Princess Andre has recounted the frightening moment she thought she was going to die during a carjacking in South Africa.
The 18-year-old social media influencer is getting candid about the tough experiences she has had in life in her new ITV reality show, The Princess Diaries, and this has included a difficult trip down memory lane.
Daughter of Katie Price and Peter Andre, she has grown up in the spotlight for better or for worse.
In 2018, the then-10-year-old and her mother were driving with a film crew between Johannesburg to Swaziland for another reality show, My Crazy Life, when they were held at gunpoint by six men.
The mother-of-five has been honest about the trauma she endured after the terrifying ordeal over the years, but this is the first time Princess has properly spoken about her side of the story.
Recalling the moment on her new show, she said: ‘I just remember the noise, oh my God it was disgusting.
‘This guy had a baseball bat and he started smashing the window.’
Remembering that the thugs had asked Price to ‘hand over her children’, the young reality star added: ‘I looked out the window and I remember it not feeling real, and the guy was just staring into my soul.
‘Then they were like “we’ve got guns, we’re going to shoot you’.
‘My mum… the guys were like touching up my mum, which is disgusting, and she was like “just f**off my kids, don’t touch my kids”.
‘I think they wanted me because of my blonde hair and blue eyes cause they said ‘give me your kids’. Imagine hearing that at like 10 years old.
‘After the hijack happened, the police said it was a miracle that we survived. It is the scariest thing I have ever been put through.
‘In that moment I genuinely thought I was going to get kidnapped and die,’ she emotionally concluded.
Speaking with her brother, Junior, she said about ‘a lot of those traumas are still there’ and she has learnt to deal with them.
In 2022, Price, 47, revealed that she had been sexually assaulted at gunpoint.
She explained: ‘We had no security, if we had security they would have been able to deal with the six guys that jumped us, held me at gunpoint and raped me.’
In an interview with MailOnline at the time, she added that she had contemplated suicide due to the impact of the incident.
‘I hit severe depression a couple of years ago, depression on top of PTSD, I was suicidal, didn’t want to be here. I tried to kill myself.
‘I knocked myself out and had black eyes. I had bruises around my neck. I woke up. I didn’t want to be here,’ she said.
The Princess Diaries is available to stream on ITVX.
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