Katie Price’s son Harvey headbutts walls and smashes TVs in rage – but fans never see
EXCLUSIVE: Former glamour model Katie Price, 42, often shares pictures and videos of her sweet, caring and smart son Harvey, but there’s a side of him she never shares
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Katie Price has unveiled what life with son Harvey is really like.
The former glamour model, 42, says that she doesn’t really understand why people refer to her caring for Harvey as “difficult” because it’s just “normal” to her.
The 18-year-old, who has never had a relationship with his biological father Dwight Yorke, has a number of health conditions, including autism, partial blindness and Prader-Willi Syndrome, which means he never feels full.
Katie often features Harvey on her social media channels and in her YouTube videos, showing off the smart, funny and caring young man he has become.
But she’s admitted that there’s a side to him she never shows.
During an exclusive chat with Mirror Online, she said: “I don’t see it [as difficult].
“Because to me, I’m not saying it’s boring, but it’s just normal for me.
“It’s only when other people say, ‘I don’t know how you do it?’ And I’m like, ‘Really? What do you mean?'”
But there is a side of Harvey that people don’t see.
Katie added: “If you could see my house, people must think there are some real fights that go on in here – it’s not. it’s where Harvey headbutts the walls when there’s an advert on YouTube and it pisses him off, someone bangs a drawer or sneezes or he hasn’t got enough food on his plate, he will kick off.
“I mean, the amount of tellies I’ve gone through, they’re all outside, there’s about six of them and I’ve only been here since March.
“I’ve never shown this side where he kicks off, what it’s really like.”
Katie says her partner Carl Woods, who has struck up an incredibly close bond with Harvey, who is doing well after his recent health scares, and Katie’s four other children, is one of a handful of people who know the real Harvey.
She said: “Carl sees it when [Harvey] comes into the bedroom and stands there naked. He alway wants to walk around naked, everyone has seen Harvey naked who’s around me because he just doesn’t want to wear clothes.
“He’ll walk past the door in clothes and go to the toilet then come back naked.”
Carl, 31, gushed as he spoke about the amazing friendship he has with Harvey.
He said: “We got dinner and Kate was just drying her hair so I was sat at the table with Harvey, he said ‘Harvey, Carl best friends?’ I said, ‘Of course we are’.
“Kate came in a minute later and he said to her, ‘Mum, Harvey, Carl best friends’.”
Katie added: “He’s so cute. The thing is, Harvey’s been let down like I have, I mean majorly let down and you don’t do it to kids.
“I’m an adult, it’s not nice to let people down, but Harvey has seriously been let down by my serious relationships I’ve had.
“He doesn’t understand why the kids go to see their dads and he doesn’t. He doesn’t understand.”
Sadly, Katie has found out the hard way that not everyone is as accepting of Harvey.
Both she and her son have been targeted by vicious trolls who throw disgusting racial slurs and abuse at Harvey.
It sparked Katie to head to Parliament in a bid to make online trolling illegal with her proposed Harvey’s Law.
Katie has appeared in front of MPs to talk about the effect online abuse has on people.
She’s been trying to make it a law since March 2017, when she launched a petition to make online abuse a crime.
Katie said she’s still waiting to hear what will happen next, but is confident her hard work will pay off.
She said: “It will become a law but I think they’re just seeing, when will it become a criminal offence? And social media sites have to do more security because you can get people who abuse us who are private, don’t follow anyone and open these accounts up just to abuse.”
She added: “There’s a whole spectrum of what needs to be done. Everyone’s allowed their freedom of speech but people know if you’re going to call my son a ‘black n***er dribbling spastic’, that’s not nice is it?
“You know that’s not what you say so don’t say it, but unfortunately people still call him ‘fat, black n***er’.
“But when I say it out loud it’s more abusive, but when it’s written down people ignore it more, but it should be acted upon the same.
“Like when I went on This Morning with Phillip Schofield and I said ‘How would you like it if I called your son a n***er?’ He said, ‘Can you not use that word?’
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