Ex Claims Threatening Messages Linked to Lee Andrews

' ex-fiance Alana Percival has claimed to have received 'threatening messages' in the middle of the night warning her to stop talking about him.

Alana has said she was contacted by someone 'very well connected to him' after releasing a podcast detailing her experience while in a relationship with Lee.

According to his wife , she last heard from Lee, 43, on Wednesday and he has been missing ever since. Katie suspects her husband may have been kidnapped.

In a new podcast, Alana spoke in detail about the elaborate scams she claims she was victim to during her relationship with Lee and issued a fresh warning to Katie.

Lee connected with Alana on  last March and he showered her with a Louis Vuitton handbag, Cartier jewellery and transferred thousands of pounds, with Alana explaining how she was 'love bombed' by the businessman. 

She has now claimed that someone close to Lee has tried to warn her off discussing her bad experience with him and called out the messages on social media.

Alana said that she thought she had been targeted for criticising Lee and discussing his 'conman' ways in a public forum. 

Alana said: 'Last night I received a DM from someone very well connected to the ongoing Lee Andrews situation.

'The message contained subtle undertones that I interpreted as threatening, implying that if Lee Andrews were to harm himself, somehow that responsibility would fall on me.

'There were also suggestions that I should stop speaking out, delete things from my phone, and stay quiet because this is now 'a police matter.'

'So let me respond publicly.

'If everything that has been exposed about my personal life helps even one woman recognise red flags, leave an unhealthy situation, or avoid ending up in one like I did, then every bit of stress, scrutiny, and intrusion into my life will have been worth it.'

Alana went on to add: 'When all of this first started, I knew I had a choice: stay quiet, or speak up for women who either don't yet realise the situation they're in or don't feel they have a voice.

'I chose to speak up, and I will continue to highlight harmful behaviour in the hope it protects someone else.

'And finally – I would appreciate people not sending subtly threatening messages to me at 2am.'

Lee proposed to Alana in September and the set-up was identical to Katie's engagement at the Jumeirah Burj Al Arab, which took place just 16 weeks later.

Alana first started to suspect all was not as it seemed when Lee refused to invite her to his house, with the couple instead spending their time in hotels or at his father's home.

'He kept saying "I don't want to take you to my house just yet. I live on the Palm in this massive house but the thing is I don't want to show you what I have until I trust there's an actual connection, because I have been used in the past,"' Alana told the Block, Delete, Move On podcast.

In the summer of 2025, four months into their relationship, Alana flew back home to the UK to visit her family, with Lee 'promising' he would join her, only to claim he couldn't travel because 'he was a flight risk or had business.'

When Alana extended her UK trip she claims an 'angry' Lee told her he had travelled to Bali to see 'some of the top heart specialists in the world' before telling her 'I'm on borrowed time and I'm dying.'

She claims Lee told her: '"I'm going to go to this monk place, you won't see me when you get back to Dubai. You can have the flat, it's all for you. I was just testing you because I wanted to leave my money with someone and I wanted to make sure that you were genuine. I want to leave you with everything because I want you to have a good life."' 

Alana then moved in with Lee into a flat in Dubai, under the impression she was living with a dying man. She claims Lee told her "I'm on borrowed time, there's nothing the heart specialists can do, it could be a year, it could be ten years."

Alana said she has spoken out to warn Katie, admitting 'I just worry for her welfare, I worry he'll maybe end up getting her arrested or a flight ban. He obviously has no remorse toward anyone.'

'I just want to tell her to please just listen. I was the same because I was like "oh he's done nothing wrong to me" until the cracks started to show. I don't want it to get to that stage for her, but it will happen because it hasn't just happened to me, it's happened to multiple exes.'

She added that she thinks Lee has 'gone silent now because he's backed into a corner.'

Recalling some of the lies that Lee told her during their relationship, Alana said that she now looks back and can't believe she ever believed him.

Alana said: 'He told me he had a contract with the Royals and something to do with the US treasury and Donald Trump. Now when I speak about it I'm like god, it's amazing what manipulation and love bombing can do to you. When I look back I think how did I believe that. Still now I'm healing but when I see what he's doing to Kate, I understand. When people say how can't see she this, but I was the same.'

