Katie Price admits she’s ‘giving up search’ for conman husband Lee Andrews and won’t let disappearance ‘ruin her life’
The former glamour model, 47, insisted she won’t let the disappearance of the self-styled businessman “ruin my life” after deleting a social media update on his situation.
Mum of five Katie has been seemingly left in despair over the fresh scandal surrounding her husband – who she married in January – which started a week ago.
Katie maintains her fear that he could have been kidnapped following a slew of confusing messages from him in which he suggested he’s been arrested and then taken to a “black site”.
However, on the latest episode of her The Katie Price Show podcast she said she is now “leaving it to the police”.
She said: “There’s nothing I can do, nothing more that I can say.
“And the police are dealing with it. I’m just leaving it to the police.
“I’m not gonna talk about it anymore, I’m just staying quiet because it’s getting ridiculous now, people just taking the p**s out of everything”.
Katie added: “The police are now handling it, the British police, British consulate, the foreign office, Interpol they’re on the case looking for Lee.
“All I can do is just get on with my life.
“I’ve got lots of exciting things coming up, and I’m just waiting for a call.
“What am I supposed to do, sit here and cry and do nothing, stay in bed?”
She also said: “For my own sanity, I am taking a step back”.
And in another telling comment she’s aware of the controversy around Lee’s whereabouts – after The Sun exclusively reported he had been on WhatsApp since his apparent disappearance – and titled her podcast episode: “My tentacles are up, I am not stupid”.
Proving her sights are firmly set on the future she said: “I’ve got so many exciting things come up, and I’m not letting this [the Lee situation] ruin anything.
“So I feel a lot better today, a lot, lot, better today because it’s not in my hands, and I’m not gonna make any comments anywhere anymore”.
Recently, there has been even more confusion as Lee appeared to become active on Facebook despite his disappearing act.
However, Katie went on to claim in an Instagram story that she was the one who was on Lee’s account as she had access to it.
The self-proclaimed businessman disappeared last week, with his wife Katie claiming he had been “kidnapped”.
Katie reported Lee, 43, as a missing person and went on to share her texts to him with The Sun in a bid to help track him down.
Speaking this week, she said: “None of his family have still heard anything from Lee.
“His dad’s out in Dubai, he has heard nothing and the rest of his family’s in the UK.
“And obviously me, we have reported him to the British embassy as a missing person. He’s been reported in Dubai as a missing person.
“The last time, you know, I heard from him, as I said before, was Wednesday. At 10 o’clock I’ve been reading his last few messages and then I’ve heard nothing. My anxiety levels are sky high.”
Some of the last messages Katie received from Lee were frantic as he initially claimed he had been arrested before later appearing to suggest he had been taken to a “black site” in the UAE.
He pleaded with Katie to contact the embassy to look for him.
He texted her: “It’s a black site, I love you, I sort it. I’m in the van… just being detained wtf.”
He added he’d been taken to a mysterious detention facility used to imprison individuals outside of the law by people who also had taken his second phone.
CID headquarters confirmed no one by Lee’s name has been arrested.
As part of her investigation exposing Lee as a conman, The Sun’s Clemmie Moodie reported that he is laying low in a run-down villa in Dubai and hasn’t been snatched as part of a nefarious plot.