Katie Price’s marriage to her third husband was marred by toxicity, persistent infidelity and a ‘Mucky Mansion’ – now Princess Andre has spoken of her childhood pain

Growing up in the public eye was tough for Princess Andre(Image: ITV)

Princess Andre has a new reality show and The Princess Diaries is already giving us plenty of insight into her relationship with mum Katie Price.

One of the big takeaways from the the ITV show is that the 18-year-old influencer’s admission that Katie’s troubled past had led her to experience things ‘kids shouldn’t see’. “I wish I could have had a happier childhood,” she said. “I had so much on my plate at such a young age and had things at the back of my mind.”

Princess, who is the daughter of Katie’s first husband Peter Andre, was 10 when her mum split from third husband Kieran Hayler after five years together. “Mum was heartbroken and she went through a dark time and it was things kids shouldn’t see and when we needed our mum there, she wasn’t there because she had her own problems,” the teenager said on the show.

Katie and Kieran fell head over heels when they met in 2013 but it wasn’t third time lucky for Katie(Image: Getty Images)

“I’m not healed or fully recovered from it but mum has fixed herself compared to how she was back then.”

Katie, 47, and Kieran married in Weston-Super-Mare in 2013 and went onto have two children together, Jett and Bunny. They renewed their vows in Barbados in 2016 on what was said to be a make or break holiday, with Kieran cheating on Katie multiple times throughout the course of their relationship.

One of Kieran’s mistresses was Jane Pountney, Katie’s friend of 20 years and he cheated on her with a second pal, Chrissy Thomas. The vow renewal didn’t work – in 2017 the former glamour model found out Kieran had been unfaithful once more with their children’s nanny, Nikki Brown and the following year they went their separate ways.

“He did a lot of stuff and when they split up everything kind of went downhill,” said Princess. “My mum, obviously being heartbroken, didn’t deal with that the best way. She went through a very, very like dark time, which is understandable.”

Katie later opened up about her ‘toxic’ marriage to Kieran, blaming him for the ‘disgusting’ state of her home and her depression, which saw her want to stay sleep all day.

Katie appeared in court for sending abusive messages to Kieran’s new love(Image: PA)

The 38-year-old reality star told the Daily Mail this week he would love to apologise in person to Princess for the impact his troubled relationship with Katie had on her. “I am as sorry as I can be to Princess witnessing us go through such a horrible separation,” he said. “Leaving them was one of the hardest things I ever had to do.”

But Kieran, who revealed he longer has a relationship with his former step-children, also told the publication he had been the best step dad he could be. “I regret the way things happened but at the same time those are issues I never put around the children, they were put around the children by everything becoming so public,” he said.

Kieran moved on with Michelle Penticost and they had son Apollo before they split earlier this year. In 2019, Michelle secured a restraining order against Katie for harassing her.