Katie Price insists she doesn’t want to ‘self-destruct’ after drink-drive crash

Katie Price has said she has ‘no one to blame but myself’ for her drink-drive crash last year when she flipped her uninsured BMW X5 into a hedge.

The former glamour model, 43, who is now in therapy, said she needs to learn how to cope with difficult personal situations and doesn’t want to ‘self-destruct’.

It comes as the star also credited her five children with saving her life after she contemplated taking her own life a few years ago before her stint in The Priory.

In new BBC documentary Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next, Katie reportedly reveals that she struggled to cope when her son Harvey moved into a residential school three hours away from their Sussex home last year.

A month after he moved out, Katie flipped her car and was handed a 16-week suspended sentence and two-year driving ban. 

In scenes from the documentary seen by The Sun, Katie takes the blame for the horrific accident, saying: ‘There’s no one to blame for me getting in that car but myself.

‘But if people could see, that night, what was going on in my head . . . I wasn’t telling myself not to get in the car. I just thought, “I need to go”. So I’m lucky nothing happened.’ 

The star added: ‘I need to learn to cope when these situations happen because I don’t want to go into self-destruct.’

Katie’s family reportedly said her mental health was negatively impacted when Harvey, who has autism and Prader-Willi syndrome, left the family home. 

Later in the documentary, which airs on BBC1 on March 10, Harvey is seen making progress at his residential school, leaving Katie confident she made the right choice in letting him move out. 

The star said she is learning to ‘let go’ and said there comes a point when you have to let other people help.  

It comes as Katie told how she previously tried to take her own life a few years ago but credits her children with saving her.

She told Radio Times: ‘I tried to kill myself before I ended up in the Priory. The only reason I didn’t was because of my children. So, if my kids weren’t here I wouldn’t be here today. Fact. The kids saved me.’ 

Katie was spotted outside the rehabilitation centre in February 2020, following a host of rehab stints over the past two years in the wake of legal issues and substance abuse.

Before her 2020 visits to The Priory, Katie last visited the facility in September 2018 when she spent 28 days as an inpatient after her family urged her to seek help following wild partying antics in Mallorca. 

Katie previously said of the low point in her life: ‘I wanted to commit suicide. I planned it, I did everything… Everything was on top of me, it was a build up.

‘I’m only human, I’m strong but there’s only so much you can take and I could have either committed suicide or got help.’

Harvey’s father is Dwight Yorke, while Katie is also mother to Junior, 16, and Princess, 14, with ex-husband Peter Andre and Jett, eight, and Bunny, seven, with ex-husband Kieran Hayler. 

Following her crash in September, Katie escaped with a 16-week suspended prison sentence and a two-year driving ban because she complied with a requirement to attend the £6,800-a-week rehab centre – despite going out shopping while staying at the facility. 

The media personality was told by a judge that she deserved to spend Christmas behind bars after committing her ninth motoring offence.

Her ‘drama free’ year didn’t last long, as she was arrested on Friday January 21 on suspicion of breaching her restraining order after she allegedly branded her ex-husband Kieran Hayler’s fiancée Michelle Penticost a ‘gutter sl*g’ in ‘abusive messages’.

Following her release after a 12-hour interrogation, with officers now examining her phone for evidence, her fiancé Carl Woods was said to be ‘furious and embarrassed’ at her behaviour, but an insider claimed that he has ‘zero intention’ of leaving her.

A source told MailOnline: ‘Katie is teetering on the brink of the biggest crisis in her entire life, but Carl has no plans to walk away. All Carl has done in the past few days is rallied round.’

The insider continued: ‘Carl will be standing by Katie and will wait for her as long as it takes, even if she is jailed. Katie is leaning heavily on Carl who has also been there to support the children at what is a really difficult time.’

Katie, who was handed a five-year restraining order forbidding her from contacting Michelle directly or indirectly in 2019 after hurling a ‘tirade of abuse’ at her, could now face up to five years in prison if she is charged and found guilty.

She also dodged a potential jail term last month after paying £7,350 of fines she owed for driving offences. Katie had been listed to appear at Crawley Magistrates’ Court over non-payment of £7,358 in fines dating back to January 2019.

However, in January court staff confirmed the fines had been paid and Katie was no longer expected in court. She had been issued with a court summons after magistrates heard she had failed to pay back a single penny of her fines.

At her last court hearing the mother-of-five was warned she faced an immediate prison sentence if she stepped out of line. District Judge Amanda Kelly said: ‘If you put a foot wrong in the weeks and months ahead then you will certainly go to prison.’

At the hearing her solicitor, Joe Harrington, said that Katie’s finances were so ‘disorganised and chaotic’ that a £7.50 toll for using the Dart Crossing had escalated into a £1,400 debt due to her failure to deal with it. 

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