Katie Price blasted “disgusting” rumors that the search for her missing husband, Lee Andrews, is a publicity stunt.
“I need to look after my own sanity. I’m taking a step back for my own sanity,” Price, 47, told her Instagram followers on Thursday, May 21. “There’s only one person I also need to look after [which] is myself. I am now taking a step back and that’s it.”
The Celebrity Big Brother UK star continued, “I’ve still got to work. There’s exciting things coming up. But, for my sanity, I don’t know what’s true, what’s not true. I’m like that now. I don’t know. … My antennas are up now. I’ve decided to take a step back from everything, assess everything in my way and just continue with my life. What will be will be.”
In an earlier vlog on Tuesday, May 19, Price denied that she had any additional information about her husband allegedly going missing in Dubai last week.
“I want to make it clear again to everyone: This is not a publicity stunt. This is real, and anyone who thinks that I’m part of this is disgusting,” she told viewers.
“None of his family have still heard anything from Lee. His dad’s out in Dubai has heard nothing, and the rest of his family’s in the U.K., and obviously me,” Price added. “We have reported him to the British embassy as a missing person; He’s been reported in Dubai as a missing person. I just don’t know what to say.”
Price and Andrews were supposed to appear together on Good Morning Britain on May 12 but he was a no-show. At the time, his absence was blamed on travel problems in Dubai, where Andrews has lived since the early 2000s.
During that interview, Price was asked directly whether or not it was true that Andrews had been detained in the United Arab Emirates.
“No, I feel like they just said it to me in there [backstage] so I just said to Lee, ‘Apparently a British man has been detained, can you confirm it’s not you?’ He’s done a voice note back and said it’s not him and sent laughing emojis,” she explained. “He’s at the airport and on his way. He had things to do, didn’t make the flight, because of all his business stuff he has to do.”
Four days later, Price revealed that there was more to the story, revealing that she’d last spoken to Andrews on May 13. Per Price, Andrews claimed he “had ties around his hands” in the back of a van and said he was being taken to a black ops site in the UAE.
“That’s the last contact anyone’s had, his family and myself,” she told fans in a May 16 vlog. “So, this is the third day now. Obviously, he phoned me before the location went off. He’s in the middle of nowhere … obviously, I’m worried like, what the hell’s happened? Then Thursday came, still nothing. My messages weren’t going through. It was just one tick.”
On Monday, May 18, London’s Evening Standard reported that Andrews’ family filed a missing persons report at the British embassy in Dubai.
“We are supporting the family of a British man and are in contact with the local authorities,” a spokesperson for Britain’s Foreign Office told multiple media outlets that same day.
Price has been married four times total — first to “Mysterious Girl” singer Peter Andre, with whom she shares son Junior Savva Andreas, 20, and daughter Princess Tiaamii Crystal Esther, 18. Following Price and Andre’s 2009 divorce, she was married to MMA fighter Alex Reid from 2010 to 2011 and Kieran Hayler from 2013 to 2021. (Price and Hayler, 39, share son Jett Riviera, 12, and daughter Bunny Hayler, 11. Price also has an older son, Harvey, 23, with soccer star Dwight Yorke.)
In January 2026, Price tied the knot for the fourth time when she exchanged vows with Andrews in a lavish Dubai ceremony.
