Nanny reveals star tried to make HER take drugs
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By Niki Waldegrave
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COCAINE abuse and binge drinking have left TV star Kerry Katona spiralling out of control and heading for destruction, her former nanny revealed last night.
Long-time friend Debbie Price told us the troubled ex-Atomic Kitten singer—who only came out of rehab four months ago—is already back on the booze big time.
After working for Kerry for almost a year, Debbie quit four weeks ago in a row over the way the two times Celebrity Mum of the Year treats her children in real life. And in an exclusive interview she described how her former boss:
SNORTED cocaine in front of her mother Sue,
TRIED to enlist the nanny into her illegal drugs session,
FARMED out her daughters— four-year-old Molly and two-year-old Lilly—to friends and family while she hit the town, and
PARTIED so much it led to this week's big split with lover Dave Cunningham.
And despite Kerry nightly flaunting herself on TV as the great family-loving girl in a series of ‘Mum's gone to Iceland!' ads, Debbie last night insisted: "She's no mother of the year!
"When she came out of rehab at the Cottonwood Clinic in Arizona she seemed to be doing better. But about eight weeks ago she changed and became very withdrawn.
"She'd get so defensive. Then she'd be agg ressive. And she started drinking again.
"One night she stayed out and no one knew where she was. It was just like when she was doing the cocaine."
In June the News of the World exclusively revealed 25-year-old I'm A Celebrity winner Kerry's secret Class A drug habit and she immediately checked into the Cottonwood for six weeks.
And last night Debbie, who began working for Kerry in the wake of her traumatic split from husband Brian McFadden, recalled the afternoon her new boss tried to tempt her with lines of cocaine.
"I was totally disgusted," she said. "Her mum was there, too. The drug was laid out on a tray in Kerry's house and she said to me, ‘Go on! Go on! Take it!'
"I'm totally anti-drugs and told her it wasn't big or clever.
"But I saw her crouched over the tray, and I heard her snort it.
"I couldn't believe she wanted me to do it, too—even though she knew I'd be picking her girls up from school a few hours later.
"I found it impossible to tell if Kerry was on cocaine.
"But it was always obvious when she'd been drinking. She'd go out and get absolutely slaughtered about three times a week.
"She'd drink anything that was going—wine, spirits, shots, beer— and not remember anything next day. She'd just sleep on the floor, sofa or wherever she landed.
"Those nights I'd look after the girls at my place. And on Fridays I'd always have Lilly while Molly would go to her nan's.
"On half a dozen occasions I stayed at Kerry's when she went out. I remember the one time when she came back p****d as a fart, all over the place and talking gibberish.
"She went in the kitchen and just slumped on the floor till morning. Now Kerry's acting just like she was back then."
Debbie, 41—who has three children and three grandchildren of her own and lives near the Katona clan in Warrington, Cheshire—says Kerry's behaviour has grown increasingly erratic since she came back from a make-or-break Spanish holiday with lover Dave, pictured together left, last month.
At the time of their stay in Marbella it was reported Kerry had split with him after he allegedly hit her in the face and she fell to the ground unconscious.
But Debbie insisted: "Kerry told me she was just pretending to be knocked out to wind Dave up.
"I'm told she was drinking every night and it was just a drunken argument that got out of hand."
