Kerry Katona: I'll lose my kids

Coke-head celeb's world is in ruins after drug video shame

MONEY SPINNER: Kerry arranged for topless shots to be taken on Tenerife
MONEY SPINNER: Kerry arranged for topless shots to be taken on Tenerife
HEIDI HIGH: Kerry plays mum for camera
HEIDI HIGH: Kerry plays mum for camera
COOLING OFF: Sunburnt Molly hits hotel pool
COOLING OFF: Sunburnt Molly hits hotel pool
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By Jane Atkinson, 23/08/2009

SHAMED Kerry Katona was back bingeing on MORE cocaine within minutes of discovering the News of the World was exposing her lies in our shock snorting video.

Realising her ludicrous denials would no longer wash, the reality TV star sniffed up line after line of the Class A drug and wept: "I've lost everything. I'm going to lose my kids - the lot!"

Telling how the distraught 28-year-old mum-of-four made straight for her coke stash, our inside source said: "It's unbelievable, but she was still taking cocaine to try to numb the pain, even after she was rumbled. All she wanted to do was get completely out of her mind.

"She was crying and saying she was going to lose her advert contract with Iceland and was terrified her ex, Brian McFadden, would get custody of their daughters Molly and Lilly-Sue.

WATCH KERRY KATONA DRUGS VIDEO

"And she kept repeating how social services would take away her youngest two, Heidi and Max. But never, at any stage, did she say she was actually going to DO something about her problem and STOP taking the cocaine.

"It was the opposite, she was just wanting to get more and more drugs to get wasted. She was up all night Saturday (after the News of the World told her about the video) and couldn't string a sentence together by Sunday lunchtime, she was a total mess.

"And her husband Mark kept whining over and over, 'We've lost the f***ing lot, Kez!' And he was taking cocaine, too. He's no better than her."

Yesterday Kerry admitted publicly to her fears of losing her kids and confessed: "I've let my children down. I'm so sorry and so ashamed. I know I let everyone down - my fans, my family and people I work with."

She tried to write off her latest cocaine shame as "a moment of weakness" brought on by Mark romping with strippers in Majorca. "I did it because I was very unhappy at the time and thought it might make me feel better about myself," she added.

Kerry was speaking on her return from Tenerife - where she fled after our story. She had planned the trip with two paparazzi pals to set up pictures of her romping with another man - paying Mark back for groping strippers in a Majorca nightclub.

But she quickly realised the trip would help her sidestep Cheshire drugs cops and social services who were all eager to quiz her.

Bankrupt Kerry changed her mock photo-shoot plans so her mates would take some money-spinning topless shots PLUS "happy family" good- parent snaps of her with the three eldest kids - Molly, seven, Lilly-Sue, six, and Heidi, two. Mark was invited along at the last minute.

But by the time they flew back to Manchester Airport on Friday night the "united front" plan was in tatters after a string of screaming rows.

Now cops and social workers are expected to come knocking at Kerry's door in Wilmslow, Cheshire, tomorrow. The play-acting started last Tuesday morning when Mark flew out to join Kerry with his seven-year-old daughter Keeley from a previous relationship. Youngest child Max, one, stayed home with the nanny.

Kerry had already checked into the £185-a-night Dream Gran Tacande Hotel, with a girl friend and the paparazzi in adjoining rooms. She met Mark and Keeley at the airport and carefully posed pictures of her sobbing on his knee were taken.

The truth about Kerry and cocaine - by stepsister Pat Ferrier

Our source said: "Kerry had her engagement and wedding ring back on her finger but it was clear they're not happy. They barely spoke to each other out there and. Kerry barely spent any time with the children, unless a camera was turned on her.

"For the majority of the trip to the Canaries, Kerry acted like a shocking parent. She even sent the kids to have dinner with the photographers while she sat in her room. You'd think after what she's done, and the possibility her kids could be taken from her, that she'd want to spend every precious moment she could with them."

At 11pm on Tuesday fellow guests could hear Kerry and Mark screaming at each other from their second floor bedroom. Our source said: "I heard Kerry shouting at Heidi to 'shut up' then she and Mark were rowing so loudly people in the restaurant downstairs could hear them."

On Wednesday morning Kerry and Mark didn't even surface to take the children to breakfast.

Our source added: "While Kerry posed on the beach for tacky pictures poor Molly was crying by the pool because she was getting so sunburnt."

