Katie Price returns to court to continue evidence in ex-husband’s rape trial

Katie Price has arrived at court to continue giving evidence in her ex-husband’s rape trial.

The media personality began giving evidence behind a screen during Kieran Hayler’s trial at Lewes Crown Court on Monday.

Hayler, 39, is accused of three counts of rape and one count of sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in West Sussex in 2016.

Ms Price is expected to be cross-examined as a witness on Tuesday.

Katie Price arrives at Lewes Crown Court (Gareth Fuller/PA)

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On Monday, she told the court she was “really shocked” by the allegations.

Ms Price told jurors: “I was shocked… like really shocked. It was a different kettle of fish, it’s a child.”

She told the court she confronted her husband at the time, asking if he had “done stuff” with the teenage girl.

Asked by prosecutor Ryan Richter what his response was, Ms Price said: “I can’t remember his response but his response all the time was ‘no I hadn’t’.”

She said she did not speak to the girl about the allegations face to face, and was asked whether she asked her to report it to the police.

“I was going through it myself. I was having a breakdown at that point,” she said.

“I had to go in the Priory.”

Hayler denies the charges and suggests his ex-wife had “launched a campaign” against him when their marriage ended and the allegations form part of this, the court has heard.

He was married to Ms Price at the time of the allegations, before the couple’s relationship broke down in 2018 and they divorced in 2021.

The alleged victim is not part of Hayler or Ms Price’s extended families.