Kerry Katona Reflects on Mom Giving Her Drugs at 14, Calls Cocaine Her “Only Friend”

Kerry Katona recalled been given drugs for the first time by her own mother when she was just 14-years-old. 

The former Atomic Kitten singer, 44, who has now been sober for over 15 years, admitted that at one point ‘cocaine was her only friend.’

Kerry told of how she thought her ‘mum’s love and affection was in a bag of coke’ and that ‘it was normal.’

Speaking in an interview with OK! magazine this week, she recalled: ‘Mum gave me drugs when I was 14. She was my mum, so I thought it was normal. But that’s a very unhealthy co-dependency.

‘It was the most disgusting thing I’d ever tasted. But I soon got used to the high it gave me. Cocaine was the only thing that was always there for me.’ 

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Kerry Katona recalled been given drugs for the first time by her own mother when she was just 14-years-old (pictured together in 2018)

The former Atomic Kitten singer, 44, who has now been sober for over 15 years, admitted that at one point ‘cocaine was her only friend’ 

Kerry continued: ‘I was in such despair. I thought my mum’s love and affection was in a bag of coke. But it’s not normal or healthy, is it?’

She went on to recall how everything changed when she realised she ‘didn’t want to be this person’ after sharing a hidden bag of cocaine with her mum. 

Kerry checked herself into rehab in 2008 and again in 2010 and has been sober ever since. 

After struggling with addiction in the past, last year revealed she was having reconstructive surgery done to combat the damage done by cocaine. 

Showing off the results of the surgery to Good Morning Britain hosts hosts Ranvir Singh and Richard Madeley last year, she explained it had been her mum who first gave her drugs as a young teen.

Discussing her addiction, she explained: ‘I think cocaine became my crutch, it was my best friend, it gave the support I needed, when I needed it. 

‘I didn’t do it everyday, I was more of a binger – once I started I couldn’t stop. And then I could go months without it. It just became my best friend because everyone was using me really.

Detailing how dependent she was at the time, she admitted: ‘I actually OD’d at one point and got back up and took another line of cocaine straight away.’ 

Kerry told of how she thought her ‘mum’s love and affection was in a bag of coke’ and that ‘it was normal’ 

Appearing on Good Morning Britain, Kerry opened up about her dependency on cocaine and how it caused her nose to collapse

Showing off the results of the surgery to hosts Ranvir Singh and Richard Madeley , she explained it had been her mum who first gave her drugs as a young teen 

She recently went under the knife to reconstruct her nose, after her drug abuse left her with a hole in her septum (seen before surgery)  

Kerry recalled: ‘I started drugs when I was 14, before I was famous. My first drug I took was with my mum. 

‘I adore my mum and I love my mum, but we’ve had our ups and downs and my mum wasn’t really a mum. She told me it was sherbet and it was speed and I thought that was normal!’

She went on to say that she had moved on from her past however, saying: ‘My mum wasn’t very well. It is what it is, it’s happened I can’t sit with regret and hatred. 

‘I have to accept people who there are. My mum is drug free. But for a very long time I lived in a pity party, saying “poor me, the world owes me, it’s everyone’s fault but mine”. 

I sometimes think what would’ve happened if I’d died from an overdose, like my late husband George. The pain and shame for my family doesn’t bear thinking about.”