Junior and Princess Andre, children of Katie Price and Peter Andre, have spoken out about the emotional toll of their mother's public breakdown in the late 2010s. Appearing in their mother's new documentary, "Katie Price: Nothing To Hide," the siblings shared tearful memories of feeling neglected and scared as they navigated their mother's struggles with depression and cocaine addiction.
At the time of their mother's most public difficulties, Junior was 13 and Princess was 10. They described how they began to fend for themselves and their younger siblings, Jett and Bunny, who were then four and three years old. Junior, now 21, recalled the period as "the most difficult time of my life, our lives." Princess agreed, stating she couldn't talk to their mother because she "wasn't there," and when she was, she "wasn't there." Junior remembered trying to figure out how to microwave food to feed them.
Princess shared a particularly poignant memory of receiving a blanket sprayed with her mother's perfume as a form of connection. "I used to go home and feel so lonely I would just cuddle the blanket and cry," she recounted. Junior added that he missed his mother intensely.
Recalling a vivid experience, Junior described waking up in his mother's bed at 3:30 a.m. to loud noises and seeing his mother enter the room in a state that scared him. "She was obviously on stuff and it scared me, I'd never seen my mum like this," he said. He noted that this marked a pattern where his mother, when not in the right headspace, was unable to parent them. He expressed missing the immense love she had given him when he was younger.
"Mum was on drugs and she couldn't look after us and that was the reality of it," Junior stated. He added that he eventually recognized the environment as unhealthy and needed to leave. At age 14, Junior moved to live with his father, Peter Andre, while Princess chose to stay with their mother. "I always wanted to be there for her but she didn't understand that at the time because she was so hooked up in her own problems," Princess explained.
Junior credited his father's stability for helping him regain his sanity during that time, while he hoped his mother would recover. He admitted that his mother's struggles made him feel inadequate because she wasn't prioritizing her own well-being for him and his siblings. The situation escalated in September 2021 when Katie Price, who was experiencing suicidal thoughts, flipped her car while driving under the influence. She later pleaded guilty to drink-driving, driving while disqualified, and driving without insurance.
Following the crash, Price was given a suspended sentence, a driving ban, and a court-mandated stay in rehab, where she was diagnosed with ADHD. Reflecting on his mother's recovery, Junior expressed relief that she is still alive and believes the incident was a wake-up call. "She helped herself and she got off the drugs," he said. He feels a duty of care to his mother and believes he has "got my mum back."
Junior also expressed a hope that his mother would find more self-validation and rely less on external approval, particularly from men. He commented on her marriage to Lee Andrews, whom she reportedly met and married within days, as a "silliest, stupidest thing."
In the documentary, Price discussed her ideal partner, while it also emerged that her fourth husband, Lee Andrews, had been accused by ex-partners of scams. He denied these allegations. Price's marriage to Andrews followed previous marriages to Peter Andre, Alex Reid, and Kieran Hayler, the father of her youngest children.