What prompted Peter Andre's furious statement at ex-wife Katie Price

Peter Andreshocked fans when he released a brutal statement at ex-wife Katie Price after 'staying silent' for almost two decades. The Mysterious Girl singer, 52, took to his Instagram Stories this week to shed light on his tumultuous relationship with Katie after she made claims about their children's 'welfare'.

The singer shares Princess, 18, and Junior, 20, with the former glamour model but have been at loggerheads for years. After Katie slammed those producing Princess' debut reality series, where the teen was seen with her dad multiple times but not so much with Katie, she asked Peter to sit down to end their feud.

Peter had enough of her comments and took to his Stories to hit out at her. He said: "For sixteen years, I have stayed silent in the face of repeated lies from my ex-wife and her family, out of respect for my children and loved ones, but staying silent has been incredibly frustrating. That ends today."

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"The latest comments about my children's welfare and living arrangements compel me to set the record straight. For well-documented reasons, and for their safety, Junior and Princess came into my care in 2018 and remained with me until they reached adulthood.

"In 2019, the family courts issued a legally binding order to enforce this arrangement. I have never made this public before, out of respect for my children."

He continued: "In 2011 and 2015, publicly documented court cases, found my ex-wife had made false claims. She was ordered to pay substantial damages and legal costs, and to apologise, to me and my management. The same falsehoods are being repeated today.

"Unfortunately, there are many more lies and baseless accusations I have yet to address. Those will now be dealt with in the coming months."

Not long before his post, Katie urged him to have a sit-down chat with her about their kids. She said on her podcast, The Katie Price Show: "There's no reason why both parents just can't be there to support her. Now this isn't about me. I have to clarify this. I don't care that I'm not in Princess's show.

"I don't need to raise my profile by being on Princess's show, I do enough stuff. All what I want to do, is just whatever my daughter does, and it's the same with Junior, I don't care if I'm in the background, but I want to watch her do her photo shoots, I wanna watch her do her signings, because that's what I did.

"And my mom and you and Nan used to come along and support, and I'm proud of her. And I just wanna be there with her because I now I feel that I've missed out on so much. It's so not fair to bring Princess piggy in the middle. So I think it's about time all of us adults just sit down and talk about what their beef is with me and just get over it.

She added: "Life would be more at peace because I don't have a problem. I just think life would be a better place. Well, I'm not saying we all have to be best buddies, best friends, but come on. For the sake of the children, there's room for everyone to support your kids. Do you know what I mean?"

Sophie, Katie's sister, also urged her niece to 'put her foot down' and include the former glamour model in the TV show.

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