Price 'had miscarriage weeks before Andre split'

Katie Price has revealed she suffered a miscarriage less than a month before her split from husband Peter Andre.

In a tearful TV interview, the glamour model-turned-author told how she lost the baby 10 weeks into her pregnancy but continued to run the London Marathon a week later because she did not want to let down sponsors.

Price, aka Jordan, said in the programme to be screened on ITV1 tomorrow she never dreamed she would ever divorce Andre and denied a fling with dressage trainer Andrew Gould.

Price said she lost the child while she and Andre filmed in the US.

“I was pregnant in America and the baby died,” she told presenter Piers Morgan in her first major interview since her separation.

The miscarriage only became clear on her return during a routine scan. “(The doctor) was poking the thing around on my belly and it was moving, and he said that he can’t see a heartbeat but he said: ’Let me check, so let me do some bloods (blood tests).’

“So he done some bloods and three days later he called me up and said: ’I think it’s the HGC (hormone) level is still high which means that it could still be alive’.”

The mum of three added: “At this point I knew I had to do the marathon in a week’s time, so my head was going like this because I thought: ’I’ve got to do the marathon, I can’t let people down, I’ve trained all this time, I’ve got all this money, what am I going to do, can I still run it?’

She had further tests which indicated the foetus was still developing and she was asked to return to hospital to check for heartbeat.

“I went in thinking: ’He’s going to be great, he’s going to see a heartbeat.’ And it was on the screen and you know they poke the thing around, he said: ’No it’s, it’s died, it’s gone.’

“I said: ’Well, what am I going to do?’ I said: ’You know, I’ve got the marathon,’ as well, because all this was going on in my head. And he said: ’Well, we can terminate it tonight.’ So I had to be there, I had to be put to sleep and have it terminated.”

On Katie Price Exclusive – With Piers Morgan to be screened at 9pm tomorrow, Price said she didn’t want to have the scan in the US because she was being followed by paparazzi and “I didn’t want them to see me go in to have a scan.”

The miscarriage left her in turmoil because she was unsure about whether to run the marathon for which she had been training with Andre.

“It’s dangerous to run when you’re bleeding that much. You can get a blood clot and I thought ’I can’t let anyone down’. So, even the day of the marathon I’m running along, I keep going to the toilet because I keep checking to see if I’m bleeding and stuff. And then obviously my knee goes and I’m thinking of Harvey (her eldest son, whose father is Dwight Yorke). I’m trying to keep myself together, not to cry. I just wanted to say to people, ’Just leave me alone, I’ve, I’ve just lost a baby, I’m bleeding, I’m trying to run, I’m trying my best,’ but I can’t say it because, you know, it’s private.”

Although the couple were “bickering”, she said she was happy they were having another child. The pair split two weeks after the race.

“Emotionally for any woman, whether you’re in the media or not, to have a baby died, run the marathon, which is also a big thing on your body, and then your husband wants a divorce, split up. That’s a lot for someone to take in.”

Following the separation, keen horsewoman Price was criticised for her drunken partying in Ibiza and her apparent close friendship with trainer Gould. She said Andre began to imagine she had formed a new relationship because she returned home in high spirits after going out on her horse.

“Pete had it in his head that I fancied him (Gould), he fancied me maybe because, I don’t know, Andrew’s half-decent looking, he’s not an ugly guy. I would get up early, go to the horse, come back, be in a really good mood, he would look at it as if Andrew’s making me in a good mood, not seeing it that I’ve been to the horse, my release, I’ve enjoyed riding.

“So it grew and grew in his head until he just ended up thinking something was going on, that I fancied Andrew, he fancied me.”

Price said “nothing, absolutely nothing ever” went on between her and Gould.

She was unrepentant about being photographed drunk in skimpy outfits in Ibiza, but said she was a “nightmare” and “exhibitionist” when drunk.

“When I have a drink I want to take my clothes off ... it is a nightmare. At the time I’m loving it. This is the thing, people have got to understand ... I don’t smoke, I don’t take drugs, but occasionally I’m a binge drinker, the worst, one of the worst cases. But the thing is, after one glass ... I start changing, I don’t know why, I’m an exhibitionist, I am a nightmare.”

She continued: “I was always going to Ibiza ... I was there filming, I was doing my calendar shoot and I went out about three nights, the other nights I went for dinner.

“What is wrong with that? What do you go to Ibiza for? To sit there and drink scones and tea in the room? Because that’s certainly what I wasn’t going to do. I’m a single girl, I’m with my mates and so what if I went out? And guess what, I wanted to let my hair down.”

Price said she had been “obsessed” with Andre, whom she met while filming ITV1’s 'I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!' in 2004: “I was so in love with him, it was driving me nuts.”

She added: “I really believed I would be with him forever. I didn’t get married to divorce, ever. Never.”

Despite her difficulties in the past months, Price said she was coping.

“I’m actually in a really good place, I’m really happy, I’m really focused, I’m feeling really strong and obviously I’ve had to deal with a lot but yeah I’m doing really well,” she said.

“I am not hurting, I am being the real me. The real me that I should have been like when I was with Pete, then no problems would have started.

“I’m going to say to people, and even when I next find a guy, that you’ve just got to be yourself. You can’t just change someone and you’ve just got to be yourself – you really have got to be yourself.”

:: Katie Price Exclusive – With Piers Morgan will be screened by ITV1 at 9pm on Saturday July 11.