That evening there was more shouting with Kerry bawling at the kids: "What's wrong with you? You're on holiday, you should be having a good time!" Finally on Wednesday night Kerry, Mark and the children ate together - just long enough for the photographers to take some shots.

Kerry walked out of the restaurant 20 minutes before everybody else and stormed back to the hotel. Our source said: "She looked furious. She took Molly with her. I think they stopped off at the pharmacy to finally get some cream for the poor child.

"Back at the hotel Kerry and Mark had another screaming match. About 10pm they all emerged to go to a magic show in the hotel. Kerry looked bored out of her mind, yawning and putting her head on the table. She and Mark didn't utter a word to each other.

"The only time they showed any affection was when they had their picture taken. Next morning at the pool Molly did at last have lots of cream put on her skin, and later they put Mark's big T-shirt on her to protect her.

SMILES APART: Kerry cheers up for once but hubby Mark keeps his distance and stays glum in the hotel bar
SMILES APART: Kerry cheers up for once but hubby Mark keeps his distance and stays glum in the hotel bar

"On Thursday night Kerry went to the hotel entertainment show with the kids again. But she and Mark kept nipping back to the room, and then she'd return sniffing and wiping her nose.

"That night they actually looked like they were genuinely having a good time, drinking pints and clapping along to the music - until Kerry went berserk because another guest took a picture of her She immediately sent over her friends to threaten the people and demand their cameras. She was desperate to carefully control what people could see of her on holiday, trying to portray a squeaky clean image with her pap photos. She didn't want to be seen drinking and looking wasted."

After flying home to Britain on Friday, Kerry's top priority was said to be finding out who gave us the video. She and Mark spent hours compiling a list of suspects.

Our source said: "It comes to something when you need to draw up lists of people in your home and could have seen you taking cocaine."

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My god, give the girl a break. She needs help, maybe if people quit ripping into her and offered a little help and support. she'd be able to sort herself out. To all those family members, friends and that slime ball loser of a husband, shame on you!

By Sarah.. Posted September 3 2009 at 1:32 AM.

Kerry is fast tracking to disaster .

By Susan.. Posted August 29 2009 at 2:40 PM.

im amazed at how quicly kerry's life fall after the break up with brian, before then she was actually voted best celebrity mum but ever since the break up her life just went straight down the hill

By nancy.. Posted August 29 2009 at 1:28 PM.

Where in the world is BRIAN???

By puii.. Posted August 29 2009 at 4:12 AM.

I hope she can get the help she so needs. She is an addict.
People slag her off all the time whilst dad Brian lives a beautiful life at the other side of the world without a care in the world.
She has made some terrible choices in her life and needs the help of her friends and family, the same people who seem to constantly sell her out.
Lets give her a break and offer her the support she so needs.

By Alison.. Posted August 28 2009 at 9:37 AM.

I can't stand this woman. What a disgrace if that was anyone else her children would have been taken away a long time ago! I hope that she loses everything, she has blamed her bipolar for her behaviour for years which is so disrespectful to people who actually have the disease.
I don't know what annoys me more, the fact that she is so viual or the fact that in 3 months time she'll have done a small stint in rehad then we'll all have to endure her on the front of OK and watch her on THIS MORNING telling us all about how hard her life has been and that she is sorry and all this will prob end up making her shed loads of money... there's just no justice in the world!

By Tracey.. Posted August 28 2009 at 7:47 AM.

I'm sure kerry will get her head together one day.Shame about her boobs though, why do women think their boobs look better with scars on them, they must be mad its not like they look any better at all. Bigger or smaller who cares but scars well thats a turn off.

By Steve.. Posted August 28 2009 at 12:27 AM.

Well she deserves to loose her children and for their
sake she should! was she thinking of her kids while
shoving that ---- up her nose i dought it, too busy
thinking of her own seedy pleasure, well she,s lost
her home,cars,money,family, all for a snort, she is
sick not ill SICK

By J.LEHAN.. Posted August 27 2009 at 9:25 PM.

Well I guess you'll stop at your own pace. Or maybe when a tooth is decaying earlier then it should be. lol holla

By Zena.. Posted August 27 2009 at 8:42 PM.

what a sell out....is she not ur sister???

By Dee.. Posted August 27 2009 at 1:35 PM.

