Katie Price quits charity boxing match with Bianca Gascoigne after struggling with family troubles
KATIE Price has withdrawn from her charity boxing match with Bianca Gascoigne.
It comes after organisers Boxing With The Stars shared the event poster on Twitter which still featured Katie as a co-headliner.
The star retweeted it and added: "I'm on poster but I am NOT fighting anyone I pulled out."
The event, put on by EastEnders actor Jake Wood and retired professional boxer Spencer Oliver, features a fight between Rogan O'Connor and Dan Osborne as well as bouts including Wayne Bridge, MC Harvey and Rykard Jenkins.
A spokesman for the event told The Sun Online: "We are sad that Katie will no longer be fighting for Boxing with the Stars on Friday 13th October. We wish Katie the best of luck in her future projects, and we are now searching for a female celebrity opponent to fight against Bianca Gascoigne. "
We previously reported how Katie fears she is heading for a breakdown after dealing with her mother’s terminal illness diagnosis, her miscarriage and her husband Kieran Hayler’s cheating.
The Loose Women star fought back tears as she discussed the three devastating events she has faced in the past few weeks.
She said: “I feel like I am in shock and I don’t know what I am doing, what I am feeling. This isn’t a normal situation. To go through so much in such a short time is stressful.
“It is difficult to cope. I don’t know how I am doing it. But I don’t want to be a victim. I am a survivor.
“But I do worry what tomorrow brings. I worry I will wake up and have some kind of breakdown, that it will all become too much.
“I am hurting. I am only human. My friends think I should talk to somebody but I’m just working and being a good mum, doing things that keep me sane, keep me happy.
“I don’t want to sit in a corner and be depressed, to wallow. I am trying to be upbeat and happy. Bad luck comes in threes, doesn’t it? Surely that’s me done.”
The star has battled depression in the past and began taking anti-depressants earlier this year after her bitter court battle with ex-husband Peter Andre, while also dealing with the false accusation of rape against her stepfather Paul Price.
Speaking openly in the hope she can help others dealing with similar problems, Katie said: “I told my doctor I was struggling. I felt ashamed but I had to. I needed medication to help me cope with how low I felt.
“I’ve gone through so much and I’m still sane but I’m thinking, ‘How much more can I take? I’m just one woman. What else is going to be thrown at me?’
“And the difficult thing now is that I don’t know who I can turn to.
“My husband should be the one comforting me but he’s f***ed me over.
"Aside from my immediate family there are only a few people who I genuinely trust.”
Katie had the heartbreaking miscarriage just four days before she confirmed that 30-year-old Kieran was cheating on her for the third time with their nanny Nikki Brown.
Mum-of-five Katie was elated to be adding to her brood and the couple celebrated.
I'd been worried for 18 months that Kieran had been unfaithful. It is 100 per cent why I lost the baby
Katie Price
But Katie feared her sex-addict husband was cheating again.
She said: “I fell pregnant around July and didn’t know he was sleeping with Nikki but I was stressed about Kieran messaging other women. He’d destroyed my trust.
“I’d been worried that he’d be unfaithful for 18 months. I think that is absolutely, 100 per cent, why I lost the baby. I took the test and was so happy. I went to a private hospital to have my first scan but after looking at the monitor, the doctor said to me, ‘The baby’s gone’.
“I was devastated. He offered me the option of a tablet or letting things happen naturally. It was heartbreaking and I was devastated.
“I still am. I’ve lost that baby. I know it was early days but I was excited and now that has gone.”
A few days later, Katie read secret emails between Kieran and Nikki, 40. He admitted to having a year-long affair.
Katie then discovered scores of messages he had sent to other women.
She initially said she was going to divorce him and sell their home in West Sussex. She even talked about a happy new single life and said she may marry again.
I always turn to my mum for everything. She's amazing. She doesn't deserve to be dying of lung disease
Katie Price
But all that has changed following the discovery this week that her beloved mum Amy, 64, is dying of an incurable lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Katie’s voice wobbled as she said: “We actually got told she was ill before the miscarriage but didn’t know the severity.
“I always turn to my mum for everything. She’s amazing.
“It is a cruel world that we live in and my mum doesn’t deserve this.
“My mum is in denial. It is s**t. It is tragic and I am coping but things will get worse. All I want to do is focus on what’s important right now.”
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Kieran isn’t part of that but she is letting him stay at home with their children Jett, four, and Bunny, three, as well as her three kids from previous relationships — Harvey, Junior and Princess.
She said: “I am proud of the way I am dealing with it.
“He knows it is over. I won’t put up with it this time. There’s no going back but why be cruel and take him away from his kids?
“I don’t need to do that. I want our home to be a happy, loving one.
“The children know some of what has gone on. They know about Kieran.
“They are old enough for that and they understand. And I am stronger than before, more resilient. I think part of me was always wary he’d do it again.
“He’s a fragile, silly man with mental problems who needs a lot more help.
"He’s been to see somebody twice since I found out but two sex-therapy sessions don’t rebuild a marriage.
My husband should be the one who is comforting me over the miscarriage but he has f***ed me over
Katie Price
“I told him that he should go to rehab for at least three weeks but he refused. That said a lot. I don’t feel foolish I stayed with him. I just feel let down."
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