Detailing when the spell began to break, Alana said: 'I spoke to Crystal [Lee's ex]. We had just got engaged. He was scamming her. He had paid for everything through her money. My ring, my car, the engagement ceremony.

'I worry for Kate because the more she questions him the more volatile he gets, because he becomes backed into a corner. He becomes not nice.

'He will make her brain toxic towards me because that is how I felt towards his exes.

'I found out a lot about him when I was in prison. I spoke to his dad, I said "if I was your daughter what would you tell me to do, would you tell me to leave or stay?" He said "I would tell you to leave because everything he touches turns to s**t".

'One day we had an argument and it turned volatile. He went out the next morning and I rung my best friend, I was shattered to pieces, I said please can you help me pack I've got about two hours. I ran, I didn't tell him I was going, I packed up my suitcase and I left. I got home and I felt so relieved. It took me a while, we were still in contact, I was so used to the chaos.'

After returning to the UK, Alana said it was 16 weeks before she found out he was engaged to Katie, which was a replica of her own engagement. 

She explained: 'Nothing was authentic, it was all copy and paste.'

Sharing her own message for Katie, who she says is now in the same position as she was, Alana said: 'Lee damages you. It does turn volatile. I just worry for her welfare. I worry he'll maybe end up getting her arrested or a flight ban. That's who he is, he has no remorse towards anyone. I just want to tell her please just listen.

'I was  the same because I was like "oh he's done nothing wrong to me", until the cracks start to show. I don't want to get to that stage for her, it will happen because it hasn't just happened to me, it's happened to multiple exes.'

Sharing her theory on why Lee has now vanished, Alana said: 'I think he underestimated how loved Katie was and how many eyes would be on her. 

'I think he underestimated it massively and that's why he's gone quiet. He's backed into a corner. How many times can you keep lying? There's been so much that has been found out about him. He's getting caught out left, right and centre. It's all over the internet and the news. He doesn't care about being hated.

'Even the filtered photos, the photos with Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian, he's ill. He's always wanted to be famous and be in the public eye. He's obsessed with Instagram. Everything I see reminds me of my own relationship with him.'

Recent reports claimed that Lee has not been kidnapped as Katie feared and is instead squatting in a run-down villa in . 

He is said to be only talking to a few of his trusted network on a burner phone and 'frantically planning a route out of this ginormous hole he appears to have buried himself in'.

Lee was due to reunite with Katie for a interview on Monday, but failed to get on a flight and later claimed he had 'things to do' but was still on his way. He also firmly denied reports he had a travel ban.

Katie, who wed Lee in January following a whirlwind ten-day romance, then branded their relationship a 'soap opera' after he became radio silent and did not travel to the UK.

The Sun has reported the Dubai-based businessman is wanted by Interpol, after Hertfordshire Police – who had been previously investigating claims from an ex-girlfriend – escalated their case.

A heartbroken Katie, meanwhile, is said to have been on the phone to lawyers over the past 24 hours, seeking counsel. 

Assistant Editor of The Sun, Clemmie Moodie, also claims she is the latest of Lee's victims, after being conned out of £1,000. 

She reports Katie was also promised money from Lee and had showed her cheques he’d seemingly deposited into her account, but the funds never emerged. 

Additionally, she was said to have been handed a credit card, which didn't work. The television personality is said to have believed this was due to an incorrect pin. 

But now, Katie is said to be 'horrified' by the claims Lee has allegedly conned another woman out of £1,000 and ultimately wants to track him down. 

The Daily Mail has contacted Lee, Interpol and Hertfordshire Police for comment. Katie's representative declined to comment. 

Katie, meanwhile, took to Instagram on Monday night and said she was suffering with terrible 'anxiety and was overwhelmed' after a traumatic week, as she plugged her CBD sponsorship. 

After news of Katie and Lee's marriage emerged, two of his exes came forward telling the television personality to 'run for the hills' and not to give him any money. 

Crystal Janke, 40, claimed Lee hoodwinked her into handing over £123,000 to invest in his company, on the promise he could get a 'return of £1million'.

The family nurse practitioner from , who started a romance with Lee last May, claims she has been scammed and fears her money was spent by Lee on lavish gifts for Alana Percival, 32, who he was dating at the same time.