Peter Andre has hit back at his ex-wife Katie Price due to her ‘baseless lies’ over the last 16 years.
The singer, 52, spoke out just hours after Katie, 47, urged him to take part in peace talks as their daughter Princess has been ‘unfairly’ dragged into their feud.
Rumours of a ‘rift’ between Katie and Princess have been growing in recent weeks after Katie didn’t attend Princess’ 18th birthday party, or appear on the nepo baby ‘s fly-on-the-wall ITV television series.
Katie, who shares Princess, 18, and son Junior, 20, with ex-husband Peter, later claimed that it was her daughter’s management who had told her not to appear on the show.
In a lengthy Instagram statement, Peter has now shared his side of the story, explaining: ‘For sixteen years, I have stayed silent in the face of repeated lies from my ex-wife and her family, out of respect for my children and loved ones, but staying silent has been incredibly frustrating. That ends today.
‘The latest comments about my children’s welfare and living arrangeemnts compel me to se the record straight. For well-documented reasons, and for their safety, Junior and Princess came into my care in 2018 and remained with me until they reached adulthood.
Peter Andre has hit back at his ex-wife Katie Price due to her ‘baseless lies’ over the last 16 years
It comes shortly after Katie, 47, urged Peter, 52, who share children Princess and Junior, to take part in peace talks as their daughter Princess has been ‘unfairly’ dragged into their feud
In a lengthy Instagram statement, Peter has now shared his side of the story, explaining: ‘For sixteen years, I have stayed silent in the face of repeated lies from my ex-wife and her family, out of respect for my children and loved ones, but staying silent has been incredibly frustrating. That ends today’
‘In 2019, the family courts issued a legally binding order to enforce this arrangement. I have never made this public before, out of respect for my children.’
He continued: ‘In 2011 and 2015, publicly documented court cases found my ex-wife had made false claims. She was ordered to pay substantial damages and legal costs, and to apologise to me and my management. The same falsehoods are being repeated today.
‘Unfortunately, there are many more lies and baseless accusations I have yet to address. Those will now be dealt with in the coming months.’
Daily Mail has contacted Katie’s representatives for comment.
It comes after Katie called on Peter to sit down with her and ‘squash their beef’ for the sake of their family.
Speaking on the latest on the latest episode of her Katie Price Show podcast, Katie – who is currently recovering from more facial surgery – shared: ‘There’s no reason why both parents just can’t be there to support her.’
She continued: ‘Now this isn’t about me. I have to clarify this. I don’t care that I’m not in Princess’s show.
‘I don’t need to raise my profile by being on Princess’s show, I do enough stuff.
For a time, Katie and Pete were the golden couple of reality TV, with a lavish wedding and a string of big-money deals making them one of the most talked-about pairs in Britain (pictured in 2004 on I’m A Celebrity)
Rumours of a ‘rift’ between Katie and Princess have been growing in recent weeks after Katie didn’t attend Princess’ 18th birthday party, or appear on the nepo baby ‘s fly-on-the-wall ITV television series
‘All what I want to do, is just whatever my daughter does, and it’s the same with Junior, I don’t care if I’m in the background, but I want to watch her do her photo shoots, I wanna watch her do her signings, because that’s what I did.
‘And my mom and you and Nan used to come along and support, and I’m proud of her. And I just wanna be there with her because I now I feel that I’ve missed out on so much.’
Katie went on: ‘It’s so not fair to bring Princess piggy in the middle.
‘So I think it’s about time all of us adults just sit down and talk about what their beef is with me and just get over it.
‘Life would be more at peace because I don’t have a problem. I just think life would be a better place.
‘Well, I’m not saying we all have to be best buddies, best friends, but come on. For the sake of the children, there’s room for everyone to support your kids. Do you know what I mean?
‘I’m not saying I have to stand with them and play happy families.’
Elsewhere in the chat, Katie’s sister Sophie urged her niece to push for Katie’s inclusion on the show.
Elsewhere in the chat, Katie’s sister Sophie urged her niece Princess to push for Katie’s inclusion on the show (pictured together in 2021)
Sophie mused: ‘Ultimately I do think it’s down to Princess to put her foot down a bit’.
But Katie shot back and said Princess will be ‘scared’ to speak up to her management about what she really wants.
She said: ‘But, she’ll be scared Soph. What you got to remember is when I started my career, I didn’t have people like the management and all that around me. I used to get the train, go on castings, I put the graft in.’
For a time, Katie and Pete were the golden couple of reality TV, with a lavish wedding and a string of big-money deals making them one of the most talked-about pairs in Britain.
