Katie Price has admitted her suicide attempt was “the culmination of a long breakdown” after divorcing her third husband Kieran Hayler.
The former glamour model, 46, has reflected on the emotional time she tried to end her life after reaching “breaking point” following her divorce.
Katie, who is in a happy relationship with JJ Slater, checked herself into the Priory shortly after finding herself using drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism during her suicide attempt.
Speaking to You Magazine, Katie opened up to Bryony Gordon about the emotional and difficult time in her life.
She said, “People don’t realize what I’ve been through.”
Katie Price, 46, has admitted her suicide attempt was ‘the culmination of a long breakdown’ after divorcing her third husband Kieran Hayler
The former glamour model reflected on the emotional time she attempted to end her life after reaching ‘breaking point’ following her divorce (pictured together in 2017)
For example, they don’t know that she attempted suicide because she is divorced from her third husband, Hayler.
‘I just didn’t want to be here anymore. I thought, “What’s the point? There’s no one here, no one to help, no one understands what I’m feeling.”
“I woke up and thought, ‘What the f***? I can’t do this to my children.’ I was at breaking point.”
Katie went to the private hospital The Priory and realised the suicide attempt was the result of a long-term breakdown.
She used cocaine to escape and her friends and family were shocked. She told me she is not addicted.
Katie added: ‘I think there’s this image of me being a drinker and a cokehead, but I’ve never been that, ever. Yeah, when I was younger I would go out and get fucked. Who wouldn’t?’
‘It [cocaine] is the dirtiest. If you’re not in the right place, it taps you on the shoulder and says, “I’m here, I can help you.” For me, it wasn’t a drug that made me want to party.
“It was more of a way to block everything out, to completely suppress myself. I was like this,” she mimes, looking down and at herself. “It was like I was in rigor mortis.”
While most people who use cocaine get an intense high, it disabled Price. This is typical of people who suffer from ADHD, and it was after her time at the Priory that she was formally diagnosed.
Katie, who is in a happy relationship with JJ Slater (pictured), admitted herself to the Priory shortly after finding herself dependent on drugs and alcohol
Speaking to You Magazine, Katie opened up to Bryony Gordon about the emotional and difficult time in her life
“I hate labels,” she says, “but it’s made me understand more. I found all my school reports and they all say the same thing: ‘Dreamer. Gets bored. So capable, but gets distracted easily and can’t focus.’ It all makes sense.”
Does she think her life would have been different if she had been diagnosed as a child?
“I don’t know. And maybe I wouldn’t be where I am now. So I don’t regret anything, but now that I’m older, I understand that I have to hold back and evaluate situations more.”