AMY PRICE thought she had seen it all when it came to her daughter’s relationships with toxic men – until Katie’s sex-obsessed husband Kieran Hayler tried it on with HER.
And she was gobsmacked when another of her Katie’s fellas – cross-dressing cage fighter Alex Reid – stripped off during a family dinner.
Amy, 70, who calls her daughter Kate, has a fatal lung condition and, faced with the prospect of death, she has decided to break her silence.
In an exclusive extract from her new book, serialised in The Sun, she reveals the truth about glamour girl Katie’s men – and how she kept getting her heart broken.
TWELVE weeks after her split from Peter Andre in 2009, Kate was telling me about a man who her gym trainer had introduced her to.
Kate was on the rebound from Pete. But she was desperate for love and attention and — as usual — not giving herself time to see things clearly.
She had been dating Alex Reid for a few weeks when I first met him in a park near where she lived in Woldingham, Surrey.
It wasn’t a particularly warm day but all of a sudden, Alex took his top off and just laid down on the grass.
A couple of months later, he came round to our house with Kate for dinner with family and friends.
Halfway through, he took his top off and sat there while everyone looked at him agog.
I first saw his female alter ego when I attended a photoshoot for Kate’s book, Standing Out.
The idea for the press launch was that four men would dress up as caricatures of Kate.
Alex, dressed in a skimpy gold outfit, seemed to be enjoying the event. His voice became soft and girly, and he announced his name was Roxanne.
Kate jetted off to marry Alex in Las Vegas in 2010, just seven months after meeting him.
After the wedding, reality set in. Once or twice, the nannies complained they found Alex’s topless exhibitionism uncomfortable around the house, but things escalated when they said that he had been using Harvey’s hormone medication Genotropin.
Alex has since said he injected himself by accident, thinking the medicine was his own.
In 2011, after just two years, Kate told Alex to leave but he said his marriage status entitled him to stay.
While Kate’s lawyers were deciding how to evict him, they drew up an agreement which dictated that he was not allowed to enter her bedroom and a guard was told to sleep outside.
Often, Kate’s partners don’t seem to be real people. To me, some just want free holidays and more followers on Instagram.
She seems to feel compelled to give them material objects as a way of making them love her.
I think Kate has always suffered from a lack of confidence and a fear of being alone and that’s why she rushes headlong into relationships.
The divorce from Alex really made me realise that Kate was getting into a pattern of eat, sleep, marry, repeat.
It started with a very public relationship with the rugby player Danny Cipriani.
Then came the Argentinian model and TV presenter Leandro Penna, who she separated from in 2012 after two years.
Leo moved to the UK to be with Kate. He tried to get work in the UK but because of the language barrier he wasn’t successful.
In the end, he appeared — like all her partners — in her reality show and got paid for it.
Leo and Kate found it hard to communicate and they started rowing — sometimes over Google Translate, due to the language barrier.
Kate and Leo spent Valentine’s Day 2012 in Prague and he proposed to her with a pink, heart-shaped ring surrounded by diamonds.
Unfortunately, the ring did not fit and Kate never wore it. Kate’s jeweller Bill Foreman had made the ring and he contacted Kate in June to say that the invoice was still outstanding.
Kate was paying for everything. About a month after Leo had left, Kate was introduced to a man called Kieran Hayler by her friends.
Kate said he was a plasterer and a stripper. We discovered Kieran wasn’t a plasterer — he was just a plasterer’s mate. He was a stripper, though.
I wasn’t so convinced about his reliability or independence, so I presented him with a confidentiality agreement. To be fair, he signed it without complaint.
On Christmas Day 2012, Kate told me that Kieran had proposed and she had accepted. “Not again,” I thought.
A month later, Kate excitedly informed me that I was going to have the opportunity to meet Kieran’s mum Wendy outside WH Smith at Heathrow for a flight to the Bahamas, where Kate and Kieran would tie the knot.
At the wedding, Kate’s best friend Jane Pountney had suddenly bloomed.
She had hair extensions, her teeth were whitened, she wore false eyelashes and nails, she had lost a lot of weight and she was wearing a short dress of the kind that Kate would often wear.
In April 2014, Kate was in the early stages of pregnancy with Kieran’s second child.
She went on holiday with Kieran, Jane, her husband Derrick and all the children to Cape Verde.
They hadn’t been there long when I received a desperate call in the middle of the night from Kate, who was crying because she had caught Kieran and Jane kissing on the beach.
She said she lost her temper and hit Jane and then ran away with both Jane and Kieran chasing her, denying what had happened.
Kieran started having therapy. The therapist’s conclusion was that he had a sex addiction and Kieran accepted he needed help.
His infidelity continued with another friend of Kate’s, Chrissy Thomas.
Other friends of Kate told her about sexual texts they had received from Kieran. Even Kate’s PA received one, but she just ignored it.
Once, after we had been for a meal at Kate’s house, Kieran and I kissed goodbye cheek on cheek and he “accidentally” kissed me on my lips.
Later, I had a text from him saying, “That was nice”. I was shocked and tried to ignore it. In 2014, Kate bought another house.
Kieran engaged a firm of builders and we watched the beautiful Arts and Crafts house turn into a tacky grey glitter palace.
I noticed it had an alarming number of animals. At one time there must have been 100 chickens and there were eggs everywhere.
Kieran the builder had decided to become Kieran the farmer, so there were pigs, peacocks, lambs, llamas and two turkeys, one called Roast and one called Dinner.
Kieran tried to pretend he was a country squire so he needed to dress the part with a waxed jacket, flat cap and boots.
Kate had to finance Kieran’s hobbies, so the invitation to appear on Celebrity Big Brother in January 2015 came at the right time.
Afterwards she renewed her vows and I was speechless when Kate called Kieran up on stage and summarised everything that had happened — including him sleeping with her best friend.
Kate had stopped coming down to see me regularly and, when she did, she was fidgety or wanted to sleep.
I went to her house in August 2015 to find her looking absolutely terrible.
She told me that she had discovered Kieran had been having another affair, this time with the nanny.
Then I discovered Kate’s behaviour was related to depression and the fact she had started taking cocaine — and Kieran was involved with it too.
Kate is not an addict — it was a coping mechanism.
Before Kieran finally moved out, he was taking their kids Jett and Bunny to school and he met a mum at the school gates called Michelle Penticost.
They started an affair which seems to have lasted.
I feel lucky Kate has survived and is still with us.
In June 2020 she met used car dealer Carl Woods, and he moved in with her.
An early morning phone call came in late August 2021, from Carl’s dad, saying that he’d been arrested, but assuring me that his son would never hit anyone.
Kate’s agent Kirsty told me Kate had been to hospital and the police had been called.
Kate admitted that Carl had pushed her while trying to grab her phone off her, but she said he didn’t hit her.
I have no respect for Carl. I have to stand by what I believe, and I believe that Carl knows and accepts this. All I want is for Kate to be happy.
