Post by shayne on Sept 3, 2006 11:27:28 GMT 8
OUT OF CONTROL...
By Matthew Acton & Rachel Spencer
These shocking pictures reveal the ugly truth about fallen pop star and lying cokehead Kerry Katona.
On the right she glares into the camera, eyes wild and reeling after yet another hit of mindbending cocaine.
Below is her hotel bedside table, littered with the kit of an illegal drug user: plastic bag of the lethal powder, Matalan store card for chopping it into lines, rolled-up £10 note for snorting, and a tell-tale trail of white dust.
Yet Kerry, twice Celebrity Mum of the Year and star of supermarket Iceland's cosy TV ads, has brazenly DENIED taking drugs since the News of the World exposed her secret in June, 2005.
"People make this stuff up," she claimed. "It's complete bullsh*t."
Now, with a lucrative book to promote, 25-year-old Kerry has done a swift U-turn, admitting drug abuse and blaming it on her 2004 split with husband Brian McFadden.
Mask
"Drugs and booze provided a mask to hide behind," she said."I lost the plot."
But we can reveal mum-of-two Kerry — now threee months pregnant with fiancé Mark Croft's baby — is STILL lying.
Pals of the former Atomic Kitten star insist she has:
ABUSED cocaine for seven years,
STASHED the stuff in her bra,
ESCAPED arrest by skin of her teeth, and is so
HOOKED she is in danger of killing herself.
These astonishing new revelations also discredit the guff spouted by Kerry's PR man Max Clifford last December when he declared:
"She does not take drugs and never has. It's totally untrue, total lies."
Sales rep Michelle Hunter has been a loyal friend to Kerry since they were both just three years old.
She was bridesmaid at the I'm A Celebrity victor's wedding and a rock when the marriage fell apart.
But she says Kerry's cocaine habit destroyed that friendship.
"The first time I saw Kerry take drugs was at a nightclub in 1999," said Michelle.
"That was ecstasy. Not long after that I witnessed her take cocaine for the first time in the bathroom at her mum's flat. She scooped it out of a plastic bag with a small coin and sniffed it. I think she offered me some but I said no."
Our d**ning photos opposite were taken on a hen party trip thrown by Kerry's former best friend and half-sister Joanne Goodier in May, 2005.
Trouble started on the coach from home in Warrington, Cheshire, to Newcastle upon Tyne. "The police pulled us over," said Michelle. "Kerry panicked, reached into her bra and pulled out her bag of cocaine.
"She flung it at me and said, ‘You've got to look after that for us.'
"It was like she had her career and didn't want to risk it but I didn't matter.
"The cops got on the coach and I was terrified. Kerry went to talk to them, explaining that we were on a hen do.
"Then she came back and I passed the bag over. She just said, ‘Thanks, mate.'
"That was it, no apology or anything. I was furious.
"It was only later that I realised just how out of order she'd been. That cocaine was worth about £200 and if I'd been caught I could have got 10 years.
"My two children would have been left on their own and my life would have been ruined. For what? Looking after a friend? But all Kerry cared about that night was getting out of it.
"I was with her all night and she was constantly in and out of the toilets.
"She made me wait outside the cubicle so she didn't get caught."
Michelle is just one of several girls who have sworn statements that they saw Kerry take cocaine that night.
One said she witnessed Kerry sniff three lines of cocaine off the bedside table in the Travelodge before they went clubbing AND five when she returned.
Pal Michelle fell out with Kerry last summer over the drugtaking and has not spoken to her since.
She insists she is telling all now in a desperate bid to shock Kerry into getting treatment. For Michelle fears Kerry is still taking cocaine. "It's all Kerry knows," she said.
Michelle admittted she worries for Kerry's daughters, three-year-old Lilly Sue and Molly, who's four.
"It's very sad," she added. "Kerry needs to take a long look at her life, stop lying to her fans and herself and sort herself out for the sake of her kids—or she'll end up dead.
"Kerry isn't just an occasional user of cocaine.
"She goes on long binges where she doesn't sleep for days and I'm seriously worried.
"She's killing herself with cocaine. If she carries on she'll be the next Paula Yates."
Store giant Iceland said it has no plans to dump Kerry from its ads. But a spokesman told us: "We constantly monitor customer feedback with regard to all our marketing activity and we will continue to do so."
WIDE EYED: Kerry on cocaine
ON DISPLAY: Cocaine next to bed
Kerry on hen night with Joanne
Worry for Kerry, pictured Saturday
BUST UP: Michelle
TRUTH: Our exclusive
Kerry with ex-husband Brian
By Matthew Acton & Rachel Spencer
These shocking pictures reveal the ugly truth about fallen pop star and lying cokehead Kerry Katona.
