Katie Price admits to taking cocaine and drinking alcohol before her 2021 horror car crash - but insists she 'wasn't thinking straight' because she was responding to a call from Princess

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Katie Price has confessed that she took cocaine and had alcohol before her horror car crash in 2021, but defended her actions as being motivated by a desire to see her daughter, Princess.

The former glamour model, 46, 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.

Opening up about the incident in her new autobiography, This Is Me, the mother-of-five admitted that she'd 'had some friends round for a few hours' before the crash.

In quotes obtained by The Sun, Katie wrote: '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.'

Katie Price has confessed that she took cocaine and had alcohol before her horror car crash in 2021, but defended her actions as being motivated by a desire to see her daughter, Princess (pictured together)

Katie Price has confessed that she took cocaine and had alcohol before her horror car crash in 2021, but defended her actions as being motivated by a desire to see her daughter, Princess (pictured together)

The former glamour model, 46, flipped her BMW onto its side at about 6.20am on September 28, on a country road near her West Sussex home (pictured)

The former glamour model, 46, flipped her BMW onto its side at about 6.20am on September 28, on a country road near her West Sussex home (pictured)

Following the accident, she tested positive for alcohol and cocaine, and admitted drink-driving while disqualified and driving without insurance (pictured September 27, 2021)

Following the accident, she tested positive for alcohol and cocaine, and admitted drink-driving while disqualified and driving without insurance (pictured September 27, 2021)

But she insisted that she had not been 'thinking straight' at the time, because her daughter Princess, 17, - who she shares with ex-husband Peter Andre - had called her 'upset'. 

She recalled: 'I could tell she was upset so I asked her what was wrong. 

My daughter was ringing to tell me she wasn't allowed to see me and my heart just broke.'

She said she 'wasn't thinking straight', before adding: 'I needed to go right that minute and I didn't care that it was 2am. I didn't care about anything anymore.'

Katie managed to avoid jailtime for the accident, instead being handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence and 100 hours community service. 

She was also slapped with a two-year driving ban, after agreeing to take a drink-drive rehabilitation course, which reduced the ban by 24 weeks.

Katie previously told MailOnline that her mental health was at rock bottom at the time of the crash, explaining: 'I live in the countryside, I had no outlet, I needed to talk to someone and that night I let myself down.' 

'I am not justifying anything, there was a reason why I got in the car and why my head was like that.

'Unfortunately, I did get into that place. I would never get into that place again. It happened and it's real but I have learnt.'

Opening up about the incident in her new autobiography, This Is Me, she insisted that she had not been 'thinking straight' at the time, because her daughter Princess, 17, - who she shares with ex-husband Peter Andre - had called her 'upset'

Opening up about the incident in her new autobiography, This Is Me, she insisted that she had not been 'thinking straight' at the time, because her daughter Princess, 17, - who she shares with ex-husband Peter Andre - had called her 'upset'

Katie managed to avoid jailtime for the accident, instead being handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence and 100 hours community service (pictured at court on September 29, 2021)

Katie managed to avoid jailtime for the accident, instead being handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence and 100 hours community service (pictured at court on September 29, 2021)

Katie has had a long history of issues with the law related to her time on the road, having already committed 11 driving offences in the previous fifteen years

Katie has had a long history of issues with the law related to her time on the road, having already committed 11 driving offences in the previous fifteen years

Katie has had a long history of issues with the law related to her time on the road, having already committed 11 driving offences in the previous fifteen years.

The reality star has also been on the end of repeated driving bans over the years.

In 2019, she was given a three-month ban for driving while disqualified in January of that year. 

That October, Katie was banned from driving for a further 18 months for failing to inform police who was behind the wheel of her pink Range Rover during a crash in South East London. 

In 2018, she landed a six-month ban for speeding after totting up 12 penalty points on her licence.

Five years earlier, she was disqualified from driving for a year for failing to respond to two speeding tickets.

And in 2010, Katie was banned from driving for six months after running 83mph in a 70mph zone in West Sussex.

Katie Price's long history of driving offences that has seen her banned from the road SIX times 

2003 - Katie escaped a speeding charge after police failed to arrest her within 12 weeks of allegedly clocking 70mph in a 40mph zone in her Range Rover.

2008 - After talking on the mobile phone while driving on April 18, Price landed three penalty points.

2009 - Katie failed to provide the identity of the driver after her car was allegedly caught speeding in a 30mph zone and was later handed four penalty points after being clocked at 99mph and was handed four points on her licence.

2010 - She was convicted for failing to be in proper control of her horsebox after veering into another lane in February and was given three points on her licence, bringing her total to 10. Then in December she was banned from driving for six months after doing 83mph in a 70mph zone in her home county of West Sussex.

2012 - Two years later, Katie was disqualified for 12 months for failing to respond to two speeding tickets in September.

2018 - Katie landed a six-month ban in February 2018 for speeding after totting up 12 penalty points for speeding. In July, photos emerged of her driving while still banned. Then in October she was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and spent 13 hours in custody after crashing into a VW Golf and a hedge on a gated estate at 2am.

2019 - She was given a three-month ban for driving while disqualified in January of that year. And then in October, Price was banned from driving for a further 18 months for failing to inform police who was behind the wheel of her pink Range Rover during a crash in Bexley, South East London.

2021 - Katie crashes her BMW car on a country road near her West Sussex home in the early hours of the morning in September after drinking and taking drugs. She pleaded guilty at Crawley Magistrates of drink driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

2022 - She was back in court charged with speeding and failing to provide information to the police.

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