After claiming she ‘misunderstood’ the terms of a restraining order when she wrote a ‘vile and disgusting’ message about her ex-fiancée, husband Katie Price walked free from court today, avoiding jail once more.
After confessing to the breach in which she called Michelle Pentecost a “gutter s**g” in a text message to Kieran Hayler, the former glamour model was threatened with time in jail.
After screaming a foul-mouthed “tirade of abuse” at Miss Pentecost 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.
The message read: ‘Tell your c***Ing w***e piece of s**t girlfriend not to start on me.
‘She has a restraining order so shouldn’t try antagonize 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.’
Today, Price was back at Lewes Crown Court for sentencing, after pleading guilty to the charge at a previous hearing.
In a victim impact statement read to the court today, Ms Pentecost said the impact of the restraining order breach by Price had a ‘devastating effect’ on her mental wellbeing.
She said: ‘The impact of what Katie has done is very upsetting, I feel threatened and intimidated.
‘I feel demoralized 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 claimed that Price had visited the Priory Clinic for assistance with her mental issues.
“Miss Price is learning to manage with her mental difficulties and to not respond in the way she has in this case,” he said, adding that she has a “depressive condition and anxiety.”
She has two distinct personas, the vulnerable one from always being in the spotlight no matter what she does and the public one from being in the spotlight.
‘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’.
Price was arrested at her home by officers at around 5.45pm on January 21 and taken to Worthing police station.
After a 12-hour interrogation she was released, though not before officers confiscated her phone, which they examined for evidence.
At an earlier hearing Crawley Magistrates Court was told Price sent the ‘vile and nasty’ message after Michelle Penticost uploaded an Instagram post about how to deal with people who were treating you badly.
The court heard there was a history of ‘clear antagonism’ between Miss Price and Miss Penticost.
Last year Price was handed a 16 week suspended sentence after crashing her BMW X5 while drunk last September.
Price then dodged a potential jail term in January after £7,358 fines she owed for driving offences were paid at the last minute.
She now faces a fresh allegation of speeding which is due to 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.
The former glamour model has been hosting masterclasses for fans around the country as of late, also taking part in a class in Leicester on Wednesday afternoon.
She was picked up from former Big Brother star Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace’s Fakin’ It salon by fiancé Carl Woods, 33, after the class.
Price was seen laden with pink and red gift bags and a beige featured handbag as she left the shop.
She wore a brown tracksuit with a short-sleeved top and a pair of pink trainers with white souls.
The former Celebrity Big Brother winner shielded her eyes behind a pair of sunglasses as she made her way to Woods’ car.
the earlier I’m a famous person—get me out of here! With several admirers posing for photos outside the salon prior to the event, campmate’s London jaunt seemed to be attended by only a small number of people.
She hosted the workshop before gathering her items inside the salon.
Price said earlier this year that following her catastrophic alcohol- and drug-fueled accident, she “reached rock bottom.”
In clips from Katie Price’s Mucky Mansion on Channel 4, the actress discusses the collision that resulted in a 16-week suspended sentence and a two-year driving ban.
Katie tells the camera that she ‘could have killed someone or myself’ when she flipped her uninsured BMW X5 into a hedge, while disqualified and under the influence on a country lane near the Sussex home that features in her new series.
After the September crash, Katie is shown in the next scenes going back to her house to begin the makeover while the narrator informs us that she has spent a total of 30 days in a mental health facility.
“I mean, I can cope with a lot of stuff, stress, pressure, I breathe that,” she says to the camera. Drama happens behind closed doors, and nobody’s life is ideal.
‘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 wakeup 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.’