Katie Price forced to cancel book signing as she fails to sell out event
KATIE Price fans in Manchester were left feeling disappointed after she was forced to cancel her upcoming bookshop appearance.
The 46-year-old star has just released her latest memoir, This Is Me, and was due to appear at Waterstone’s Manchester’s Trafford Centre for a book signing.
However, ticket company Eventbrite noted the event was cancelled.
A source told The Sun: “Katie was due to appear in Manchester to talk about her new book but they didn’t sell enough tickets.
“The decision was made to cancel it quietly. There will be some disappointed fans out there who really wanted to see her.”
She told Channel 5 News: “I’m doing really, really good. I’ve learned a lot about myself, a lot about mental health and obviously being diagnosed with the severe ADHD, learnt a lot about that, which I wish I knew years ago.”The cancellation comes after Katie released This Is Me detailing the past dramatic few years of her life.
In the last five years alone, she was declared bankrupt twice, lost her Mucky Mansion and was involved in a horror car crash.
She blames the crash on drinking alcohol and taking cocaine before getting behind the wheel after a call from daughter Princess, saying she wasn’t allowed to see her.
Katie admitted she’d “had some friends round for a few hours” on the night of the smash.
She said: “One of them had some coke on them and, yes, I had a little bit of it, probably a couple of lines, it wasn’t even a lot. I had some alcohol too.”
In the new book she also opens up about suffering a heartbreaking miscarriage while with her ex-fiance Carl Woods.
She also slams TV hosts Alan Carr and Graham Norton for “taking the p**s out of her” over the years when she was struggling.
She said: “Graham Norton, Alan Carr… they would dress up as me after I’d been on, mocking me or my outfits or my hair. No-one called them out on it.”
Despite the hardships she’s been through in recent years, Katie has been determined to look forward – even reporting her financial issues are now sorted.
She told Channel 5 News: “I’m doing really, really good. I’ve learned a lot about myself, a lot about mental health and obviously being diagnosed with the severe ADHD, learnt a lot about that, which I wish I knew years ago.”
She continued: “It becomes noise in your head, and then you just can’t cope with it, you think there’s no light at the end of the tunnel and then that caused depression, then a breakdown, suicidal, ended up at the Priory.
Katie Price - FOUR recent court battles
KATIE Price has had her fair share of brushes with the law. Here we detail four of those:
- December 2021: Katie avoided jail for flipping her BMW in a smash in Horsham, while under the influence of drink and drugs. She was instead handed a 16-week prison sentence suspended for a year, 100 hours community service and ordered to attend 20 rehab sessions.
- The cash-strapped mum-of-five was first declared bankrupt in 2019 in a bankruptcy court, over unpaid debts of £3.2 million
- Katie was declared bankrupt by a bankruptcy court for a second time in March over an unpaid tax bill of £761,994.05
- May 2024: Katie was served an eviction notice by the courts relating to her Mucky Mansion home following her second bankruptcy.
“Then started to realise, get to the root of each trauma that I’ve had, knowing how to deal with it – doesn’t mean to say you forget it, but you learn to deal with them.
“I’m only human at the end of the day, and it takes a toll on you, and in a way, I’m not glad that it’s happened, but it’s happened and I know that I would never ever hit rock bottom again, because now I know how to deal with issues.”