KATIE Price’s sister has opened up about the star’s horrific car crash saying: “She could have killed someone – or killed herself.”
Sophie, 32, speaks out in new BBC documentary Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next, which airs on Monday.
The mum-of-one explains: “When I saw the police there, I thought: ‘She’s really done it this time.’
“She’s like the cat with nine lives but I looked and thought: ‘This is going to be a nightmare.’ It was a shock. It was absolutely awful.
“She could have killed someone or killed herself. Kate puts on such a front, you think: ‘She’s alright, she’s fine.’
“Clearly, she’s not. When people have mental health problems they’re very good at covering it up and Kate is very good at covering up when she’s not feeling right.”
Reality TV star Katie narrowly escaped death when she flipped her car, following a cocaine and alcohol binge in September.
She pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and spent a month in rehab at The Priory, where she was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and given daily therapy.
Katie, who told the court she was driving to see a friend because she was “lonely”, tells her distraught mum Amy: “There’s no one to blame for me getting in that car but myself.
“But if people could see, that night, what was going on in my head . . . I wasn’t telling myself not to get in the car. I just thought, ‘I need to go’. So I’m lucky nothing happened.”
Now talking to a therapist once a week, Katie adds: “I need to learn to cope when these situations happen because I don’t want to go into self-destruct.”
Speaking in the documentary she describes how Harvey going to residential college was a heartbreaking wrench that sent her spiralling into anxiety.
She reveals she struggled to cope when her son moved three hours’ drive away from their Sussex home in August last year.
Elsewhere she speaks about her hopes for Harvey‘s life, saying: “You get parents saying: ‘I wish my child would be a lawyer, or a doctor.’
“With Harvey, if he can go round a shop and fill up a trolley, or learn how to fold a towel up properly in the bathroom after a bath, or make the bed .”
