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Katie Price claims Dwight Yorke ‘cut ties with Harvey’ after son asked to see him in 2012
Katie Price claimed Dwight Yorke cut ties with her and son Harvey after an awkward meeting (Picture: Rex)
Katie Price has claimed that Dwight Yorke cut ties with her and their son Harvey in 2012, in an ‘awkward’ meeting.
The mum-of-five, 43, shares her eldest child with the former footballer, but he has had very little to do with the 19-year-old, who was born with Prader-Willi syndrome and is partially blind.
Opening up about their bond in her new book, Katie Price: Harvey and Me, part of which has been serialised in the Mirror, the I’m A Celebrity star claimed that her ex ‘spoke to Harvey over the phone’ on his 10th birthday, during which the youngster asked: ‘When am I seeing you?’
‘The last time I saw Dwight was in 2012, when I met up with him at a restaurant in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, to speak about Harvey and what Harvey had said on the phone,’ she penned, explaining that the meeting was ‘for our son’.
She alleged that it was at this point that he said that he didn’t want anything to with either Katie or Harvey anymore.
‘Even after he said that, I was still trying to be persistent,’ she continued. ‘I wanted Harvey to have his dad in his life, but he just wasn’t interested in any of it. “This isn’t about me. This is your son and your flesh and blood,” I said.
Dwight and Katie briefly dated in the early noughties (Picture: WireImage)
Katie has always been proud of her bond with son Harvey (Picture: PA)
‘But he just didn’t give a s**t. There’s only so much you can try before you realise you’re flogging a dead horse. I got up and left and that’s the last time I saw him. I haven’t heard from him since.’
However, despite his stance, Katie vowed that she will never stop asking Dwight to be a part of their son’s life, and will never give up hope that they can reconnect.
She added: ‘There’s been many times where I’ve thought, “Should I just turn up at Dwight’s doorstep with Harvey?” Sometimes I think, “What the hell have I got to lose?” But I just know it would be a waste of time and a waste of petrol.’
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Katie briefly dated Dwight in the early noughties and she quickly fell pregnant with her first child, giving birth to Harvey in 2002.
Dwight initially even refusing to acknowledge that the tot was his until they undertook a DNA test.
He later spoke about becoming a dad in an interview with Kay Burley, admitting he ‘wasn’t the perfect father’.
Metro.co.uk has contacted Dwight’s reps for a comment.
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