Harvey has taught me patience, he’s made me grow up in some ways..I’m still crazy in other ways
Ex-model says love for kids saved her life
Mummy’s here at weekends, cakes, days out, kisses. That won’t change, I won’t let it
having treatment, Katie still saw her eldest child. “Just because you’re in the Priory, it doesn’t make you cut off from everything,” she says.
In college, meanwhile, Harvey was having a whale of a time, making friends, baking and going swimming.
Having worried he wouldn’t like being surrounded by new people, Katie, who was told after his birth her son would never walk or talk, is “so of the way he has settled in – and his skills with an iPad. “He’s amazing on that” she says. “I don’t know how he knows how to use everything on it – because I don’t.
“The way he draws on it, makes music on his keyboard, transfers it to his iPad, finds pictures and makes stories with music. He’s so clever.”
Katie has also learnt plenty from him. “He taught me patience – I’m not
patient with other things but I am with Harvey. He’s made me grow up in some ways.” Laughing, she acknowledges: “I’m still crazy in other ways though.” Telling of her “unconproud” ditional love” Katie admits she can’t stop going to visit him.
“All he’s ever known is Mummy. Mummy’s here at weekends, cuddles, kisses, cakes, days out. So why should it change? I won’t let it.”
In truth, Katie, who recently had more cosmetic surgery, needs to see him as much as he needs to see her.
“It’s nice for me to go there, get away from everything,” she says. Katie shares her other four kids with Peter Andre and Kieran Hayler. But with Harvey, whose dad is ex-footballer Dwight Yorke, it’s just the two of them.
“No one can ever take that bond from us,” she says simply. “We’ll always have it, no matter what.”
Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next, BBC1, Monday, March 7, 9pm.