Kerry Katona reveals ex husband George Kay would ‘spit in her face and threaten to rape her’
KERRY Katona has told The Sun her ex-husband George Kay would spit in her face and threaten to rape her.
While chatting to Ulrika Jonsson the mum-of-five recalled the most harrowing moments during the couple's two-year marriage.
Ulrika explained in the tell-all interview: "George’s mental health deteriorated and his need of drugs increased.
"At one point, he threatened to rape (Kerry) and her mum and harm their daughter.
"Kerry was forced to hide herself and her daughter in a cupboard."
Kerry admitted to the TV presenter: "It’s so hard to leave. It’s impossible. Anyone who knows, knows."
The couple split in 2017 and in July 2019 George overdosed on drugs and died aged 39.
Kerry was furious with George for leaving their seven-year-old daughter Dylan-Jorge without a dad.
In a separate chat with The Sun earlier this month, Kerry said: "George is my baby's daddy and she's never, ever going to see him again and I've got so much anger towards him for that. I'm so angry.
"You become very, very selfish when you have an addiction. You don't think about other people, and sometimes even your flesh and blood isn't enough, and that's really selfish.
"He's going to be missing out on so many wonderful things, because that kid is one amazing kid."
The mother-of-five went on to recall a distressing video of George suffering from psychosis while naked and surrounded by police that emerged before his death, telling us: "Then in the other respect… I'm not happy, I'm not glad, but I never want her to witness the things I had to witness with him.
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"There was a video of George on a roof, high as a kite, psychosis, naked, screaming, shouting, surrounded by police. He wasn't with me at the time, and that's in the public domain.
"I don't want DJ to go through that, I don't want DJ to have to witness it, that's why I know I will never touch another drug again in my life. If I was to have a line of coke and something was to happen to me, can you imagine the shame I'd bring on my kids? Like I've not put them through enough."
Kerry hoped that speaking out on addiction would help destigmatise the illness, with the star now proudly 13 years clean of drugs after first being introduced to speed by her mum when she was just 14 years old.
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