Princess Andre has revealed she 'saw things kids shouldn't' during her childhood - and is still recovering from her mother's 'dark times'. 

The 18-year-old - who is the daughter of Katie Price and Peter Andre - has for the first time laid bare the impact of her parents' tumultuous divorce.

Speaking during episode one of her ITV show, The Princess Diaries, which aired on Sunday night, she told viewers: 'I had so much on my plate at such a young age.'

Princess also described the impact her mother's subsequent chaotic romances and lifestyle had on her growing up.

She told how Katie fell into a 'dark' place following her 2018 split from third husband Kieran Hayler - who she shares Bunny, 10, and Jett, 11, with - after she discovered he had been unfaithful throughout their marriage.

Katie herself has previously admitted to attempting suicide and relying on drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism at the time, and now Princess has told how it affected her.

Princess revealed on the show how she has a counsellor and previously 'couldn't just go to my dad' due to her parents, who split in 2009, 'not liking each other'. 

'She [Katie] is so unpredictable and she lives life and doesn't care,' said Princess.

'I love that, I'd love that mind set of I don't care because deep down I do, I'll get to bed and cry about it. 

'I do have a counsellor who I see now and then and I write everything down in my notes. I wish I could have had a happier childhood, I had so much on my plate at such a young age and had things at the back of my mind. 

'My mum and Kieran split up when I was 10 years old, we were close to him. He was in our lives for five years. 

'He did a lot of stuff and when they split everything went downhill.' 

Laying bare Katie's 'problems', Princess said she hasn't 'fully recovered' from her mum's breakdown but revealed she did apologise and they now 'talk a lot'.  

She continued: '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. 

'Kids in school would ask me about it and I was like 11 and I would just cry about it in bed. I couldn't just go to my dad about it because I grew up with them not liking each other. 

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

'She spoke to me about it and she apologised and I never wanted an apology but it was a lot that she acknowledged it and she realised she needed to prioritise us, we now talk a lot and she is now my best friend.'

Princess also revealed how she used to stay at Katie's Monday and Tuesday nights and dad Peter's Wednesday and Thursdays, however the weekends 'it was whoever's turn it was'.  

Comparing the two households, she added: 'Mum's house was chaotic there weren't many rules, a few boundaries maybe but it was go to bed when you want and eat what you want. 

Last year, Katie reflected on the emotional time she tried to take her own life after 'reaching breaking point' following her divorce from Kiaran .

Katie, who is now in a happy relationship with JJ Slater, at the time admitted herself into the Priory shortly after she noticed she was relying on drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism amid her suicide attempt.

Speaking to You Magazine, Katie opened up about the emotional and difficult time in her life, she said: 'People don’t realise what I’ve been through'.

They don’t know, for example, that she tried to take her own life, as she got divorced from her third husband, Hayler. 

'I just didn’t want to be here any more. I thought, "What’s the point? No one’s here, no one’s helping, no one understands what I am feeling." 

'I woke up from it thinking, "What the f***? I can’t do this to my kids." I was at breaking point.'

Katie went to private hospital the Priory, and realised that the suicide attempt was the culmination of a long breakdown. 

She had been taking cocaine as a means of escape, and this shocked her friends and family, because, she tells You Magazine, she isn’t an addict. 

Katie added: 'I think there’s this persona of me that I’m a drinker and a cokehead, but I never have been, ever. Yeah, when I was younger, I would go out and get p***ed. Who wouldn’t?'

'It [cocaine] is the dirtiest thing. When you’re not in a good place, it taps you on the shoulder and says, “I’m here, I can help you.” To me, it wasn’t a drug that made me want to party. 

'It was more a way to block everything out, to suppress me completely. I was like this,’ she mimes looking down and in at herself. "It was like I was in rigor mortis."

While most people who take cocaine get an intense high, it shut Price down. This is typical of people who suffer from ADHD, and it was after her stay in the Priory that she had a formal diagnosis.

"I hate labels," she says, "but it’s made me understand more. I found all my school reports and they all say exactly the same thing: “Dreamer. Gets bored. So capable but gets easily distracted and doesn’t concentrate.” It all makes sense.'

