Brian McFadden’s children have suffered at the hands of their drug-addicted mother for years, Josephine Agostino reports.
Kerry Katona, the mother of Brian McFadden’s kids, is so addicted to cocaine she only sees them a few hours a week and has been “too wasted” to take them to school, her stepsister Pat Ferrier claims.
Pat, 51, says Kerry’s $500-a-day drug addictions have left her children — Molly, 8, and Lilly Sue, 6, from her marriage to Brian, and Heidi, 2, and Max, 1, with current husband Mark Croft — alone and scared while their mother stays holed up in her bedroom.
“Kerry does love her kids but she is so hooked on the stuff that she always puts it first. She doesn’t want the kids to see the coke, but they’re often in the house when she’s high,” says Pat, who’s spoken out in UK magazine Closer.
Brian’s ex-wife appeared in UK newspaper News Of The World on August 16 snorting what appeared to be cocaine in her bathroom.
Days later, after being cautioned for drug possession and admitting to walloping her husband “quite a few times” for groping a stripper, she was arrested for allegedly beating her accountant David McHugh over the head and damaging his office equipment. But these incidents are only the tip of the iceberg, according to Pat.
While working as a cleaner in her stepsister’s home for 18 months, Pat’s known Kerry, 28, to use drugs every day for years, regularly going on benders that last days and even suffering a drug-induced fit.
Despite only seeing their mum a few hours a week, Molly and Lilly are all too aware Kerry needs help, according to Pat.
“Sometimes they say things like ‘Mummy’s not well today’ when she’s on one of her benders. And Lilly said recently, ‘Well, Mum and Mark are always in the bedroom.'”
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