Katie Price messaged a teenage girl allegedly raped by her then-husband, telling her: “I will make you a little star,” a court has heard.
Price’s ex-husband, Kieran Hayler, is on trial at Lewes Crown Court accused of three counts of rape and one count of sexual assault against the then 13-year-old girl in 2016 in West Sussex, all of which he denies.
Jurors saw messages sent between Price and the girl, then aged 14, in which Price said she had heard Hayler and the girl had kissed and that he had “tried it on” with her.
“I’m only asking as this is a serious allegation,” Price had then asked, to which the teenager replied that it was “just a flirt thing” and that “nothing happened”.
In the messages shown in court, Price also asked: “Did he kiss you? I won’t bring up anymore just want truth. I will make you a little star.”
In addition, she asked the girl if Hayler had ever said he liked or fancied her, to which she replied: “Yes, but I took it as a joke.”
Asked in cross-examination as to why she said nothing happened, the complainant, now an adult, replied that she was “trying to brush it off”.
Pressed on what she took Price to mean by: “I will make you a little star”, she told the court: “I don’t think I said anything. I think I just ignored it.”