Does she think her life might have been different if she had received a diagnosis as a child?

'I don’t know. And maybe I wouldn’t be where I am today. So I don’t regret any of it, but now I am older, I can understand that I need to hold back and evaluate situations more.'

Katie and Kieran separated in March 2018 after five years of marriage but their divorce wasn't finalised until four years later.

The couple split after several infidelities by Kieran, with the stripper later admitting he suffered from sex addiction.

Elsewhere Princess shared with fans that she was 'very self conscious and hated' the way she looked when she was younger, specifically her lips and nose. 

The teenager praised mum Katie for her 'confidence' while posing topless for page 3 but insisted she is 'more reserved and could never do that' as she gets 'embarrassed'.

She said: 'I used to hate my lips and nose. When I was younger I used to get really picked on for my nose being too big and my eyes being to big and my lips being non existent.

'I used to be very self conscious and hated myself, so when I discovered makeup and that I could enhance my features and make my nose smaller and lips fuller. Now I feel more confident, not fully but about certain things because I hated everything before I discovered makeup.

'You don't need to [have a nose job] at 18. I'm not against surgery at all, if you know my mum you know she's had a lot of surgery and she owns it but she was the one who told me not to get it because I'm beautiful the way I am.

'There are so many things makeup has taught me and I've learn't to love myself without makeup.

'People think because my mum was a page 3 model I have to be that confident too. Well done on her but I could never do that, I'm self conscious and more reserved, I'm more embarrassed,' Princess said. 

Meanwhile in the first episode of the series, horrified Peter has reacted to some of the 'disgusting' messages his 18-year-old daughter Princess has received from men online.

The singer remarked: 'that really made me feel sick' as the influencer shared some of the messages she is sent on social media as the family appeared in her new ITV2 documentary.

Princess was 17 at the time and was filmed speaking to a friend about some of the more negative sides of having a big social media presence and fame at a young age.

Princess says to her friend of the messages: 'Usually it's like old men, going on about my toes, sometimes they'll be like, 'let me take you on a date'.'

In a solo section to camera, she added: 'I can't even read this message out, it's actually disgusting.

'I do love my job and I do love social media and I do love interacting with people but there is a dark side to social media that people don't see, and there are a lot of inappropriate messages that yeah some of them can be horrible.

'Like I'm literally 17, that's actually not OK.'

Later in the episode in a scene with her dad Princess mentioned to Peter some of the messages she has been getting.

When he enquired as to what they are asking her, she replied 'mostly feet pictures'.

An alarmed Peter replied: 'Please God that's the only thing they ask for.'

Princess then divulged to him that some of the men also ask: 'Are you finally legal now?'

Peter immediately covers his face with his hands and said: 'Oh my God Biss I didn't think it was going to be like that...

'That really made me feel sick, like in the pit of my stomach. I hate it because you're still my baby.'

On Friday, Princess hit back at claims she's embroiled in a family feud with her famous mother Katie.  

The former glamour model said she was 'upset' after alleging she was banned from filming scenes for the series, which follows a string of recent events, including her daughter's 18th birthday party, where Katie says she was also not welcome.

But speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Princess explained any fallout from Katie's outburst at not being involved in her TV debut will be dealt with behind closed doors, as she insisted: 'It's my show, it's not based on my parents, it's focused on me. To be honest there's no rift between me and either of my parents.'

Later in the series, viewers will see Princess celebrate turning 18 on her show and although Katie wasn't at the party, thrown by her father Peter, the teen stands firm that her mother was never banned from attending.

She said: 'What I would usually do, as I've done my whole life, would be to spend the morning with one parent and the evening with the other.

'As it happened, mum ended up being away, and dad had already decided to throw me a last minute birthday party, which we filmed for the show.

'But anyhow, it would be weird if both parents were in the same room, as I'm sure a lot of people out there with divorced parents can relate to.'

Katie expressed her frustrations at being 'disrespected' and 'disregarded', saying she longed to be by her daughter's side as she follows in the footsteps of her famous reality TV parents and bids to take over their crown.

In 2021, Katie was awarded a 16-week suspended jail term after being sentenced for a drink-driving crash.

