Katie Price admits her suicide attempt was 'the culmination of a long breakdown' after she split from her third husband Kieran Hayler

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Katie Price has admitted her suicide attempt was 'the culmination of a long breakdown' after she split from her third husband Kieran Hayler.

The former glamour model, 46, reflected on the emotional time she tried to take her own life after 'reaching breaking point' following her divorce.

Katie, who is in a happy relationship with JJ Slater, 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 to Bryony Gordon 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 me, 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.'