Kamgelo Olaitan
Katie Price has opened up about how she was raped at gunpoint in South Africa in 2018.
The 44-year-old media personality and business woman talks about the details of her trauma in her new documentary Trauma and Me.
Katie was in SA to shoot scenes for her My Crazy Life reality show when her production crew was hijacked.
“We were travelling in a convoy to Swaziland from Johannesburg and we pulled over because my children needed to relieve themselves,” she told Daily Mail.
She said the group were confronted by a group of about six men who assaulted them while one of the men raped her. Katie said she thought she was going to die.
The men later robbed them of their belongings including money, iPads, laptops, and jewellery.
“I was filming with ITV and we had no security. If we had security they would have been able to deal with the six guys that jumped us and held me at gunpoint and raped me,” she said.
Katie says she had a mental breakdown because of the trauma and tried to take her own life. That’s when she checked herself into a rehab clinic.
“I have had my eyes opened about a lot of things,” she said.
“People who go to rehab are brave because they are facing their demons and whatever their problems are to make themselves a better person.”
She said in her documentary that when it comes to mental health it doesn’t matter how big or how small the situation may seem.
“If it’s big to someone then it’s big to them,” she said.
“It’s just different. Anything can happen.”
The suspects responsible for the assault were never arrested.
Image source: @Metro
