Katie Price details the trauma of being raped in a park at the age of seven and admits she ‘avoided’ her ordeal for years – before sharing that her daughter Princess ‘still has therapy’ after South Africa gunpoint hell

Katie Price has reflected on the traumatic moment that she was raped in a park when she was just seven years old, admitting she ‘avoided’ her ordeal for years.

The former glamour model, 45, has detailed her horrific ordeal in a candid new interview on Elizabeth Day’s How To Fail podcast, and went onto reveal that she was violently abused by her first boyfriend before being cheated on by another.

Katie, who revealed that she’s been diagnosed with severe ADHD, also shared that after she and her family were held at gunpoint in South Africa in 2018, her daughter Princess, 16, still has therapy.

The star previously said that the carjacking led her to reach breaking point, suffering a mental breakdown in 2018, and a failed suicide attempt where she ‘knocked herself out and had black eyes’ – after which she sought treatment for PTSD.

Discussing the trauma she endured during her childhood, Katie told Elizabeth: ‘I got raped in a park when I was seven, then I was nearly abducted.

‘Then I worked with a photographer, the police knocked on the door and he used to drug girls with milkshakes, but I never took it. 

‘One day he said ”I want you to be naked in a white wet shirt” and I said ”no” and then ”yeah”, so my start with men wasn’t good. 

‘My first boyfriend beat me up, the next would rip my clothes up and I would have to go ring my mum naked from a telephone box, then the next one cheated on me. 

‘So none of them were healthy and you become insecure and needy it becomes toxic. If men hadn’t been in my life I wouldn’t be bankrupt, mentally abused etc its to do with men. 

‘I don’t know if that is why I do modelling because it’s like you can see me but can’t touch me.’

Katie went onto add: ‘The rape never bothered me until I did Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, and I was embarrassed. I cried because I never thought about it but it obviously bothered me. 

‘My mum had a cup of tea at the cafe and I remember the police coming and looking at my knickers, and I remember the man 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.

While discussing her five-week stay at the The Priory rehabilitation facility in 2020, Katie revealed her experience with abuse was ‘part of’ her later choices in life.

She said: ‘What happened to me as a child was part of it to. They say that’s why I’m weak with men. I just pick t***ers, don’t I?’

Katie previously spoke about the experience on Annie Mac’s Changes podcast.

During the chat she admitted male figures ‘have always let me down’ as she discussed the horrifying moment.

Reality star Katie said: ‘The thing that’s always been wrong in my life is men. That is from an early age. I was raped as a kid. At seven. That is in my first book. I was in a park.’

Elsewhere during the new interview, Katie revealed how her mum Amy vets her boyfriends and quizzes them on if they are after her money.

Katie explained: ‘My mum has embarrassed me so many times. She’ll turn up at my house and say to the latest boyfriend: ‘Have you got a job? Or are you just going to ponce off my daughter?’ She is ruthless and it turns out she’s always right.’

The mother of five, who is currently dating ex-Love Islander Carl Woods, said: ‘With Carl, mum’s already told him not to mess me around and so far he’s passed the t***er test.

‘He’s got his own money, he’s not interested in fame and hates anything to do with Jordan [her model alter ego].

Katie also reflected on her turbulent romantic history, which includes three marriages and a string of failed relationships.

She said: ‘I’m exhausted with relationships I’d like to say me and Pete were real, but everything was 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 went onto reflect on the terrifying moment that she and her family were held at gunpoint in South Africa in 2018.

The mother-of-five was thrown out of the vehicle by the attackers, during her journey from Johannesburg to Swaziland in two people carriers with the production crew. 

The vehicles were ransacked of laptops, iPads, passports, cash and jewellery – but the robbers left behind a fortune in camera gear which the crew had stored on board. The attackers were never apprehended.

She said: ‘Junior, Princess, me and the film crew. They were holding guns at us and the guy was inappropriately touching me with the kids on the back seat. 

‘Princess has had to have therapy and she doesn’t like going out at night now.’

Katie also shared that she’s been diagnosed with ‘severe ADHD’, telling Elizabeth: ‘I make the wrong choices and the wrong decisions, and really I’m innocent and gullible.’

‘And then there is that side to me where I have to do something and we’ve worked out in my brain that I’m out there and I really love nothing more than being at home.’

During the interview, Katie also advised young girls to steer clear of plastic surgery altogether, claiming it is ‘damaging.’

She said there is ‘nothing worse’ than girls in their 20s getting filler, but insisted she’s not a ‘hypocrite’ as she didn’t have anything done to her face until she was in her 40s.

‘There’s nothing worse than when these young girls now, and I will say it, in their early 20s, who are all getting fillers, all getting lips, all getting the boobs,’ she said.

‘I’m not a hypocrite, but I didn’t start doing my face until I was in my 40s.’ 

She added: ‘Yes, I had a boob job, but I didn’t even have fillers. I didn’t have Botox till I was like 27/28.’

Katie admitted that she did try and have her lips injected but it was before the technique had been perfected so she ‘looked like a duck.’

The queen of plastic surgery, who is said to have made more than 17 breast augmentations, complained that young girls today now all ‘look the same’ due to a preoccupation with lip and face fillers.

She said: ‘All the girls look the same now, and I think, ‘what are they going to look like then when they’re my age?’

Katie, who is mother to Harvey, 21, Junior, 18, and Princess, 16, said that her obsession with having surgery has put her children off ever getting anything done.

‘They’re so used to it I think I’ve put them off for life,’ she said.

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