Katie Price's ex-husband Peter Andre has explained why he decided not to take part in her new Sky documentary series.
The former glamour model has lifted the lid on her life in four-part film Kate Price: Nothing to Hide which features a number of her former partners, famous friends, family and her children, but her first husband is noticeably absent from the project and he revealed he didn't want to talk about their relationship because he wants to protect the former couple's kids, Princess, 19, and Junior, 20.
A statement from Peter was shown at the end of the third episode of the documentary which explained his absence. It read: "I have chosen not to speak publicly about these matters out of love and respect for Junior and Princess.
"Today Katie and I maintain an amicable relationship in the interests of our children. I sincerely wish her happiness and peace for the future."
Katie and Peter met on reality TV show I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! and produced two children, Junior and Princess, as well as their own fly-on-the wall TV series. They were married between 2005 and 2009.
Katie is also mother to eldest son Harvey, 24, from a previous relationship who has special needs, as well as Jett, 12, and Bunny, 10, with her ex-husband Kieran Hayler.
Junior and Princess both took part in the Sky documentary and they opened up about the dark times they endured as children when their mother suffered a breakdown and started abusing drugs.
Junior said: "I remember missing her so much and I remember this one time in particular, I was in her bed waiting for her to come back. "I woke up, probably about 3.30am, to some loud noises. I saw her coming in the room and I’ll never forget the look on her face … she was obviously on stuff, right?
"I could see it in her eyes. And it scared me because I’ve never seen my mum look like that. She’s there but she’s not there. She wasn’t being a mum. She wasn’t the mum that I knew from being a little, little boy.
"Mum was on drugs and she could not look after us, and that is the reality of it. She couldn’t."
Junior went on to explain the siblings rallied around and looked after each other with the elder kids learning how to microwave meals to feed the family.
He said: "We was kind of like the siblings we’d just look after one another quite a lot. I remember me trying to figure out 'Is this food microwavable?' to feed us for dinner. "Not that she didn’t feed us, but she was out all the time."
Katie later confessed she had no idea her kids suffered so much during those times.
During an appearance on ITV show This Morning, she explained: "[It was] awful ... They are amazing. And when they done the interview ... They said: 'Mum if we're going to do this, we're going to be brutally honest ... and I said: 'I want you to speak from your heart.' And Junior said: 'I proper broke down' and Princess said: 'So did I' and I was like 'Why?' ... "[Because] I never knew [what they went through] because obviously I wanted to kill myself and I did try ...
"That period of my life, I don't think people realise when I said when I said I had a breakdown, I wanted to die, didn't want to be here.
"And so as much as I thought I was being a mum, I wasn't. I was vacant ... For young kids like that wanting their mum ... I was trying to be the perfect mum and obviously I wasn't. It kills me I put them through that ... "
She went on to add: "Obviously we've come through the other end and they're like: 'We've got our mum back' but what confused them is that I was such an amazing mum, had the breakdown, didn't have the mum that they needed and wanted.
"I wasn't mentally there to be able to do it. And it kills me that I put them through that ... The kids knowing I wasn't right ... I put all my family through it ... it's awful but it's real life. It can happen to anyone."