But things turned sour between the pair when their marriage came to an end in 2009 after four years together, with Katie claiming it was Peter’s decision to walk away from the relationship.
Much of the nation has witnessed the fall-out of the end Katie and Peter’s marriage, and the string of public swipes that have been thrown from both sides.
Princess opened up about the impact of her parents’ tumultuous divorce in her new ITV2 reality series The Princess Diaries, sharing she felt she couldn’t ‘go to her dad’ after he split from Katie due to their dislike of one another.
As Princess’ show has aired, Katie has been recovering from yet more facial surgery. During her time at a Turkish clinic, Katie underwent a lip lift correction, brow lift, and eye lift
She revealed on the show how she has a counsellor and previously ‘couldn’t just go to my dad’ due to her parents ‘not liking each other’.
As Princess’ show has aired, Katie has been recovering from yet more facial surgery.
During her time at a Turkish clinic, Katie underwent a lip lift correction, brow lift, and eye lift, and was seen bloodied and bandaged as she stepped out this week while recovering from the procedures.
Katie is no stranger to going under the knife, having had at least 16 boob jobs, three rhinoplasties and six facelifts.
The Real Husbands of Katie Price
In the decades since she first rose to fame, Katie Price has enjoyed – and quite likely endured – a decidedly busy love life that has seen her walk down the aisle three times before heading to divorce court in equal measure. Here’s a look at the trio with whom she exchanged ‘I dos’… and ‘I don’ts’:
PETER ANDRE (2005 – 2009)
The nation got to watch love blossom between the pair when they starred alongside one another on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here back in 2004. The flying sparks soon became nuptials, with blushing bride Katie and her erstwhile pop hunk beau tying the knot at Highclere Castle (the grand Berkshire estate of Downton Abbey fame) in September 2005. Katie, who was already mother to son Harvey (born in 2002 following a romance with former footballer Dwight Yorke), soon started a family with her new husband. The couple welcomed son Junior in 2005, while daughter Princess followed in 2007. Creation between the pair also came artistically, with the release of reality programmes, a failed talk show and a foray into the music world. However, after four years of securing their position as the Ken and Barbie of reality TV and glossy magazine deals, the pair announced in 2009 that they were going their separate ways.
ALEX REID (2010 – 2012)
Katie soon switched her romantic allegiance from a onetime ab-bearing pop heartthrob to musclebound MMA fighter Alex Reid. The two met at Michelle Heaton’s 30th birthday party at London’s Cafe de Paris. But shortly after they got together, Katie dumped Alex on live TV, only for him to win her back and the pair go from strength to strength. Weeks after proudly cheering her man on to a win on the 2010 edition of Celebrity Big Brother (also featuring none other than her ex-boyfriend Dane Bowers), Katie jetted off to Las Vegas to tie the knot with her new partner in February 2010 after just seven months of dating – and nine months after divorcing Peter. Following their Sin City sojourn, the pair returned to their native UK, where they had a formal ceremony – which was filmed for a TV series. However, after just 11 months of marriage, the pair announced they were splitting and their divorce was finalised in March 2012. While Katie declared at the time that she married Alex ‘too soon’, she would later go on to reveal that a major factor in their split was his cross-dressing alter-ego Roxanne.
KIERAN HAYLER (2013 – 2021)
Showing herself to be a true woman of the times, Katie embarked on a romance with former stripper Kieran after the two met on the now-defunct Blackberry Messenger service in 2012. And just two months after altering the paths of their lives via those thumb-tapped fateful opening messages, the twosome would go on to exchange nuptials in the Caribbean. Kieran proposed to a thrilled Katie on Christmas Day 2012, and just three weeks later, the pair would be pronounced husband and wife in the idyllic shores of the Bahamas on January 16, 2013. They had their marriage blessed in Weston-super Mare, and in the months that followed, it appeared that Katie had finally found her happily ever after. They welcomed son Jett in August 2013, and daughter Bunny in August 2014. But Katie’s world came crashing down in 2014, when she discovered that Kieran had cheated on her with her close friend of 20 years, Jane Pountney, and was enjoying a fling with another of her pals, Chrissy Thomas. After publicly lashing out at all parties involved (and naming her pet pigs after her friends-turned-foes), Katie appeared determined to make things work when she renewed her vows with Kieran in 2015. But alas, it would not turn out to be third time lucky for Katie, as the pair split in 2018 amid even more cheating allegations. Their ‘amicable’ divorce was finalised in early 2021.
