Katie Price admits post-natal drug use and suicidal moment

Katie Price has revealed she took illegal drugs and felt momentarily suicidal after giving birth to son Junior in 2005.

Writing in the next installment of her autobiography, published this week, the glamour model revealed that she turned to the unnamed drug while suffering from post-natal depression in the wake of Junior’s birth.

She took the drug, obtained through an old partying friend, at home while husband Peter Andre was working in their home’s music studio: “After I’d taken it I thought, ‘This feels good’ and I took some more.”

But when the chemicals kicked in: “My heart seemed to be racing [too] fast, I felt hot and I began to panic. [I thought] ‘Oh my God, had I overdosed? Was I going to die?’”

After Pete joined her in the bedroom, she initially tried to pretend everything was normal but admitted her slip-up when Pete noticed she was shaking. She claims Pete, who is staunchly anti-drugs, jumped out of bed, shouting: “My God, that’s it! That’s the end of us!”

“You’re going to be an unfit mother and I can’t be around you. I’m taking Junior!”

But after the ensuing argument, it was Katie, aka Jordan, who left the house in a rage and she drove to a nearby car park to contemplate her future: “I seriously thought, ‘Shall I end it all now? Drive into this wall and kill myself?’”

Instead, she checked into The Priory and was prescribed anti-depressants - but the depression returned after she gave birth to daughter Princess Tiaamii last year.

She claims her mood swings were so intense that Pete threatened to leave her just days after she gave birth in June. Pete proposed a separation but Katie replied: “You either want to be with me or you don’t. And if you don’t, then I’ll divorce you.”

The couple then decided to try again rather than divorcing and are now planning on renewing their wedding vows: “I know it seems soon but we’ve already been through what most people experience in a lifetime. It would be a celebration of our love and a new start.”

Via fametastic.co.uk