Katie Price has stressed she is “not running” from her bankruptcy troubles after she failed to turn up to court.

An arrest warrant was issued for Price after she did not appear in court yesterday when she was due to be grilled over her finances by bankruptcy lawyers.

But the Brighton-born former glamour model has now taken to social media to share her side of the story – claiming she is away working on a documentary.

Sharing the statement on her Instagram page, Ms Price, 46, said: “Whilst I’m fully aware of the severity of my current personal financial situation with my ongoing bankruptcy, I am today shocked that whilst away working for a documentary on corrective surgeries that I should find myself yet again headline news.

“The media in my opinion once again are trying to cause continued humiliation to myself and family. There are far greater and more pressing issues going on around the world that are more important. And I’m sure people are bored of reading stories that are consistently misrepresented.

“I have and I am continuing to cooperate with the relevant people on matters to the best of my ability which will be addressed after my return from work.

“Despite consistent stories trying to humiliate me on my personal misfortunes I am neither embarrassed or ashamed. I own my situation and I am trying my best to work my way out of it and put matters right.

“I have to continue in my work in order to satisfy these bankruptcy orders which is all I am trying to do right now.

“I am however not running from matters and will continue to take matters with great seriousness.”

Issuing the arrest warrant, Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Catherine Burton said Ms Price had received “very clear warnings” that she must attend the hearing on Tuesday.

The judge dismissed her reason for not being at the hearing as “irrelevant”.

Ms Price was declared bankrupt first in 2019 and again in March of this year. Her second bankruptcy relates to a £750,000 tax bill from HMRC.

At a hearing in February, Price was ordered to pay 40 per cent of her monthly income from the adult entertainment website OnlyFans to the trustee for the next three years, in relation to her first bankruptcy.

In October last year, Price said she was “fed up” with being threatened with legal action and would go to prison to be “done with it all”.

Last month, photographs showed Price’s Mucky Mansion in Dial Post, near Horsham, being repossessed by bailiffs.

Price failed to keep up with mortgage repayments for the property, which is currently valued at £2.5 million.

She has moved into a new home in Sussex, near Judy Parfitt who plays Sister Monica Joan in BBC's Call the Midwife.