Katie Price has told for the first time that she has been diagnosed with ADHD. The former glamour model has opened up about her recent diagnosis and explained that she's helping her mum, Amy, come to terms with understanding the condition.
Her decision to speak out comes as her mum, who suffers from the terminal lung condition idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, is preparing to release her memoir about her life after her daughter Katie was catapulted to fame back in the late 1990s for her glamour modelling work under the pseudonym Jordan.
It was in 2004 that Katie appeared on the third series of ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! where she met and fell in love with now-ex-husband Peter Andre which kickstarted both of their reality TV careers.
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Speaking about being told she has ADHD, Katie, 45, explained that she and her therapist are working on ways in order to make her life easier as she doesn't want to be a "burden" on her poorly mum and family. However, while the mum of five says she "hates labels", she has said is relieved to have had her diagnosis.
Speaking to OK! Magazine, Katie said: "I've tried to educate my mum, but my brain is wired differently to other people. I hate labels, but now my mum and I have both spoken to doctors and she has realised why I’ve done things in the past, why I act the way I do, why I do things, why I am the way I am."
She went on: "It's not because I don’t listen and take it on board, there's just something in me. I've got better now, I've learnt with therapy to hold back, to listen, and think of what other people are saying – maybe they’re right, maybe they're wrong, but I think of the consequences.
"It didn't exist in my head, a consequence, what could go wrong, so, I've learned. It’s taken me 45 years, but I'm still here. I can admit I have made wrong choices, I haven’t listened to certain things my mum or anyone might have said, so it has put me in situations that have been unnecessary and caused drama and stress."
