KERRY KATONA: MY DAUGHTERS LIVED IN My girls pleaded with me to escape George

She added: “For me that was the nail in the coffin. I just thought, you’re a dad, have some self-control.

“He has had so much power over me for so long, but I can’t let my children go back to that, even if I could.”

Kerry recalls how she used to plead with her own mother to leave an abusive partner when she was a child.

Now she fears history could be repeated with her daughters.

She said: “I should have seen the warning signs and walked away.

“I don’t want my daughters to think it’s acceptable to be in a relationship like that or for my son to think it’s acceptable to treat women that way either.”

Kerry, whose three-year marriage to George ended last month, claims he was a controlling partner and tried to cut her off from her friends as well as becoming verbally abusive and threatening.

The Atomic Kitten singer said: “He would spit in my face all the time and I would think that’s OK because he’s not giving me a hiding.

“But it’s one of the most degrading things you can have done to you.

“George likes to hold a grudge. He didn’t like me having friends. He wanted me all to himself.

“There were arguments all the time. Even my relationship with my children went on hold because he wanted all of my attention.

“I feel so guilty f or that and am determined to make it up to them.” Kerry, who was previously married to former Westlife singer Brian McFadden, 37, and taxi driver Mark Croft, 45, admitted that when she finds love she “falls hard”. Her relationships are driven by her need to give her children what she did not have growing up – a fath father figure. “When Brian left me I felt like a failure as a wife and a m mum,” Kerry said. “My dre dream was not to be rich or fa famous, it was to have a husbandhu and kids – every everybody wants that fairyt fairytale happy ending. And b being an only child who ha had three sets of foster parentsp I so desper desperately wanted that for them.” K Kerry, who grew up in Warrington, Cheshire, and was put into foster care at the age of 16, said: “I saw my mum go through hell being battered by her fellas.

“I thought, ‘I’d never be like that,’ and now I’ve been in a relationship that had its own complications and difficulties I realise how hard it is to walk away.”

Fiery

Kerry, mum to Molly, 16, Lily, 14, Heidi, 10, Maxwell, nine, and Dylan Jorge, three, says she ended her latest marriage when George flew into a jealous rage because she was going into Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother.

She says police had to help eject him from their home in Crowborough, East Sussex, after Kerry alleged he had threatened her. “It is a control thing for George,” Kerry said.

“He has a fiery temper and although I’m the breadwinner, it felt like he resented my job and my career.reer.

“It turned into a heated argument and I had to pull out of the show.” w.”

The row was not the first fight to separate the couple.

They previously split in October 2015 after 13 months together, with George appearing in court a monthh later.

He was accused of beatingng Kerry up and arming himself with a Taser stun gun.

But the charges were dropped opped when Kerry refused to give evidence against him.

She took George back, ack, claiming it was solely for the sake of her kids, including his daughter Dylan Jorge.

She said: “Dylan Jorge kept saying, ‘Where’s Daddy, I miss him’ and that pulled at my heart-eart-