Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Katie is Loosing it with ITV show
Katie Price says she “feels sick” when she watches herself on Loose Women two years ago as she looks “dead in the eyes”.
Having since checked into the Priory where she was treated for severe trauma, Katie says she has “turned her life around”.
But despite being a regular panellist while mentally unwell, she claims she currently wouldn’t be invited back on Loose Women.
At the clinic, Katie had the courage to deal with her mental struggles, and found it liberating. And she said she could relate to Meghan Markle as they both had to “go out and put a brave face on” while struggling.
“I was doing Loose Women for two years,” says Katie, 42.
“When I look back it makes me feel sick. Those years, I was bad mentally... I look dead in my eyes.
“I feel like saying to them, ‘But you had me on when I was at my illest? But now I’m fresh, you wouldn’t offer me that back again?’ I’m not saying they wouldn’t... but they wouldn’t at the minute. I feel like saying, ‘You’ll get the best out of me now, whereas then, you had me at my worst, when mentally I was really going through it.’ I wasn’t well but I was still able to perform like a seal.”
Katie adds that she felt “afraid” to voice how unwell she was.
She explains: “Every time we had our morning meetings I would always come in with another drama,” she tells Annie Mac’s Changes podcast. “They’d be like, ‘Oh my God, Kate, it’s exhausting.’ I would sit there thinking ‘I know, can’t one of you just say ‘Kate are you alright?’ It’s like I’m trying to say can someone ask.”
Loose Women declined to comment.
Katie says the Priory helped her learn about “accepting yourself ”, as she relived harrowing details of her past. She checked in when finally: “My poor little mind couldn’t take it. I am now the best I’ll be.”