Katie Price says she was sexually assaulted during horror carjacking incident

Katie Price has revealed she was sexually assaulted while being held at gunpoint during a terrifying carjacking incident while in South Africa with her children in April 2018.

The 41-year-old former glamour model has spoken of the horror ordeal where she thought she was “going to die” during an episode of Channel 4's reality show SAS: Celebrity Who Dares Wins this week.

And in a subsequent interview with The Sun she revealed she was groped during the incident, that also involved her kids Junior, 14, and 12-year-old Princess - who she has with ex-husband Peter Andre.

She told the publication she ended up at The Priory rehab clinic to treat her post traumatic stress disorder following the attack.

“The reason I went there was because I got held at gunpoint and sexually assaulted,” she said.

“It was like something from a horror film. This big man in an adidas hoody was shouting in my face, swearing and demanding I give him everything. And he was touching me down below.”

Shortly after the incident in 2018, Katie admitted she would have done anything to keep her children safe, even though she was in fear for her own life.

“We'd just got out of the car to have a wee - all of us,” she recalled in an interview with OK! magazine in June 2018. “Six guys pulled up with their guns and said ‘We're going to shoot and kill you’.

“I said [to the hijackers] 'You've got to kill me, you're not getting to my kids.'

“I thought I was going to die.”

The armed men stole stole gems, money, laptops and camera gear after forcing their way into a vehicle and Katie - who is also mum to Harvey, 16, with ex-boyfriend Dwight Yorke, and four-year-old Jett and Bunny, three, with estranged husband Kieran Hayler - was previously said to have told pals she felt "lucky" to have got away unscathed.

She reportedly said afterwards: “We are lucky to be alive, it could have been much worse."

Insiders previously told how the whole party were left "terrified" when they were targeted by the robbers because they initially had no idea what the men wanted from them.

A source said at the time: "The robbers seemed to be off their heads. They were screaming threats and ordering all the passengers not to move.

"Everyone in the car was terrified, because they had no idea if they were just being robbed for money, if the gang might try to kidnap them - or worse.

"One brave member of the team tried to stop them, but was hit in the face."

With additional reporting by Bang Showbiz.

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