Kerry Katona is moving back up north be look after her mum Sue after patching up their fractured relationship
KERRY Katona is feeling the call of the green, green grass of home and is planning a move back up north.
The Atomic Kitten star wants to move closer to her mum Sue to help care for her after they mended their fractured relationship.
“She’s looking at houses up north as her mum has health problems and she wants to move up there to be closer to her,” a source exclusively tells The Sun.
“Kerry is an only child and wants to be able to look after her mum if, god forbid, her health declines.”
The source adds that this is a “big move” for Kerry, 40, and it’s taken a “long time” to come to the decision to pack up and move home.
Kerry hasn’t always had a strong relationship with her mum who confessed to giving her famous daughter speed when she was just 14.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain together in 2018, Kerry comforted her mum as she wept about being a bad mother in the past.
But the pair have patched up their relationship and now it’s just the distance that keeps them apart.
Last year for Sue’s 60th birthday, Kerry organised a family trip to Bognor Regis to see a show – but her mum didn’t fancy the four hour and 30 minute car journey to her daughter’s neck of the woods.
“I wanted to make it really special for her,” Kerry wrote in her new! magazine column at the time.
“Well, mum can be a right kn*bhead sometimes and she refused to do the long car journey, so we ended up cancelling and losing the money on the tickets.”
Kerry is currently renting a sprawling East Sussex pad with her fiance Ryan Mahoney, 32, and her children Molly, 19, Lilly-Sue, 18, Heidi, 14, Maxwell, 12, and Dylan-Jorge, six.
But she is originally from Warrington and has a circle of “trusted friends” in the north of England.
Hunting for a new family home with her fiance is a sign that Kerry is back on her feet after filing for bankruptcy seven years ago.
The reality star previously called Ryan a ‘godsend’ for helping her cope with the death of her ex George Kay, and more recently joked that “s***ging” him had aided her two-stone weight loss.
The singer has famously been married – and divorced – three times.
She wed first husband Brian McFadden in 2002 before ending it four years later.
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The former Atomic Kitten star’s marriages to Mark Croft and George Kay also failed.
Despite being unlucky in love, Kerry still believes in marriage – and hopes that Ryan is The One.
A source previously said: “She’s saying he really is The One and she would happily accept his proposal in the future.”