Only you Kerry can turn your life around.Drinking and taking drugs are absolutely no good for you.If you really want the children to be with you, then you must pick yourself up,dust yourself down and start all over again.If you don't you will just go on a downward spiral.You are an attractive woman Kerry and could easily reform yourself. You also must decide if you really want to be with Mark for the rest of your life. I think you could do a lot better.Good Luck it is in your own hands.

By Val.. Posted August 26 2009 at 4:10 PM.

why do people give her the time of day she clearly out of control if i was brian i would have done something by now there is no way i have my kids a round a man like mark or a coke head like kerry why is brian being so slow in doing anything why are social services slow in taking action after so many high profile cock up's social sevices are not doing there job as for the police a caution what a joke it is

By dale alcock.. Posted August 25 2009 at 7:15 PM.

No sympathy!
Selfish selfish selfish woman! she doesn't deserve children

Slurring her words on this morning, medication, my backside, what a lier! total mess of a woman!


Admit you've got a problem and stop making excuses! Get help, otherwise its a one way ticket to the gutter!

By H J K.. Posted August 25 2009 at 4:58 PM.

No sympathey for her whatsoever. She's had plenty of time and chances to get her act together and she's done nothing except keep saying sorry and blubbing. She deserves everything she gets.

By Lorna .. Posted August 24 2009 at 10:24 PM.

Shame on u Bryan!! wat the hell are u thinking the other side of the world with ur pretty girlfriend living a lovely life, and your kids living with this sort of thing, if u ask me your no better than Kerry them kids dont seem to have anyone to look out for them and put them 1st, i'm a fan of you bryan liked westlife and you always seemed normal i kno its hard to bring up two kids when ur not used to having kids the whole time but someone needs to put these children before drugs or a girlfriend the other side of the world. i dont think you should have moved so far away from them in the first place, Delta had no children why cudnt she make the commitment to make the move so u cud be closer to your kids. all i can say is god help them kids

By linda.. Posted August 24 2009 at 6:43 PM.

brian mcfaden is as bad as her neither of them care in my opinion, if he did them girls would of been away from that vile low life ages ago! at the end of the day her addiction will always be her main priority in her life, no-one else not even her children! shame on you kerry

By danielle.. Posted August 24 2009 at 6:22 PM.

kerry u need help not gna be easy but ur not da only celb onit so people need 2 stop jugen and give u the help and support u need

By j o .. Posted August 24 2009 at 5:28 PM.

At least poor Molly and Lilly-Sue can go with their father and escape the misery that they are in now. What about the youngest two, Heidi and Max? Poor poor little innocents, what did they do to deserve this. Hopefully they will be taken to live a safe and happy life too. After all how can Kerry say "mums go to Iceland"? She is no mother, being a Mum is about loving and putting your children first not the way she treats those poor children in any case they are always with a string of nanny's. Very sad, poor little mites.

By Nina.. Posted August 24 2009 at 4:08 PM.

Please Brian, take your children out of this womans house. They deserve so much better.

By lynn instance.. Posted August 24 2009 at 1:55 PM.

brian sort this out, you have two children living in that hole, your girls are at risk, get them out fast. social services stop dragging your heels like you do when kids are at risk, dont wait for it to happen before you get your arse into gear and we end up reading about another failure to kids in peril.

By sue.. Posted August 24 2009 at 10:35 AM.

KERRY NEEDS TO GET A GRIP, OK SO SHE HAD A BAD CHILHOOD WHY WOULD SHE WANT TO PUT HER KIDS THROUGH THE SAME THING. A LEAST SHE DID GET A CHANCE TO TURN HER LIFE AROUND AND SHE JUST BLEW IT SHE IS FULL OF SELF PITY THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO HAD A MUTCH WORSE UP BRINGIN THAN HER, KERRY FOR GODS SAKE THINK OF WHAT YOU HAVE FOUR LOVLEY CHILDREN WHAT MORE REASON DO YOU NEED

By MARIE MONKS.. Posted August 24 2009 at 12:47 AM.

and where is Brian Mcfadden in all this? why doesnt he get his two daughters out of that hell-hole? having been married to a cocaine addict my only priority was to get my children out of that situation and ive never looked back... Kerry Katona is a disgrace and the only people suffering are the innocent children, she's an adult who has chosen drugs, those kids shouldnt have to suffer because of her weakness....

By Mary.. Posted August 23 2009 at 11:59 PM.

is it me or does the stepsister look like paul mccartney?

By mike.. Posted August 23 2009 at 5:23 PM.

