14 DAY TRIAL // Katie Price and Peter Andre are now officially divorced, but, for one reason or another, that does not surprise anyone, they are still talking smack about each other in the media. To say that this has been one of the messiest divorces in showbiz is stating the obvious at this point. Andre is the first to vouch for that, writing in his column for New! that seeing Katie’s new boyfriend with his children caused him a panic attack that literally ended in bloodshed.
It happened a couple of months ago, the singer reveals, when pictures of Price’s new love interest, cagefighter Alex Reid, playing with her children surfaced in the media. They showed the glamor model and Reid with Junior and Princess (who are also Andre’s kids) in the park on what seemed like a normal family outing. The problem was that Reid was not a part of the family and just seeing him act like it was such a shock it almost made Andre ill. Because of the unpleasant surprise, he fainted and cracked open his head.
“I honestly haven’t had anything happen like this for years, but it occurred on the same day that I saw the first pictures of Alex Reid with my children and it really set me back. I found it unbelievably hard to see another man with Junior and Princess, and that was probably the lowest I’ve felt throughout the whole split. It’s any father’s nightmare to see pictures like that and I went to bed feeling not only heartbroken but also massively anxious, which obviously brought on the attack.” Andre recalls of the day in question.
The shock was so grave that Andre woke up at one point that night feeling very ill. He instantly realized something was wrong and tried to get out of bed to have his brother take him to the hospital. However, he blacked out when he did so and banged his head against something, he says. When he finally made his way to the bathroom, he saw with utter shock that he had left a trail of blood from his room to there.
“I knew what was happening so I got up with the intention of getting my brother Mike. I felt so anxious that I wanted him to take me to hospital, but I didn’t make it out of my bedroom and all I remember is hearing a bang. The next thing I knew, I woke up on the floor. I lay there for about half an hour in daze and then I noticed there was a line of blood trickling down the wall of my bedroom where I’d hit my head after losing consciousness. I stumbled into the bathroom and when I looked in the mirror, I saw that my whole face was covered in blood.” Andre further says of the incident in question.
What followed was a very dark period, when, aside from having to deal with the divorce and the lies Katie Price was spreading to the media, he also had to face the harsh reality that some other man was playing with his children and trying to replace him. See here for Peter Andre’s new column in its entirety.