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convinced Katie was The One he was getting an engagement ring made.
“Katie said she had never been engaged properly. It had all been for TV, so I wanted to surprise her and propose to her,” he said. “One of my mates is a jeweller in Hatton Garden and he was doing the ring.
CRACKS
“I was ready to go and speak to her dad and ask for his permission. I think deep down she knew I was getting an engagement ring made.”
But the cracks started to show three weeks ago when Katie began having wild nights out without Kris. “She was going out all night and not messaging me until she got home at 2am. I started to think something was up.”
On August 22, Katie was pictured holding hands with wealthy Essex businessman Alex.
Kris said: “That day she was apologising and begging me to take her back. She wanted me to give her another chance and said she had just had dinner with him.
“So I said, ‘You know what? I will give you another chance’.”
The two then enjoyed a holiday in Scotland where Kris told Katie exactly
But Kris soon found out Katie wouldn’t give up party lifestyle how he felt. “I said, ‘Look, do you want to make this relationship work? Because I am fully committed. If you do, I will forget everything and we can move on. If you don’t, I will go home now and you can move on with him.’
“Then she told me, ‘I am here, trust me, I want to marry you, I want to have kids with you’. So I had to take her word for it.”
Kris says he even joked he would “stop making that engagement ring?”, but that Katie insisted, ‘No, we are still He was planning to propose Kris ‘fell hard’ for reality star Katie
getting married. You are the one for me, you are perfect.’”
But just 48 hours after that, Katie was back in the arms of Alex on holiday in Marbella.
Kris says: “As soon as we got back things weren’t right. We flew back on the Tuesday together and she said, ‘Love you loads’.
“I said, ‘Love you too and I will speak to you later’.
“And I didn’t speak to her until midnight that night. And then the
next day she flew out to Marbella for a hen do and I knew he was out there all along. Two days later I text her saying, ‘I’m in love with you, I want to have kids with you, we’ve got so many plans ahead’.
“But she never responded. That’s the last time I messaged her. I was willing to take on her kids and I would have adopted Harvey. I wanted to settle down and have kids but she wanted the party life. That is the reality of it.”
Now Kris thinks Katie’s erratic behaviour is a sign her life is taking a more sinister turn.
He said: “When I see her now I feel for her, she is clearly not well. She isn’t in a right head space. I just feel like something is not right and she is struggling with something.”
Kris now believes Katie – with broken marriages to Peter Andre, Alex Reid and Kieran Hayler behind her – is too interested in partying to ever settle down again.
DRINK
“The reality was we drifted apart because I was stopping her drinking,” he said. “I was making sure the kids were put first, and that she came across well. “She wasn’t out of control around the kids, but when she has a drink she goes all out. Most nights we would sit in and watch films. But there was a certain side to her – the party side that wasn’t being fulfilled. But part of me thinks she should just rein it in.” Despite the pain Katie has caused him, Kris still worries about her. “I will always be there and I am willing to be there and help her,” he said. “I promised her I always would.” Does he think she can ever be faithful? “Maybe if the person she was with was offering her exactly what she wants then yes she could,” he said. “But with me she sure as hell wasn’t.” halina.watts@mirror.co.uk Kris has asked that the fee for this interview goes to a charity connected to Katie’s son, Harvey.