Katie Price reveals she’s feeling ‘overwhelmed’ by the support

Katie Price revealed she is feeling ‘overwhelmed’ by the support she has received after naming the British TV star she alleges raped her more than 20 years ago.

Earlier this week it was revealed how the ex-glamour model, 47, named the star she accused of attacking her during her An Evening with Katie Price And Kerry Katona show.

The mother-of-five drew gasps from the crowd when she named her alleged attacker.

Katie had always maintained that she wouldn’t reveal who he was, but last year, she admitted she had changed her mind and would divulge in time.

Now, Katie has shared that she is ‘overwhelmed’ by the messages she has received while chatting to sister Sophie on her podcast, The Katie Price Show.

Their producer Ben read out several sweet messages from fans, to which Katie responded: ‘I’m so overwhelmed and so happy. I love all of those messages. It is nice, inspiring and encouraging.’

Ben then asks Sophie how it has felt watching Katie’s ups and downs, to which she replies: ‘Where you are constantly fighting, now everything is calm it feels uneasy, where you aren’t used to it but it is nice.’

It comes after it was revealed Katie unmasked the star when she took part in ITV ‘s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in Australia.

It’s believed she disclosed the name during her first stint on the jungle-based reality show in 2004 – though it did not air for legal reasons.

According to The Sun, her pal Kerry, 45, revealed Katie’s jungle revelation to the audience on the same night she divulged his identity at their show.

The publication quotes the Atomic Kitten star as saying: ‘I remember you telling me that when we were in the jungle together.’

A spokesperson for I’m A Celebrity declined to comment when approached by the Daily Mail.

Katie had previously made plans to reveal the name in a new book, after the MeToo movement encouraged her to speak out.

A source told The Sun at the time: ‘Katie thinks she has nothing to lose. After all the MeToo stuff she thinks if other people have revealed their sex attackers, why can’t I?’

A spokesperson for Katie Price has declined to comment to the Daily Mail.

Katie first publicly discussed the alleged rape in an OK! magazine column in 2009.

Her words came in response to allegations that her then-partner Alex Reid had starred in a film which glorified rape.

She said: ‘Rape is a subject very close to my own heart. I was raped when I was younger, more than once. I’d never be associated with anything or anyone so sick.

‘I’ve never talked about this before, but I feel I have to now because I was so hurt by these accusations that I would not take a subject, which affects so many women, seriously.

‘I urge any woman who has been affected by rape and needs help to talk to somebody they trust about it.’

In 2018, Katie said she was raped again during a horrifying carjacking in South Africa in 2018.

She recalled the terrifying ordeal which saw her held at gunpoint during filming for her Quest Red reality show, My Crazy Life with ITV.

Katie detailed the traumatic events that led her to reach breaking point, suffering a mental breakdown in the same year, and a failed suicide attempt where she ‘knocked herself out and had black eyes’ – after which she sought treatment for PTSD.

She told the Daily Mail: ‘The experience when I was filming with ITV in South Africa, we had no security, if we had security they would have been able to deal with the six guys that jumped us, held me at gunpoint and raped me.’

Katie also discussed the rape during an episode of Channel 4’s SAS: Celebrity Who Dares Wins in 2020, where she said: ‘Police said it was a miracle they didn’t kill us.’

During her Channel 4 show Trauma And Me, she revealed: ‘I hit severe depression a couple of years ago, depression on top of PTSD, I was suicidal, didn’t want to be here. I tried to kill myself.

‘I knocked myself out and had black eyes. I had bruises around my neck. I woke up. I didn’t want to be here.’