Princess Andre has revealed that she ‘saw things kids shouldn’t see’ as she opened up about her mother Katie Price‘s ‘problems’ during the first episode of her new ITV show which aired on Sunday.
The daughter of the former glamour model and singer Peter Andre, 18, claimed she wished she could have had a ‘happier childhood’ as she discussed her traumas on her new reality programme, The Princess Diaries.
Princess said her mother Katie fell into a ‘dark’ place following her 2018 split from her third husband Kieran Hayler – who shares with Bunny, 10, and Jett, 11, with – after she discovered he had been unfaithful throughout their marriage.
Katie has previously admitted to attempting suicide and relying on drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism at the time, and for the first time Princess has opened up about the impact it had on her.
Princess has now told ITV viewers how she has a counsellor to help her cope with her traumas and how she previously ‘couldn’t just go to my dad’ Peter due to the former couple, who split in 2009, ‘not liking each other’.
She said: ‘She [Katie] is so unpredictable and she lives life and doesn’t care. I love that, I’d love that mind set of I don’t care because deep down I do, I’ll get to bed and cry about it.

Princess Andre has revealed that she ‘saw things kids shouldn’t see’ as she opened up about her mother Katie Price ‘s ‘problems’ during the first episode of her new ITV show which aired on Sunday

The daughter of the former glamour model and singer Peter Andre , 18, claimed she wished she could have had a ‘happier childhood’ as she discussed her traumas on her new reality programme, The Princess Diaries (pictured with brother Junior in 2017)
‘I do have a counsellor who I see now and then and I write everything down in my notes. I wish I could have had a happier childhood, I had so much on my plate at such a young age and had things at the back of my mind.
‘My mum and Kieran split up when I was 10 years old, we were close to him he was in our lives for five years.
‘He did a lot of stuff and when they split everything went downhill.’
Laying bare Katie’s ‘problems’, Princess said she hasn’t ‘fully recovered’ from her mum’s breakdown but revealed she did apologise and they now ‘talk a lot’.
She continued: ‘Mum was heartbroken and she went through a dark time and it was things kids shouldn’t see and when we needed our mum there, she wasn’t there because she had her own problems.
‘Kids in school would ask me about it and I was like 11 and I would just cry about it in bed. I couldn’t just go to my dad about it because I grew up with them not liking each other.
‘I’m not healed or fully recovered from it but mum has fixed herself compared to how she was back then.
‘She spoke to me about it and she apologised and I never wanted an apology but it was a lot that she acknowledged it and she realised she needed to prioritise us, we now talk a lot and she is now my best friend.’

Princess said her mum became in a ‘dark’ place following her split from third husband Kieran Hayler. Katie previously admitted to attempting suicide and relying on drugs and alcohol; pictured in 2017

She said: ‘Mum was heartbroken and she went through a dark time and it was things kids shouldn’t see and when we needed our mum there she wasn’t there because she had her own problems’

Princess has now told ITV viewers how she has a counsellor to help her cope with her traumas and how she previously ‘couldn’t just go to my dad’ Peter due to the former couple ‘not liking each other’
Princess also revealed how she used to stay at Katie’s Monday and Tuesday nights and dad Peter’s Wednesday and Thursdays, however the weekends ‘it was whoever’s turn it was’.
Comparing the two households, she added: ‘Mum’s house was chaotic there weren’t many rules, a few boundaries maybe but it was go to bed when you want and eat what you want.
Last year, Katie reflected on the emotional time she tried to take her own life after ‘reaching breaking point’ following her divorce from Kiaran .
Katie, who is now in a happy relationship with JJ Slater, at the time admitted herself into the Priory shortly after she noticed she was relying on drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism amid her suicide attempt.
Speaking to You Magazine, Katie opened up about the emotional and difficult time in her life, she said: ‘People don’t realise what I’ve been through’.
They don’t know, for example, that she tried to take her own life, as she got divorced from her third husband, Hayler.
‘I just didn’t want to be here any more. I thought, “What’s the point? No one’s here, no one’s helping, no one understands what I am feeling.”
‘I woke up from it thinking, “What the f***? I can’t do this to my kids.” I was at breaking point.’

Laying bare Katie’s ‘problems’, Princess said she hasn’t ‘fully recovered’ from her mum’s breakdown but revealed she did apologise and they now ‘talk a lot’
Katie went to private hospital the Priory, and realised that the suicide attempt was the culmination of a long breakdown.
She had been taking cocaine as a means of escape, and this shocked her friends and family, because, she tells me, she isn’t an addict.
Katie added: ‘I think there’s this persona of me that I’m a drinker and a cokehead, but I never have been, ever. Yeah, when I was younger, I would go out and get p***ed. Who wouldn’t?’
‘It [cocaine] is the dirtiest thing. When you’re not in a good place, it taps you on the shoulder and says, “I’m here, I can help you.” To me, it wasn’t a drug that made me want to party.
‘It was more a way to block everything out, to suppress me completely. I was like this,’ she mimes looking down and in at herself. “It was like I was in rigor mortis.”
While most people who take cocaine get an intense high, it shut Price down. This is typical of people who suffer from ADHD, and it was after her stay in the Priory that she had a formal diagnosis.
“I hate labels,” she says, “but it’s made me understand more. I found all my school reports and they all say exactly the same thing: “Dreamer. Gets bored. So capable but gets easily distracted and doesn’t concentrate.” It all makes sense.’
Does she think her life might have been different if she had received a diagnosis as a child?
‘I don’t know. And maybe I wouldn’t be where I am today. So I don’t regret any of it, but now I am older, I can understand that I need to hold back and evaluate situations more.’
Katie and Kieran separated in March 2018 after five years of marriage but their divorce wasn’t finalised until four years later.
The couple split after several infidelities by Kieran, with the stripper later admitting he suffered from sex addiction.

Katie and Kieran separated in March 2018 after five years of marriage but their divorce wasn’t finalised until four years later; pictured 2015

The model was famously married to Peter Andre from 2005 to 2009 after meeting on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and welcomed Princess and son Junior
In 2021, Katie was awarded a 16-week suspended jail term after being sentenced for a drink-driving crash.
The TV personality flipped her BMW onto its side at about 6.20am on September 28, on a country road near her West Sussex home.
Following the accident, she tested positive for alcohol and cocaine, and admitted drink-driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.
Katie is currently in a loved-up relationship with former Married At First Sight star JJ Slater.
The model was famously married to Peter Andre from 2005 to 2009 after meeting on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and welcomed Princess and son Junior.
Admitting she was on the ‘rebound’ Katie started dating cage fighter Alex Reid a mere eight weeks later. The pair were married from 2010 to 2012 before their acrimonious split.
She then wed the father of her two youngest children, Kieran, in 2013 after a whirlwind romance and their split – once again bitter – came amid allegations of new infidelities, three years after she caught him sleeping with her best friends Jane Poutney and Chrissy Thomas.