Katie Price

KATIE PRICE has revealed her long-lasting trauma after she was raped during a terrifying carjacking in South Africa.

“I knocked myself out and had black eyes. I tried to kill myself. I had bruises around my neck.

The reality star, 44, told MailOnline that she's 'learned' from the mistake she made of driving under the influence, receiving a suspended jail sentence ...

'I feel better and I feel stronger for that. 'I have never ever been in The Priory for drink, drugs or addiction. 'Mental health it doesn’t matter how big or how small that my seem, if it’s big to someone then it’s big to them. I would never get into that place again. It would have stopped a lot of things that I might have said or reacted to. I don't put anything on Instagram anymore. I didn't want to be here.' I tried to kill myself. - She said: 'Unfortunately, I did get into that place. 'Unfortunately, I did get into that place. I woke up. The attackers were never apprehended.

In new Channel 4 documentary Katie Price: Trauma and Me, the former glamour model opens up about being raped during a carjacking incident in South Africa ...

Pretty f***ing shockingly scary." The next thing I know, I've got this guy at the window and his face was just mad. "Junior and Princess were screaming and I'm going, 'Calm down, calm down'. "And then they took the keys and then they went. We're actually dead,' [ITV](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/itv) in South Africa we had no security, if we had security they would have helped when the six guys jumped out, held me at gunpoint and raped me."

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I deserved to be punished, enough was enough. Katie Price’s Trauma and Me airs on 8 September on Channel 4. Katie Price: Trauma and Me airs 8 September on Channel 4

'Police said it was a miracle they didn't kill us,' Price recounted.

“I feel better and I feel stronger for that. It would have stopped a lot of things that I might have said or reacted to. I don’t need to rectify or prove anything to anyone. “Unfortunately, I did get into that place. I would never get into that place again. The armed rapists were never arrested by police.

Towie's Yazmin Oukhellou has led support for Katie Price after the former model opened up about her rape ordeal.

I didn’t want to be here.’ [Katie Price recalls depression after being raped at gunpoint during carjacking in South Africa: ‘I didn’t want to be here’](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/07/katie-price-felt-suicidal-after-being-raped-at-gunpoint-in-carjacking-17314363/?ico=more_text_links) Towie star Yazmin Oukhellou wrote in her Instagram stories: ‘So proud of you @katieprice for coming out with your trauma. I tried to kill myself. I woke up. ‘Thinking of you yaz..

Ahead of Katie Price: Trauma and Me, the former glamour model revealed she's in talks to front a documentary about social services.

I tried to kill myself.’ [Katie Price reveals ex-husbands are ‘triggers’ for poor mental health](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/07/katie-price-says-ex-husbands-are-triggers-for-mental-health-17313503/?ico=more_text_links) [ she hit rock bottom](https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/27/katie-price-hit-rock-bottom-after-wake-up-call-drink-drive-crash-16003289/) when she was arrested and [pleaded guilty to drink-driving](https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/29/katie-price-car-crash-star-pleads-guilty-to-driving-while-disqualified-15334502/) after crashing in September. [Opening up about the aftermath of the carjacking](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/07/katie-price-felt-suicidal-after-being-raped-at-gunpoint-in-carjacking-17314363/), Price said: ‘The experience when I was filming with ITV in South Africa, we had no security, if we had security they would have been able to deal with the six guys that jumped us, held me at gunpoint and raped me.’ [former glamour model’s struggles with her mental health](https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/30/katie-price-opens-up-about-not-being-able-to-see-youngest-children-17266910/), the events that lead to her downward spiral and the steps she’s taking to rebuild her life. [Katie Price](https://metro.co.uk/tag/katie-price/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P1_LNK1) has said she’s in discussions to present a documentary based on her experience of social services, as well as other people’s.

The former glamour model swerved jail at her sentencing in December, but was handed a two-year driving ban, after pleading guilty to drink-driving, ...

