Love, Lipstick and Lies by Price Katie

Author:Price, Katie [Price, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781448151479
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-10-23T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

I GET LEGAL

Throughout my career I’ve noticed that the press likes to have a pop at me, and sometimes it has felt as if I get more than my fair share of adverse coverage – more so than other celebrities anyway. Some of it probably stems from me always being myself, and not putting on a polished act. I accept that when you are in the public eye, the press are going to write about you and it’s a two-way thing; if they hadn’t, I wouldn’t have become famous. But while I can take criticism for things I’ve actually done, it’s when lies are printed that it really eats away at me. People read those stories and believe they are true, and end up forming a bad opinion of me. After the break-up of my first marriage, for instance, the stories were horrendous. I was portrayed as a bad mother, as out of control, it was said that my businesses and books were failing, and that I was desperate to get back with Pete. It felt as if sections of the press were out to destroy me. It was tough for me to be taken seriously for a while because everyone thought I’d gone off the rails when Pete left, and I was portrayed as someone whose career was over.

The constant battering really got to me and there were times when I felt very low and depressed. I took the decision at the end of 2009 to withdraw from doing magazine interviews and to step out of the public eye for a while. It was a risk but I had to do it. I needed to get on with my life without the constant criticism of every single thing I did. I would still do my press calls and interviews when I had a new book, TV show or product to launch, but that was it. I was sick of the press twisting what I said, sick of the lies that were printed about me. It didn’t seem to matter how many times I pointed out that something wasn’t true, no one seemed to want to believe me. I felt that some of the tabloids and magazines had treated me like shit; they showed no respect for my feelings. I lost all faith in them. In fact, it felt as if they didn’t even think I was a human being with feelings at all. It felt as if no one was giving me any room to breathe, no one would give me a chance. It was a horrible, horrible time.

One of the worst experiences I had was when I tried to stick up for Alex early on in our relationship. He was in a film that the press claimed glorified rape. In defending him, I said that he would not make such a film because he knew that, early in my glamour career, I had been raped by a celebrity and what a devastating experience this had been for me.

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