Take responsibility, stop playing the victim and be honest. Its so insulting that she continues to lie to the public who have afforded her the luxuries she has become so accustomed to. She took the line in a moment of madness due to the stress of her relationship?? A journalist went into her en suite - put the powder out and persuaded her to have a line?? OH PURRRLEASE KERRY. I would have miuch more respect for you if you were honest and admitted to being an addict and was willing to do something about it. Them poor children. Mark needs to go.

By Tommycorncorn.. Posted August 23 2009 at 3:42 PM.

Kerry I am probably in the minority but I believe you can turn your life around. If you continue to lie and blame others you are only going one place and that is down. The public are not stupid nor are the police or social services. You are fooling nobody but yourself. You owe it to your kids to give them the mother and life that you never had. Come clean now and admit you are an addict and you will get the help you need. Only then can you start to recover. You are going to lose what little support you have if you continue lying and denying you are an addict. Some people do want to see you recover and, your kids having a happy life with you.

By sarah j.. Posted August 23 2009 at 12:56 PM.

where is she getting the money to jaunt of on holiday all the time,she is a waste of space,unfit to be a mother poor kids, you would think with her up bringing she would do better for her kids and for him what does anyone see in him he is pot ugly no personality no nothing get rid of the two of them

By kate smith.. Posted August 23 2009 at 12:35 PM.

I think its awful for the poor children, Brian, get over here and take your children before something serious happens to them!

Shame on Kerry, celeb mum of the year seems like such a joke. Lets hope social services and the police come and do something before its too late for the most important people - her children! Kerry & Mark, you can ruin your lives, nobody really cares, but dont drag the children down with you!

By Sianie.. Posted August 23 2009 at 11:54 AM.

well i have just read all the so called interviews!!and amongst all of the prepared rubbish she has spouted not once has she admitted that she is an addict! she is still denying it and blaming everyone else! until she admits she is a drug addict and alchoholic!! and she has reached rock bottom because of her behaviour, she will never start her recovery and her children will suffer constantly at her own hands.

By Maria.. Posted August 23 2009 at 11:00 AM.

Always someone else's fault hey Kerry, Brian needs to get his kids away from you - why dont u take a leaf out of Daniella Westbrooks page and get yourself sorted out. Look at her now!

By wendy.. Posted August 23 2009 at 10:59 AM.

i use 2 feel sorry 4 kerry coz i went school with mark n he was a idot then ,nothin has changed,n kerry shud hav the kids taken off her, if that was any1 else there wouldnt b any messin 8bt ,social services wud of been there n gone with the kids,mark shud all so b charged with neglect n drug use he shud not get away with it,he has sat n watched kerry sink lower n lower,wot kind of husband n father r u.ur pathetic,

By lisa taylor.. Posted August 23 2009 at 10:31 AM.

Sorry sorry sorry thats all we hear for her. She will never sort herself out Molly and Lily Sue should be with their dad. She is no mother she is a waste of space

By Denise.. Posted August 23 2009 at 10:28 AM.

Kerry.
Why don't you just grow up and start looking at your life like an adult instead of a junky. You keep saying, they WILL take my kids away. So! don't let them, knock the drugs on the head, it's that simple. GET HELP. Or is this the way you run and hide from your problems.

I have a great life, I have NEVER touched drugs. Kerry, it's a short fix, just like alchohol, but your problems are still there the next day, but in your case, getting worse. So really there is only one answer. You know what the answer is, so proove to your children that you really are a good mother instead of a waister, because this seems to be the general veiw of the UK public right now.

By John.. Posted August 23 2009 at 9:45 AM.

She deserves to lose her children, I have no sympathy for her. She should put her kid's first not snorting coke first.
She's been offered help many times, but to no avail. I hope she is charged with drug offences as well.

By bonnythescouser.. Posted August 23 2009 at 7:55 AM.

Look at the drink on the table infront of her, SEE IS STILL ON THE COKE !!! LOL

I feel sory for the kids, i would never dream of putting my children in danger like that.
You have to have eyes in the back of your head with kids as it is so how can she be strung out with four kids to take care of is beyond me !!!
AND I THINK SHE NEEDS TO SAY SORRY TO PHIL AND FERN !!!!!

By Annie.. Posted August 23 2009 at 7:13 AM.

what a waste of space she is

By susan baillie.. Posted August 23 2009 at 6:34 AM.

kerry your a mess get help before u loose your kids !!

By melanie hlll.. Posted August 23 2009 at 2:17 AM.

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