess, 16, is still receiving therapy.
The star previously said the carjacking caused her to reach a breaking point, suffering a nervous breakdown in 2018 and a failed suicide attempt where she “knocked herself out and got black eyes” – after which she sought treatment for PTSD.
Discussing the trauma she suffered growing up, Katie told Elizabeth: “I was raped in a park at the age of seven, and then I was almost kidnapped.
Katie Price has reflected on the traumatic moment she was raped in a park when she was just seven years old, admitting she ‘avoided’ her ordeal for years
‘Then I was working with a photographer, the police were knocking on the door and he was drugging girls with milkshakes, but I never took it.
‘One day he said, ‘I want you naked in a white, wet shirt’ and I said ‘no’ and then ‘yes’, so my start with men was not good.
‘My first boyfriend beat me up, the next one tore my clothes to pieces and I had to call my mother naked from a phone box, and the next one cheated on me.
“So none of them were healthy and when you become insecure and needy, it becomes toxic. If there weren’t men in my life, I wouldn’t be bankrupt, mentally abused, etc. It has to do with men.
“I don’t know if that’s why I model, because it’s like you can see me but you can’t touch me.”
Katie continued: ‘The rape never bothered me until I did Piers Morgan’s Life Stories and I felt ashamed. I cried because I had never thought about it, but it was clearly bothering me.
“My mother was having a cup of tea in the cafe and I remember the police passing by and looking at my panties, and I remember the man as clear as day.”
Katie previously admitted that the harrowing experience has affected her relationships with men during a 2021 interview with The Sunday Times Magazine.
In a candid new interview, the former glamor model (pictured right as a child) shared that she was “embarrassed” when she first opened up about her ordeal in 2009.
Katie also revealed that after she and her family were held at gunpoint in South Africa in 2018, her daughter Princess, 16, is still receiving therapy.
She said, “Junior, Princess, me and the film crew. They pointed guns at us and the man touched me inappropriately while the children were in the backseat’ (Katie and Princess photo)
Discussing her five-week stay at The Priory rehabilitation center in 2020, Katie revealed that her experience with abuse was ‘part of’ her later life choices.
She said: ‘What happened to me as a child was part of it. They say that’s why I’m weak towards men. I just choose t***ers, don’t I?’
Katie previously spoke about the experience on Annie Mac’s Changes podcast.
During the chat, she admitted that male figures have “always let me down” as she discussed the horrific moment.
Reality star Katie said: ‘What has always been wrong in my life is men. That’s been from a young age. I was raped as a child. At seven o’clock. That’s in my first book. I was in a park.’
Elsewhere during the new interview, Katie revealed how her mum Amy investigates her boyfriends and questions them about whether they are after her money.
Katie explained, “My mother has embarrassed me so many times. She comes to my house and says to the newest boyfriend, “Do you have a job? Or are you just going to jump my daughter?’ She’s ruthless and it turns out she’s always right.”
The mum-of-five, who is currently in a relationship with ex-Love Islander Carl Woods, said: ‘With Carl mum has already told him not to bother me and so far he has passed the test.
‘He has his own money, he’s not interested in fame and hates anything to do with Jordan (her alter ego model).
Katie also reflected on her turbulent romantic history, which includes three marriages and a series of failed relationships.
Discussing the trauma she suffered growing up, Katie told Elizabeth: “I was raped in a park when I was seven, and then I was almost kidnapped.”
She said: ‘I’m exhausted by the relationships. I’d like to say Pete and I were real, but it was all done through TV and magazines.
“The others weren’t real, they were just rebounds because I wanted the family life. I’ve never had a one night stand.’
Katie reflected further on the terrifying moment she and her family were held at gunpoint in South Africa in 2018.
The mother of five was thrown from the vehicle by the attackers while traveling from Johannesburg to Swaziland in two passenger cars with the production crew.
The vehicles were looted of laptops, iPads, passports, cash and jewelry, but the robbers left behind a fortune in camera equipment that the crew had stored on board. The attackers were never arrested.
She said, “Junior, Princess, me and the film crew. They pointed guns at us and the man touched me inappropriately while the children were in the backseat.
“Princess has had therapy and now she doesn’t like going out at night.”
Katie also revealed that she has been diagnosed with ‘severe ADHD’ and told Elizabeth: ‘I make the wrong choices and the wrong decisions, and basically I’m innocent and gullible.’
“And then there’s that side of me where I have to do something and we’ve worked out in my head that I’m out there and there’s really nothing I love more than being at home.”
During the interview, Katie also advised young girls to abstain from plastic surgery altogether, claiming it is ‘harmful’.
She said there is “nothing worse” than girls in their 20s getting filler, but insisted she is not a “hypocrite” as she didn’t have anything done to her face until she was 40.
“There’s nothing worse than when these young girls now, and I’ll say it in their early 20s, all get fillers, all get lips, all get boobs,” she said.
“I’m not a hypocrite, but I didn’t start working on my face until I was 40.”
She added, “Yes, I had a boob job, but I didn’t even have fillers. I didn’t have Botox until I was 27/28.’
Katie admitted she tried getting her lips injected, but that was before the technique was perfected to make her “look like a duck.”
During the interview, Katie also advised young girls to avoid plastic surgery altogether, claiming it is ‘harmful’.
The queen of plastic surgery, who is said to have performed more than 17 breast enlargements, complained that young girls these days all “look the same” due to a preoccupation with lip and facial fillers.
She said: ‘All the girls look the same now and I think, ‘What will they look like when they’re my age?’
Katie, mum to Harvey, 21, Junior, 18, and Princess, 16, said her obsession with surgery has meant her children never get anything done.
“They’re so used to it that I think I’ve put them off for life,” she said.
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