KATIE Price had a row with fiancé Carl Woods and stayed up all night drinking and taking drugs before crashing her car, it has been reported.
The former glamour model from Brighton appeared at Crawley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday following a crash on the B2135 near Partridge Green on Tuesday morning.
The 43-year-old pleaded guilty to drink driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.
Now, it has been reported that the reality TV star jumped behind the wheel after a fight with her fiance Carl Woods.
A source told The Sun: “Katie and Carl had a massive row and things escalated.
"She’s been under a lot of pressure over the past few weeks and it seems she just snapped. Katie went off the grid for eight hours as friends tried to track her down.
“It seems during that time she turned to booze and drugs."
Price appeared in the dock wearing a pink jumper before two magistrates.
After being confronted by police at the scene, Price was heard saying “I took drugs, I should not be driving, I admit it all”, the court heard.
A drugs wipe gave a positive reading for cocaine, prosecutor Debbie Jones said.
An image shared by police from the scene on Tuesday showed a car flipped on its side.
Officers responded to the crash at around 6.20am, where Price was arrested on suspicion of driving while above the legal limit for alcohol and drugs, and was taken to hospital.
Defence solicitor Joe Harrington said: “She has had a lot of personal problems recently.
“Currently she is in the process of bankruptcy proceedings so her house may be repossessed.
“So quite a lot going on in this lady’s life, a really difficult period,” he added.
Mr Harrington argued that the driving was a “one-off” incident.
He added: “As I understand it she had been drinking, she was lonely and she decided to go and see a friend who lived a relatively short distance away and that is when the incident happened.”
He asked magistrates to defer the sentencing for several weeks.
Appearing on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Monday, Price said she is banned from driving until the end of the year.
Discussing her disabled son Harvey, 19, she said: “Harvey’s in Cheltenham
“He keeps ringing me saying, ‘Mummy I miss you, I need kisses and cuddles’, so it is quite hard because obviously I don’t get my licence back until December, so I can’t just whizz in the car down there and it’s not close.”
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