Princess and Junior Andre’s raw truth about Katie Price’s past

Princess and Junior Andre say their mum, Katie Price, wasn’t “being a mum” during periods of cocaine use, leaving them feeling lonely, fending for themselves, and, for Junior, eventually moving out to live with his dad, Peter Andre. Their tearful accounts in a new Sky documentary matter because they shift the story from headlines to childhood reality.

Key Takeaways

• Princess and Junior Andre speak through tears about how Katie Price’s drug use shaped their home life.
• They describe loneliness, absence, and having to “look after each other,” including relying on microwave meals.
• Junior recalls waking at 3:30am and seeing his mum “obviously on stuff,” saying it scared him.
• Junior says he left home as a teen, deciding the environment was unhealthy, and moved in with Peter Andre.
• Katie says hearing how her kids experienced it “breaks my heart,” acknowledging “kids need their mum.”

What did Katie Price’s kids actually say about her cocaine binges?

In the Sky documentary series Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, Princess Andre, 19, and Junior Andre, 21, deliver some of the most direct and emotional comments yet about their mum’s darkest period. In a joint interview shown in the series, both siblings break down as they describe what it felt like when Katie Price was using drugs and frequently absent.

Princess describes the after-school emptiness in a detail that’s hard to forget: she says her mum would spray perfume on a blanket and give it to her when she left, and Princess would cuddle it and cry because she felt so lonely.

Junior recounts a night that marked a turning point. He says he was in his mum’s bed waiting for her to come back, then woke up at around 3:30am to loud noises and saw her come into the room. He says he will never forget the look on her face, and that she was “obviously on stuff,” adding that it scared him because he’d never seen his mum like that: “She’s there, but she’s not there.”

Both siblings also describe practical, day-to-day impacts: they say they had to fend for themselves, including making microwave meals and “looking after each other.”

How did it change Princess and Junior Andre’s childhood day-to-day?

The siblings’ memories focus less on celebrity chaos and more on the quiet routines children build when a parent isn’t present. Princess and Junior say their mum’s absences left them feeling lonely and unloved, and they portray a home life where they leaned on each other to get through it.

Junior frames it as losing the version of his mum he knew when he was younger. He says that when she “wasn’t in the right headspace,” she “wasn’t being a mum,” and he missed the love he remembered from childhood.

That sense of instability didn’t stay abstract. Junior says the situation became a pattern, and he started seeing her “fall down the same hole,” again and again.

And eventually, he says he reached his limit. In the documentary, he says: “Mum was on drugs and she couldn’t look after us and that’s the reality of it.” He adds that he “clocked” it was an unhealthy environment and he needed to get out.

Why did Junior leave home, and where did he go?

According to the accounts shown in the documentary, Junior ultimately left home as a teenager and went to live with his father, Peter Andre. He describes it as a decision driven by self-protection: he believed the environment was unhealthy, and he needed to remove himself from it.

The series shows Junior tying that choice directly to what he witnessed and what he says he understood about his mum’s drug use at the time. It wasn’t one argument or one tabloid scandal, he suggests—it was repetition, fear, and a growing realization that the situation wasn’t normal.

Princess, in contrast, says she stayed at home with her mum during that period, underscoring how siblings can experience the same crisis differently—one leaving to survive, the other staying and coping in place.

What does Katie Price say now about that period?

Katie Price, now 48, also speaks in the documentary about the impact of hearing her children describe those years. She says that when she hears how they saw it, it “breaks my heart.”

In the series, she acknowledges that although she says they were “always looked after” by people around her, she now recognizes that isn’t enough. She says kids need their mum—her love, and her hugs.

The documentary places this emotional reckoning alongside Katie’s own admissions of poor mental health at the time. She describes being unwell and struggling with suicidal thoughts, and the series links the period to a car crash in September 2021 after a night of drugs and drinking, when she was taken to hospital and then a police station.

It’s a painful “then and now” contrast: the public figure narrating her crisis, and her now-adult children describing what it felt like to grow up inside it.

Why is this “Then & Now” moment hitting people so hard?

Katie Price’s story has lived for years in a tabloid frame—big headlines, relationship chapters, chaos as content. But what Princess and Junior do in this documentary is re-center the conversation on childhood, not celebrity.

That’s why the footage feels so arresting: two young adults, raised in public, speaking in raw, specific memories that cut through the “famous family” haze. A perfume-sprayed blanket. Waiting up in bed. Microwave meals. The feeling of loneliness after school. The moment a child realizes their parent is present physically but absent emotionally.

For many viewers, it’s also a reminder of time. Princess and Junior were kids during the period they describe; now they’re adults narrating it with clarity and grief. That’s nostalgia with teeth—looking back and realizing what wasn’t normal.

If you’re interested in more pop-culture “then & now” stories that revisit old headlines with a sharper lens, see our archive here: Nostalgia: Then & Now.

And if you or someone you know needs support around drug use, a practical starting point is the UK’s NHS guidance on getting help for addiction: NHS: getting help for drug addiction.