The TV personality flipped her BMW onto its side at about 6.20am on September 28, on a country road near her West Sussex home.

Following the accident, she tested positive for alcohol and cocaine, and admitted drink-driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

Katie is currently in a loved-up relationship with former Married At First Sight star JJ Slater.

The model was famously married to Peter Andre from 2005 to 2009 after meeting on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and welcomed Princess and son Junior. 

Admitting she was on the 'rebound' Katie started dating cage fighter Alex Reid a mere eight weeks later. The pair were married from 2010 to 2012 before their acrimonious split.

She then wed the father of her two youngest children, Kieran, in 2013 after a whirlwind romance and their split - once again bitter - came amid allegations of new infidelities, three years after she caught him sleeping with her best friends Jane Poutney and Chrissy Thomas.

The Real Husbands of Katie Price

In the decades since she first rose to fame, Katie Price has enjoyed – and quite likely endured – a decidedly busy love life that has seen her walk down the aisle three times before heading to divorce court in equal measure. Here's a look at the trio with whom she exchanged 'I dos'... and 'I don'ts':

 

PETER ANDRE (2005 - 2009)

The nation got to watch love blossom between the pair when they starred alongside one another on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here back in 2004. The flying sparks soon became nuptials, with blushing bride Katie and her erstwhile pop hunk beau tying the knot at Highclere Castle (the grand Berkshire estate of Downton Abbey fame) in September 2005. Katie, who was already mother to son Harvey (born in 2002 following a romance with former footballer Dwight Yorke), soon started a family with her new husband. The couple welcomed son Junior in 2005, while daughter Princess followed in 2007. Creation between the pair also came artistically, with the release of reality programmes, a failed talk show and a foray into the music world. However, after four years of securing their position as the Ken and Barbie of reality TV and glossy magazine deals, the pair announced in 2009 that they were going their separate ways.

 

 

ALEX REID (2010 - 2012) 

Katie soon switched her romantic allegiance from a onetime ab-bearing pop heartthrob to musclebound MMA fighter Alex Reid. The two met at Michelle Heaton's 30th birthday party at London's Cafe de Paris. But shortly after they got together, Katie dumped Alex on live TV, only for him to win her back and the pair go from strength to strength. Weeks after proudly cheering her man on to a win on the 2010 edition of Celebrity Big Brother (also featuring none other than her ex-boyfriend Dane Bowers), Katie jetted off to Las Vegas to tie the knot with her new partner in February 2010 after just seven months of dating – and nine months after divorcing Peter. Following their Sin City sojourn, the pair returned to their native UK, where they had a formal ceremony – which was filmed for a TV series. However, after just 11 months of marriage, the pair announced they were splitting and their divorce was finalised in March 2012. While Katie declared at the time that she married Alex 'too soon', she would later go on to reveal that a major factor in their split was his cross-dressing alter-ego Roxanne.

 

 

KIERAN HAYLER (2013 - 2021)

Showing herself to be a true woman of the times, Katie embarked on a romance with former stripper Kieran after the two met on the now-defunct Blackberry Messenger service in 2012. And just two months after altering the paths of their lives via those thumb-tapped fateful opening messages, the twosome would go on to exchange nuptials in the Caribbean. Kieran proposed to a thrilled Katie on Christmas Day 2012, and just three weeks later, the pair would be pronounced husband and wife in the idyllic shores of the Bahamas on January 16, 2013. They had their marriage blessed in Weston-super Mare, and in the months that followed, it appeared that Katie had finally found her happily ever after. They welcomed son Jett in August 2013, and daughter Bunny in August 2014. But Katie's world came crashing down in 2014, when she discovered that Kieran had cheated on her with her close friend of 20 years, Jane Pountney, and was enjoying a fling with another of her pals, Chrissy Thomas. After publicly lashing out at all parties involved (and naming her pet pigs after her friends-turned-foes), Katie appeared determined to make things work when she renewed her vows with Kieran in 2015. But alas, it would not turn out to be third time lucky for Katie, as the pair split in 2018 amid even more cheating allegations. Their 'amicable' divorce was finalised in early 2021.