She said: "I recognise my mental health has been shaken, the triggers are there, I need help. I should never have done it I recognise my mental health has been shaken, the triggers are there, I need help." [Channel 4 documentary](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/katie-prices-mucky-mansion-halts-27797245), Katie Price: Trauma and Me, she said: "I can't drive a Moped can I, with five kids? In the one-off documentary that focuses on her mental health battle, Katie spoke openly of the nightmare moment she crashed her car after hitting 'rock bottom'. "I should be punished and in a way I want to be punished. The former glamour model swerved jail at her sentencing in December, but was handed a two-year driving ban, after pleading guilty to drink-driving, without insurance and whilst disqualified. [I'm A Celebrity star headed to rehab clinic The Priory to seek help for depression, anxiety and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. There's still hurdles to get over." I can't want to get a pink Moped again." [Martin Compston's new BBC travel adventure show 'Scottish Fling' set to air](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/martin-compstons-new-bbc-travel-27931613) [Hollyoaks star Adam Rickitt opens up after £50k is scammed from his bank account](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/hollyoaks-star-adam-rickitt-opens-27931485) [Strictly’s Kaye Adams admits she struggled to accept that she needed two hearing aids](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/strictlys-kaye-adams-admits-struggled-27925163) [Madonna has enough muscles to be in the 'marines' and is 'stressful', says William Orbit](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/madonna-enough-muscles-marines-stressful-27925461) "At the end of the day I got in the car, I could have killed someone else, I could have killed myself," she said. [Katie Price](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/katie-price-reveals-raped-gunpoint-27926367) jokes she might have to get her pink moped back after being banned from driving following her [ horror crash last September.](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/katie-price-says-car-crash-27927689)

Katie Price was due to appear on Good Morning Britain ahead of her new Channel 4 documentary, Katie Price: Trauma and Me.

"I hit severe depression a couple of years ago, depression on top of PTSD, I was suicidal, didn't want to be here. I didn't want to be here." I was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder," Katie says during a voiceover on the show. She tried to take her own life at a time, she says, when "no-one knew how bad I was". Katie was due to appear on the ITV morning programme to discuss her harrowing tell-all Katie Price mysteriously failed to appear on Good Morning Britain on Thursday morning, despite her and her team having shared the news with fans that she would be on the

Katie Price and Carl Woods arrived at the studio of Channel 4 daytime show Steph's Packed Lunch ahead of her appearance on the programme today to discuss ...

[](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here) And as she made her way to the studio, Katie posted a video of the map in the car she was travelling in and wrote: "On route to @packedlunchc4". Katie was due to make the appearance on the ITV daytime show to discuss her new documentary, in which she details how the traumatic car jacking in 2018 caused her to attempt to take her own life. The night before her TV appearance, Katie shared a screenshot of the lineup on Steph's Packed Lunch on her [I'm A Celebrity](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here) star Katie, [who discusses the brutal South Africa carjacking she was victim of in her upcoming doc,](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-price-talks-brutal-carjacking-27931139) wore her blonde locks in a straight down hair style and tucked the ends of her hair into her hoodie. [Katie Price](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/katie-price) has been photographed wearing surgical moon boots and carrying two big bags as she headed into the Steph's Packed Lunch studio in Leeds on Thursday – while her fiancé [Carl Woods](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/carl-woods) walked alongside her.

The I'm A Celebrity star talked in her documentary about getting back on the road following her sixth driving ban. Katie is nine months into her current ...

"Getting in the car was a terrible mistake which I'm so sorry for. I can't want to get a pink Moped again." The time bomb has been ticking and it's exploded now. Mental health is cruel, it's horrible when you go through stuff. The former glamour model was banned from driving following her car crash in mid-September. Katie continued: "I recognise my mental health has been shaken, the triggers are there, I need help.

Katie opened up about the traumatic ordeal and said she was sexually assaulted, which left her having to be treated for traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at The ...

The former glamour model sent support to Yazmin back in July after she was involved in a serious car accident which killed her boyfriend Jake McLean. And many of Katie's pals have thrown support behind her ahead of the programme airing. The glamour model was with her children and a film crew when they were ambushed while travelling from Johannesburg late in the evening.