Katie Price's mum has revealed she seriously considered sectioning the former glamour model over fears she was suicidal.
Concerned Amy Price believes Katie's drunken BMW crash in September 2021 was an attempt to kill herself after she hit "rock bottom".
Mother-of-five Katie pleaded guilty to drink driving, driving whilst disqualified and driving without insurance after recovering from the incident, which reportedly occurred after a blazing row with on-off beau, Carl Woods.
Speaking in her new memoir, 'The Last Word', Amy, 70, described the crash and its aftermath as "shocking", adding that it left her fearing the worst.
Describing it as a situation that "no parent ever imagines having to deal with", Amy explained: "It had all come to a head. After all the years of failed relationships, betrayals by friends, duplicitous managers, and the painful loneliness she had experienced all her life.
"We seriously thought about sectioning Kate under the Mental Health Act, but I just couldn’t do that to my own daughter."
The timing couldn't have been worse for Amy, who had learned she was battling the fatal lung condition, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Recalling the moment Katie called to apologise about the car crash, she revealed the star told her that she "didn't want to be here".
Amy added: "Thankfully, a decent man had stopped his car to help her and I could hear him in the background telling her, 'You’ve got five kids. You’ve got everything to live for'."
Along with Katie's stepdad, Paul, and her siblings Dan and Sophie, the family soon had a conversation about getting her sectioned in order to get the "help she desperately needed".
Paul took 45-year old OnlyFans star Katie straight from the police station to The Priory.
There, Amy's anguish only grew further after learning her daughter had made a second attempt to take her own life by slashing her wrists, something she refers to as her "lowest ebb".
Katie went on to spend a month at the facility, meanwhile, before being handed a 16-week jail sentence, suspended for a year. She is now undergoing further therapy and is being assessed for ADHD.
Elsewhere in the memoir Amy reveals that she attributes Katie's troubles to two childhood traumas.
In doing so she opens up about harrowing incidents that saw her daughter molested by a paedophile when she was just seven, and how a photographer attempted to pressure her into posing in just a t-shirt at 13. He was later jailed for drugging vulnerable would-be models.
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