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Reason Katie Price FINALLY agreed to truce with Peter Andre after 17 years despite rejecting his olive branch for months
IT’S rumbled on for 17 long years, but the war between Katie Price and Peter Andre is finally over.
However, yesterday’s bombshell statement, in which the pair vowed to stop badmouthing one another after a string of bitter public spats, was a hard-won truce, according to insiders.
The Sun was told Katie has spent months refusing to agree to Peter’s desperate attempts to make peace.
Friends claim their children, Junior, 20, and Princess, 18, are the reason she eventually decided to accept her ex-husband’s olive branch.
A source said: “Pete’s team have been begging Katie to end this for good for months.
“As far back as November, they were calling Katie and her family to try and end the row.
“She was resolute she wouldn’t make peace with him.
“It was the children who made her realise she needed to draw a line in the sand.
“Katie has done this for them.”
The former couple’s joint statement, which was shared on social media, said: “Katie Price and Peter Andre have decided to close the door on the past and move forward into a new chapter with positivity and respect.
“We are both focused on creating a calm and supportive environment for our children.
“We have reached a mutual agreement, both legally and personally, confirming that neither of us will speak negatively about the other going forward.
“This decision reflects a shared commitment to our family and stability.
“We want to stand united for our children. We are hoping this is a start of a positive relationship.
Katie Price and Peter Andre have decided to close the door on the past and move forward into a new chapter with positivity and respect
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“We ask for understanding and support from both the media and the public as we move ahead.”
Katie, 47, and Peter, 52, tied the knot in 2005 after meeting in the Australian jungle on the previous year’s I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here!
But their messy divorce just four years later left the pair struggling to ever see eye-to-eye.
Peter, who is now remarried to Emily MacDonagh, a practicing NHS doctor with whom he shares three children, chose not to speak out against Katie.
She, however regularly, pummelled him in public.
But it was events late last summer that culminated in an explosion of tensions between them.
Edited clips from their Noughties ITV reality show, Katie & Peter, started to go viral on TikTok, in which he hurled insults at the former glamour model.
The Sun understands it left Peter highly distressed, with a source explaining: “The footage was so misleading.
“It was out of context and painted him in a bad light. It was awful because it created a false narrative.”
Those close to Katie, however, said she felt “vindicated” that the videos were being shared publicly again.
Unfortunately, there are many more lies and baseless accusations I have yet to address
Peter Andre
Amid the chaos, Katie went on to detonate a bomb — and publicly berated Peter, blaming him and his management team for her being cut out of her daughter’s ITV reality TV series, The Princess Diaries.
Speaking on her podcast last August, Katie alleged Peter’s management team, The Can Group — which used to represent her and had also signed Princess to their books — was coming between her and the teen.
Katie said of Peter’s manager: “I’ve always said, over my dead body would I ever want her to manage my kids because she doesn’t like me, and Pete and me don’t talk.
“I am very, very, very upset that Princess has signed with them when she was 16.
The Statement
Katie Price and Peter Andre have decided to close the door on the past and move forward into a new chapter with positivity and respect.
We are both focused on creating a calm and supportive environment for our children.
We have reached a mutual agreement, both legally and personally confirming that neither of us will speak negatively about the other going forward.
This decision reflects a shared commitment to our family and stability.
We want to stand united for our children. We are hoping this is a start of a positive relationship.
We ask for understanding and support from both the media and the public as we move ahead
“I wasn’t asked to look at any contracts, so I don’t know what Princess has signed because it’s all to do with that side.”
She added: “I want the best for Junior and Princess, always, and I will never get in the way of it.
“But what hurts my feelings — and it does upset me — is when your kids grow up, you go to their assemblies, you go to their Christmas things.
“You go to their awards, you know, you go to their football matches or their gymnastics, you’re involved in everything they do. And knowing that what my career has been, Princess is taking that same path — trying to do the same as what I’ve done — which I absolutely love and adore of Princess, but I had not been allowed to go on any photoshoot.
‘Hugely painful’
“No signings or Superdrug openings or anything like that. Why? Because I’m not allowed and I’m not welcome.”
The Can Group said at the time they had “never stopped anyone seeing their families”.
But Katie’s words evoked such fury in Peter that, days later, he hit back with a measured but metaphorical bomb, blowing wide open their feud which had, largely, played out behind closed doors for years.
Multiple attempts to draw a line in the sand were made, but Katie just pied them all off
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In a statement, he said: “For sixteen years, I have stayed silent in the face of repeated lies from my ex-wife and her family, out of respect for my children and loved ones.
“But staying silent has been incredibly frustrating. That ends today. The latest comments about my children’s welfare and living arrangements compel me to set the record straight.
“For well-documented reasons, and for their safety, Junior and Princess came into my care in 2018 and remained with me until they reached adulthood.
“In 2019, the family courts issued a legally-binding order to enforce this arrangement. I have never made this public before, out of respect for my children.
“In 2011 and 2015, publicly documented court cases found my ex-wife had made false claims. She was ordered to pay substantial damages and legal costs, and to apologise to me and my management.
“The same falsehoods are being repeated today.
“Unfortunately, there are many more lies and baseless accusations I have yet to address.
“Those will now be dealt with in the coming months.”
As their public war of words played out, insiders said Peter’s team wanted to push for peace for the sake of their children.
Katie however, would not play ball.
A source added: “Multiple attempts to draw a line in the sand were made, but Katie just pied them all off.
“They asked her to sign off on a statement last year and she point-blank refused to be a part of it. It was hugely painful for Peter. He just wants what is best for his children.
“He had to speak out publicly and he did it in a way which was factual and honest.
“In 17 years, he never wanted to be drawn into a public row and he wanted it to be resolved.”
‘Incredibly headstrong’
Recent events in Katie’s life have made her re-think, friends close to her confirmed.
Her whirlwind wedding at the end of January to Dubai-based Lee Andrews, a “Walter Mitty”-type businessman, has caused a huge amount of upheaval for her family.
Those close to Katie said they had hoped she would end their union after learning of the allegations against Andrews by his former partners in this newspaper.
These included claims by businesswoman Crystal Janke, who accused Andrews of taking £123,000 from her as an investment, but alleged he has failed to pay her any money back.
Another ex, Alana Percival, told Katie to “run for the hills” after he proposed to the former glamour model in the same place and in the same way as he had popped the question to her weeks earlier.
Alana said: “Lee is a liar, a narcissist and I think he’s a manipulator.
Katie’s life has always been incredibly hectic
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“Once I tried to leave him, he told me had a heart condition and was living on borrowed time.
“Lee doesn’t know what’s fact and what’s fiction. It’s worrying, because I think he believes his own lies.”
Andrews denied all the claims made against him, and Katie has sided with him — despite warnings from those close to her.
She returned to the UK following their quickie wedding in Dubai and, pals said, spent time with both Junior and Princess.
It was apparently this time alone with the children, as well as the chance to consider her future, that made her agree to the deal with Peter.
A source said: “Katie is incredibly headstrong, but she loves her children to their bones.
“Everything that happened with Lee was a whirlwind for Princess and Junior, and add that on to everything happening behind the scenes with Peter and it was a mess. Making peace with Pete, even if just for the children, was the right thing to do.”
Katie’s decision to bury the hatchet has, according to pals, given her family some cause to celebrate.
Their concerns now turn back to Andrews — and Katie’s relationship with him.
A source said: “Katie’s life has always been incredibly hectic.
“She makes decisions with her heart on her sleeve.
“Katie has assured her family they have nothing to worry about. But her returning to Dubai has given them a sense of dread.
“And they have every right to be concerned.”