Katie Price‘s mother Amy has revealed she briefly died on the operating table following her recent lung transplant surgery.
The 71-year old, who suffers from the incurable and fatal condition idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, revealed that despite the terrifying situation she was ‘ready to go’ as she was convinced her daughter would eventually ‘sort herself out’.
Speaking on Katie’s podcast the The Katie Price Show Amy, who is also mother to daughter Sophie, 33 and Daniel, 48, said: ‘I went into cardiac arrest and they had to pump me to bring me back and I didn’t know that’.
The former glamour model, 45, replied: ‘Yeah, you said. And how my mum knows this, everyone, when you came out of hospital, she’s gone through all her notes. How many times did you die, mum?’.
With Amy, who was diagnosed with the condition in 2017, recalling: ‘I think it was only that once. Apparently I was shouting out, ‘I can’t breath, I can’t breathe, they’re killing me.’
Ill health: Katie Price’s mother Amy has revealed she briefly died on the operating table following her recent lung transplant surgery (pictured this month)
Scary: The 71-year old, who suffers from the incurable and fatal condition idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, revealed that despite the terrifying situation she was ‘ready to go’ Amy pictured with daughters Katie (R) and Sophie (L) in 2022
She continued: ‘That’s because I was filling up with blood but what I can remember was dreaming, thinking, ‘I’ve got to survive till five o’clock. They’re trying to kill me.’
IPF, which affects 32,500 people in Britain, is caused by genetic mutations which makes the lungs up to 100 times more vulnerable to damage from dust, smoke and pollution in the air.
‘I’m hot, I’m sweaty, I can’t breathe. I thought, ‘Five o’clock, the nurses change so these two nurses, people that are trying to kill me, right, they go home’.
‘So I was counting strips on the wall, thinking, ‘Right as I’ll do that one, breathe slower and then you save your energy a bit more’.
Amy then went on to explain how she felt ‘ready’ to die after saying goodbye to grandson and Sophie’s lad Albert, two and son Daniel, 38.
She recalled at peace with what she assumed was an inevitability, knowing that her former model daughter would eventually ‘sort herself out’ – Katie has suffered numerous set backs including drink driving convictions and a current £3.25M bankruptcy case.
Saying: ‘I thought, ‘Do you know if I go, I’ve seen Albert so it’s alright. Kate will sort herself out, Dan’s alright, tries to be alright.
‘It’s okay to go if I’m going. That’s what I thought. And then all of a sudden, you feel peaceful. Then that’s that peace bit. I felt that everything was falling into place and I could just go’.
Diagnosis: Amy, who was diagnosed with the condition in 2017, recalling: ‘I think it was only that once. Apparently I was shouting out, ‘I can’t breath, I can’t breathe, they’re killing me.
Family: She recalled at peace with what she assumed was an inevitability, knowing that her former model daughter would eventually ‘sort herself out’ – Katie has suffered numerous set backs including drink driving convictions and a current £3.25M bankruptcy case (pictured with brother Daniel in 2009)
Despite being told her she had a life expectancy of up to five years Amy has now been given longer to live following a miracle lung transplant.
She had been keeping the news of her transplant under wraps until recently as she thanked doctors and her donor.
Katie told OK! of her mother: ‘What you see is what you get with her, that’s here I get that from. I guess she’s protecting her family and this is her way because she thought she was going to die.’
Amy now plans to throw herself into raising awareness for lung conditions and has also donated her magazine fee, plus all proceeds and royalties from the book, to three charities who helped her.
Treatments for IPF include drugs, breathing through an oxygen mask and a lung transplant in rare cases.
These slow the rate at which the condition gets worse but none can stop or reverse the scarring of the lungs.
The transplant should improve Amy’s quality of life and help her live longer, according to Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis.
Shock: In Amy’s new memoir she claims the her daughter’s ex-husband Kieran once kissed her on the lips before texting her referencing the moment. Katie and Kieran pictured in 2005
Amy’s new autobiography, The Last Word touches on her daughter Katie’s plastic surgery habit and her tumultuous romantic relationships.
One claim included the fact her daughter’s ex-husband Kieran once kissed her on the lips before texting her referencing the moment.
Amy took aim at Katie’s third husband as she recalled the moment he tried it on with her.
As she discussed the numerous times Kieran had been unfaithful to her daughter, 45, Amy told how the former sex addict then turned his attentions to her.
She explained: ‘Once, after we had been for a meal at Kate’s house, Kieran and I kissed goodbye cheek on cheek and he [Kieran] ‘accidentally’ kissed me on my lips.’
Revealing the startling message then sent, she went on: ‘Later, I had a text from him saying, “That was nice”. I was shocked and tried to ignore it.
A representative for Kieran told MailOnline in response: ‘Disturbingly, no thought or consideration is being given to the children of the fathers being slandered, caught up yet again in a vicious hate campaign of untruths in a thinly veiled attempt to place blame on others.’
‘All these men have one common denominator – and that is Katie Price. An insightful side of Amy Price, a predictable read. More fiction than fact.’
