‘I won’t have anybody call me a liar’, Katie Price tells court
“He’s just a wrong’un, I know he’s done stuff with the (complainant), I got the messages.
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I → have → messages
“You shouldn’t turn this case against me.
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You → turn → me
The real reason why we’re here is what he’s done to a child, not me.”
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he → ’re → child
In a heated exchange, Ms Price asked Ms Piercy: “Are you calling me a liar?”
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you → ask → me
Ms Piercy replied: “I am.”
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I → reply → ?
An angry Ms Price responded: “I don’t need to be here.
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I → respond → ?
You can see in black and white something’s gone on.
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something → see → black
“I won’t have anybody call me a liar.”
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anybody → have → me
Hayler denies the charges and suggests his ex-wife had “launched a campaign” against him when their marriage ended and the allegations form part of this, the court has heard.
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court → deny → this
He was married to Ms Price at the time of the allegations, before the couple’s relationship broke down in 2018 and they divorced in 2021.
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they → break → 2021
Jurors heard on Wednesday that Hayler told police in his first interview of the allegations in January 2022 that he believed he was being “set up”.
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he → hear → January
He said “100%” he had not raped the girl, and of the first incident where it is alleged he spoke to her about sex and that the first time was special, he denied it.
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he → say → it
He said: “No never, the thought someone thinks I would do that is horrible, it makes me feel sick.”
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me → say → that
Hayler said to officers about Ms Price: “I feel she’s planted a seed to (the complainant).”
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she → say → complainant
“It’s like a smear campaign to ruin me.
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It → ’ → me
“For this to come completely out of the blue I feel like somebody here is trying to set me up.”
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In court, Ms Price described allegations against her ex-husband as “disgusting” but said she never went to the press or police about it and it was the complainant who reported it.
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who → come → it
Ms Price has concluded giving her evidence from behind a screen over three days in the trial on Wednesday.
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Price → conclude → Wednesday
In the short cross-examination on Wednesday, Ms Piercy had referenced “cocaine and booze benders”, to which the media personality replied: “That’s discrimination.
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That → reference → which
“Everyone knows I self-medicated on coke due to Kieran introducing it.
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Kieran → know → it
“You are wrong and trying to discriminate me.
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You → try → me
The press know it all because of my journey.
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press → know → journey
I ended up in therapy and tried to kill myself twice.
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I → end → myself
“You’re not going to slander my name.
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You → go → name
I don’t care if you are a barrister, you are not going to slander my name like that.
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you → care → that
“I don’t need to sit here like a therapy session.”
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I → need → session
Previously on Tuesday she denied being “angry and vengeful” towards her ex-husband, and denied any animosity towards him after a 10-month affair with their nanny.
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she → deny → nanny
Jurors heard Ms Price had chosen the nanny because she “wasn’t very attractive” and a “little bit overweight”, in the hope that Hayler would not cheat on her.
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Hayler → hear → her
Ms Piercy put it to Ms Price: “You are angry and vengeful towards the defendant Kieran Hayler, you have evidenced a vendetta against him over a number of years.”
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you → put → years
Ms Price responded: “That is not true.”
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That → respond → ?
When challenged by Ms Piercy on her view of her ex-husband, Ms Price said: “I don’t have any venom against Kieran, it was amicable when we split.”
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we → challenge → Kieran
The court previously heard that Ms Price messaged the teenage girl allegedly raped by her then-husband saying she had heard that Hayler and the girl had kissed and he had “tried it on” with her, adding later: “I will make you a little star.”
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you → hear → her
Asked in cross-examination by Ms Piercy about her use on occasion of the phrase “little star”, she said: “That’s a figure of speech.”
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That → ask → speech
Asked what did she mean, she added: “I don’t know, when she was 13 there’s no agenda or nothing behind it.
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she → ask → it
“It’s just a figure of speech.”
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It → ’ → speech
Elsewhere on Wednesday morning, Judge Mark van der Zwart warned celebrity Ms Price not to voice her beliefs about her ex-husband’s behaviours with anyone else than the complainant during cross-examination.
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Zwart → warn → examination
The warning comes after she told jurors on Tuesday there were “other kids that haven’t come forward”.
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that → come → Tuesday
The judge said to her in front of the jury: “When you’re being asked questions today please would you not mention any beliefs you may have whether Kieran Hayler has behaved inappropriately with anyone else apart from (the complainant).”
The alleged victim is not part of Hayler or Ms Price’s extended families.
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victim → say → families
The trial continues.
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trial → continue → ?
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