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Katie Price has named the British TV star she claimed raped her more than 20 years ago.
A spokesperson for Katie Price has declined to comment further to Daily Mail.
According to The Sun, Katie, 47, drew gasps from the crowd when she named her alleged attacker.
She had always maintained that she wouldn’t reveal who it was, but last year, she said she had changed her mind and would divulge in time.
Katie Price named the British TV star she claimed raped her more than 20 years ago during an appearance of An Evening with Katie Price and Kerry Katona on Tuesday
She had planned to reveal the name in a new book, after the MeToo movement encouraged her to speak out.
A source told The Sun at the time: ‘Katie thinks now is the time, she has nothing to lose. After all the me-too stuff she thinks if other people have revealed their sex attackers, why can’t I?’
Clearly weighing heavily on her mind, Katie discussed the alleged rape in an OK! magazine column in 2009 for the first time.
Her words then were response to allegations that her then partner Alex Reid had starred in a film which glorified rape.
She said: ‘Rape is a subject very close to my own heart. I was raped when I was younger, more than once. I’d never be associated with anything or anyone so sick.
‘I’ve never talked about this before, but I feel I have to now because I was so hurt by these accusations that I would not take a subject, which affects so many women, seriously.
‘I urge any woman who has been affected by rape and needs help to talk to somebody they trust about it.’
In 2022, Katie said in her harrowing documentary Trauma And Me that she had been raped again during a horrifying carjacking in South Africa in 2018.
She recalled the terrifying ordeal which saw her held at gunpoint during filming for her Quest Red reality show, My Crazy Life with ITV.
In 2022, Katie revealed she was raped again during a horrifying carjacking in South Africa four years before – she suffered further torment when she was sexually assaulted with two friends when she was aged six
She detailed the traumatic events that led her to reach breaking point, suffering a mental breakdown in 2018, and a failed suicide attempt where she ‘knocked herself out and had black eyes’ – after which she sought treatment for PTSD.
Katie spoke about her triggers and suffering in the lead up to the crash.
She told Daily Mail: ‘The experience when I was filming with ITV in South Africa, we had no security, if we had security they would have been able to deal with the six guys that jumped us, held me at gunpoint and raped me.’
Katie was thrown out of the vehicle by the attackers, during her journey from Johannesburg to Swaziland in two people carriers with the production crew.
The vehicles were ransacked of laptops, iPads, passports, cash and jewellery – but the robbers left behind a fortune in camera gear which the crew had stored on board. The attackers were never apprehended.
Katie suffered further torment when she was sexually assaulted with two friends when she was six.
Speaking to Piers Morgan, she described how a man lured them into bushes as they played in a park, before offering to buy them an ice cream if they let him touch them.
You can call Rape Crisis England & Wales on 0808 500 2222.
