Katie Price responds after Peter Andre hit out following her comments about daughter Princess
Katie Price has issued a response after Peter Andre criticised her comments about Princess Andre's ITV reality show.
In her new docuseries, The Princess Diaries, the 18-year-old content creator has opened up about what it's been like growing up in the public eye around her celebrity parents, Price and Andre.
The pair met on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! in the early 2000s and went on to marry and have two children together, Princess and Junior, 20.
Their divorce in 2009 was highly publicised, while it was believed that both parents shared joint custody of their children.
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However, Andre has claimed that Princess and her brother have been in his care since 2018.
In a post shared on Instagram on Thursday (14 August), the dad wrote: "For well-documented reasons, and for their safety, Junior and Princess came into my care in 2018 and remained with me until they reached adulthood.
"In 2019, the family courts issued a legally binding order to enforce this arrangement. I have never made this public before out of respect for my children.
"In 2011 and 2015, publicly documented court cases found my ex-wife had made false claims. She was ordered to pay substantial damages and legal costs, and to apologise to me and my management.
"The same falsehoods are being repeated today."
In response, Price's representative told the Metro that she 'will no longer be gaslighted and bullied as she once was'.
"Kate is in a much better and clear headspace and is at peace with the situation, this was in the past and she doesn’t feel the need to bring up tit for tat comments," the statement read.
"But more importantly she’s dealing with this the right way and it’s now in her lawyers hands."
Price claimed she reached out to her ex and said she initially wasn't pleased about being 'banned' from appearing in her daughter's new show.
"There's no reason why both parents just can't be there to support her. Now this isn't about me. I have to clarify this," Price said on her podcast.
"I don't care that I'm not in Princess' show.
"I don't need to raise my profile by being on Princess' show, I do enough stuff,"
Now, in The Princess Diaries, Princess insisted that she doesn't have an issue with her mum, but did say that she 'saw things kids shouldn't see'.
She admitted that she struggled watching her mother fall into a 'dark' place following her 2018 split from Kieran Hayler.
"I wish I could have had a happier childhood, I had so much on my plate at such a young age and had things at the back of my mind," she said.
"My mum and Kieran split up when I was 10 years old, we were close to him. He was in our lives for five years. He did a lot of stuff and when they split everything went downhill."
The influencer added: "I'm not healed or fully recovered from it but mum has fixed herself compared to how she was back then."
"She spoke to me about it and she apologised and I never wanted an apology but it was a lot that she acknowledged it and she realised she needed to prioritise us, we now talk a lot and she is now my best friend."
LADbible Group has contacted Katie Price and Peter Andre's representatives for comment.
Topics: Katie Price, Princess Andre, Celebrity
Anish Vij