On the right she glares into the camera, eyes wild and reeling after yet another hit of mindbending cocaine.
Below is her hotel bedside table, littered with the kit of an illegal drug user: plastic bag of the lethal powder, Matalan store card for chopping it into lines, rolled-up £10 note for snorting, and a tell-tale trail of white dust.
Yet Kerry, twice Celebrity Mum of the Year and star of supermarket Iceland's cosy TV ads, has brazenly DENIED taking drugs since the News of the World exposed her secret in June, 2005.
"People make this stuff up," she claimed. "It's complete bullsh*t."
Now, with a lucrative book to promote, 25-year-old Kerry has done a swift U-turn, admitting drug abuse and blaming it on her 2004 split with husband Brian McFadden.
Mask
"Drugs and booze provided a mask to hide behind," she said."I lost the plot."
But we can reveal mum-of-two Kerry — now threee months pregnant with fiancé Mark Croft's baby — is STILL lying.
Pals of the former Atomic Kitten star insist she has:
ABUSED cocaine for seven years,
STASHED the stuff in her bra,
ESCAPED arrest by skin of her teeth, and is so
HOOKED she is in danger of killing herself.
These astonishing new revelations also discredit the guff spouted by Kerry's PR man Max Clifford last December when he declared:
"She does not take drugs and never has. It's totally untrue, total lies."
Sales rep Michelle Hunter has been a loyal friend to Kerry since they were both just three years old.
She was bridesmaid at the I'm A Celebrity victor's wedding and a rock when the marriage fell apart.
But she says Kerry's cocaine habit destroyed that friendship.
"The first time I saw Kerry take drugs was at a nightclub in 1999," said Michelle.
"That was ecstasy. Not long after that I witnessed her take cocaine for the first time in the bathroom at her mum's flat. She scooped it out of a plastic bag with a small coin and sniffed it. I think she offered me some but I said no."
Our d**ning photos opposite were taken on a hen party trip thrown by Kerry's former best friend and half-sister Joanne Goodier in May, 2005.
Trouble started on the coach from home in Warrington, Cheshire, to Newcastle upon Tyne. "The police pulled us over," said Michelle. "Kerry panicked, reached into her bra and pulled out her bag of cocaine.
"She flung it at me and said, ‘You've got to look after that for us.'
"It was like she had her career and didn't want to risk it but I didn't matter.
"The cops got on the coach and I was terrified. Kerry went to talk to them, explaining that we were on a hen do.
"Then she came back and I passed the bag over. She just said, ‘Thanks, mate.'
"That was it, no apology or anything. I was furious.
"It was only later that I realised just how out of order she'd been. That cocaine was worth about £200 and if I'd been caught I could have got 10 years.
"My two children would have been left on their own and my life would have been ruined. For what? Looking after a friend? But all Kerry cared about that night was getting out of it.
"I was with her all night and she was constantly in and out of the toilets.
"She made me wait outside the cubicle so she didn't get caught."
Michelle is just one of several girls who have sworn statements that they saw Kerry take cocaine that night.
One said she witnessed Kerry sniff three lines of cocaine off the bedside table in the Travelodge before they went clubbing AND five when she returned.
Pal Michelle fell out with Kerry last summer over the drugtaking and has not spoken to her since.
She insists she is telling all now in a desperate bid to shock Kerry into getting treatment. For Michelle fears Kerry is still taking cocaine. "It's all Kerry knows," she said.
Michelle admittted she worries for Kerry's daughters, three-year-old Lilly Sue and Molly, who's four.
"It's very sad," she added. "Kerry needs to take a long look at her life, stop lying to her fans and herself and sort herself out for the sake of her kids—or she'll end up dead.
"Kerry isn't just an occasional user of cocaine.
"She goes on long binges where she doesn't sleep for days and I'm seriously worried.
"She's killing herself with cocaine. If she carries on she'll be the next Paula Yates."
Store giant Iceland said it has no plans to dump Kerry from its ads. But a spokesman told us: "We constantly monitor customer feedback with regard to all our marketing activity and we will continue to do so."
WIDE EYED: Kerry on cocaine
ON DISPLAY: Cocaine next to bed
Kerry on hen night with Joanne
Worry for Kerry, pictured Saturday
BUST UP: Michelle
TRUTH: Our exclusive
Kerry with ex-husband Brian