Katie Price has publicly reached out to her ex-husband Peter Andre and offered a truce following the fallout surrounding her daughter Princess’ ITV documentary series.
The 47 year old glamour model has now suggested she and ex-husband Peter, 52, have a sit down chat following the 16 year long feud between the former married couple, who share Junior and Princess Andre together. Katie and Peter haven’t spoken since their divorce, following the breakdown of their marriage in 2009.
Recently tensions appeared to rise between the two camps when Katie spoke out in her podcast, The Katie Price Show, about her upset over not being involved in her daughter Princess’ new ITV series, The Princess Diaries, as the 18 year old’s career reaches new heights. It comes after Princess Andre says she’s ‘independent’ from parents as she breaks silence after Katie Price row.
Last week, Katie said she was “very very upset” as she claimed she had been left out of her daughter’s latest career milestones and claimed she had pleaded to take part in the TV series but was told no. Following the backlash from her comments, in which she faced accusations of jealousy and attention seeking, the former Page 3 star has spoken out once again and insisted she only wants to be there to support her teenage daughter.
Katie has now suggested a sit down talk with Peter and her former management The CAN Group in which she said: “I feel like I’ve missed out on so much and it’s so not fair to bring Princess as 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 such more at peace.”
In the latest episode of the podcast, she also shared hopes for the former husband and wife to support their children together. Katie suggested: “There’s no reason why both parents can’t be there to support her.”
Meanwhile, she also insisted she does not want a piece of Princess’ flourishing fame after Katie was accused of being jealous of her daughter’s successful and rising career.
She insisted: “I have to clarify this; I don’t care that I’m not in Princess’ show I don’t need to raise my profile by being in Princess’ show I do enough stuff. I’m in the press every day.
“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 wanna watch her photoshoots, I wanna watch her do her signings – because that’s what I did and my mum and you [sister Sophie Price] and nan used to come along and support and I’m proud of her and I just wanna be there with her,” she explained.
While Katie said she ‘doesn’t expect to play happy families’ she hopes to be more involved in her daughter’s achievements. She said: “I’m not saying I have to stand with them and play happy families. I’ve missed out so much with Princess. I haven’t watched the show but people have told me how proud I should be of the kids and how they, Princess, does talk highly of me all the way through it. So although I’m not in the show she speaks about me all the time which is really sweet.”
Peter Andre has remained stoically silent in the wake of Katie’s podcast rants of late and has been focussing on supporting his children as they both featured on the ITV documentary series, which was released on Sunday.
As a video of Princess and Junior’s appearance on This Morning was shared on social media last week, he commented: “Love you both. Keep being you” followed by a red heart emoji.
Meanwhile, Princess and Peter’s management company, The CAN Group, last week issued a statement in the wake of Katie’s comments in which Katie shared her upset as she was allegedly “not allowed” to take part in the show – despite apparent offers to do so for free.
Last week Katie said: “I’ve always said, over my dead body would I ever want her to manage my kids because she doesn’t like me and Pete and me don’t talk. I am very, very, very upset that Princess has signed with them.”
She added: “Now she’s managing Princess and Junior, out of my control, I want the best for Junior and Princess, always, and I will never get in the way of it. But what hurts my feelings – and it does upset me – is when your kids grow up, you go to their assemblies, you go to their Christmas things, you go to their awards, you know, you go to their football matches or their gymnastics, you’re involved in everything they do.
“And knowing that what my career has been, Princess is taking that same path – trying to do the same as what I’ve done – which I absolutely love and adore of Princess but I had not been allowed to go on any photoshoot, no signings or Superdrug openings or anything like that. Why? Because I’m not allowed and I’m not welcome.”
Princess’ management company later responded. When contacted by the Mirror, The CAN Group said: “As a company, our duty of care to our clients is paramount. We would never advise a client on their personal life unless asked and we have never stopped anyone seeing their families.”
Katie’s latest podcast comments come after she revealed she has never had a sit down, face to face chat with ex-husband Peter since their split. Katie and Peter met on 2004’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and married in 2005 before things came to an end in 2009.
Earlier this year, while on Paul C Brunson’s podcast, We Need To Talk, Katie revealed she had not spoken to her ex since their relationship broke down. She said earlier this year: “Until this day, me and Pete have never sat down and spoken about it.
“It’s all through lawyers. I’ve never sat down with him, we probably would’ve sorted it out but we were kept apart.”
She added: “We broke up because he thought I was having an affair with my dressage rider, and I’ve never slept with him.
“I just kept my horse there, and I was happy keeping my horse there, and he was married.
“But when me and Pete split, because he used to keep saying, ‘That’s it. I’ve had enough. I’ve had enough’. It got to a point where I went, ‘Well f****** divorce me’.”