The ex-husband of Katie Price’s fiancee described in court today how the former beauty model left her feeling “scared and vulnerable” after sending her a “vile and nasty” message.
Price admitted to breaking a restraining order by texting Kieran Hayler and calling Michelle Penticost a “gutter s**g,” and now faces the possibility of going to jail.
After screaming a foul-mouthed “tirade of abuse” at Miss Penticost during an argument in a school playground, the 44-year-old former I’m A Celeb contestant was prohibited from communicating with her for five years in June 2019.
Tell your c***ing w***e piece of s**t girlfriend not to start on me, the message read.
‘She has a restraining order so shouldn’t try antagonise me as she is in breach and I’m sure she doesn’t want people knowing that she was having an affair with you behind my back. That gutter s**g.’
After pleading guilty to the charge at an earlier hearing, Price was back at Lewes Crown Court today for sentencing.
Ms. Penticost said in a victim impact statement delivered in court today that Price’s violation of the restraining order had a “devastating effect” on her mental health.
She said: ‘The impact of what Katie has done is very upsetting, I feel threatened and intimidated.
‘I feel demoralised and not wanting to go out. The language used made me feel scared. I felt it was an attack on me.
‘The consequences are I feel she will attack me. I felt by having a restraining order it would make me feel safe but by someone breaching it it has made me feel very vulnerable.’
Nicholas Hamblin, representing Price, said his client had pleaded guilty to the breach but she had been under a ‘misunderstanding’ that the restraining order ‘worked both ways’.
He added: ‘She has shown signs of remorse, she accepts an indirect breach.’
Mr Hamblin said that Price had sought help for her emotional problems at the Priory Clinic.
He said she suffered from a ‘depressive disorder and anxiety’, and added: ‘Miss Price is learning to cope with her emotional problems and to not react in the way she has in this case.’
He continued: ‘She has two different personalities, the public one and the vulnerable one of being in the public eye and every day in the public eye no matter what she does.
‘It’s perhaps a case of building someone up only to knock them down.’
He added that ‘there was a lot of good to be said’ for Price and she was considered in a probation report to be at ‘low risk of reoffending’.
On January 21, at about 5.45 p.m., police arrived at Price’s residence and took her into custody.
She was eventually freed after a 12-hour interrogation, but not before the authorities took her phone and looked through it for possible evidence.
Price sent the ‘vile and nasty’ message, according to testimony given at a previous hearing before Crawley Magistrates Court, after Michelle Penticost posted advice on how to handle rude people on Instagram.
The court was informed that Miss Price and Miss Penticost had a history of “clear antagonism.”
After colliding with her BMW X5 while intoxicated in September of last year, Price received a 16-week suspended sentence.
After last-minute payments of £7,358 in fines for traffic violations, Price avoided a potential jail sentence in January.
She is currently dealing with a new accusation of speeding, which will be heard before magistrates in July.
Earlier this year Price again avoided jail after striking a last-minute deal to pay off her bankruptcy debts.
The 44-year-old was scheduled to appear before the High Court to explain why she hadn’t paid back £2.3m she owed after being declared bankrupt in 2019.
But the former model had her bankruptcy hearing postponed for a second time after agreeing an 11th-hour deal to pay back the money.
It comes after Price was pictured cutting a solemn figure as she left her make-up masterclass in London after a low turnout last night.
In recent months, the former beauty model has been giving masterclasses for fans across the nation. On Wednesday afternoon, she also participated in a class in Leicester.
After the class, she was picked up by her fiancé, 33-year-old Carl Woods, from former Big Brother contestant Aisleyne Horgan-Fakin’ Wallace’s It salon.
As she exited the store, Price was spotted carrying a handbag with beige accents, pink and red gift bags, and other items.
She was dressed in pink sneakers with white soles and a brown tracksuit with a short-sleeved blouse.
As she walked to Woods’ car, the former Celebrity Big Brother winner hid her eyes behind a pair of sunglasses.
The former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Campmate appeared to have only a few guests for her London outing, with some fans posing for photos outside the salon prior to the event.
After hosting the workshop, she was seen gathering her luggage inside the salon.
After her tragic drink- and drug-fueled breakdown, Price said earlier this year that she had “hit rock bottom.”
The star discusses the collision, for which she received a 16-week suspended sentence and a two-year driving ban, in scenes from her Channel 4 series Katie Price’s Mucky Mansion.
When Katie flipped her uninsured BMW X5 into a hedge while driving while inebriated and disqualified on a country road close to the Sussex property that is featured in her new series, she informs the camera that she “could have killed someone or myself.”
After the September crash, Katie is seen in the next scenes going back to her house to resume the makeover while the voiceover informs us that she has spent a total of 30 days in a mental health facility.
She tells the camera: ‘I mean I can deal with a lot of things, stress, pressure, I breathe that. Behind closed doors there’s drama, no ones life is perfect.
‘When it hits me personally, that’s what I can’t deal with. I regret getting in the car, I could have killed someone. I could have killed myself. My kids might not have had a mum. It’s awful.
‘I was rock bottom at that point. It was a wake up call. I don’t want to be in that situation again. In fact I don’t want to be in a situation where I feel that sad inside that I need to just go and do something, be destructive and hurt people around me because I don’t know how to cope with it.
‘I have now decided to see a therapist every week for the rest of my life and put my hand up and say yeah I need help, help me.’