Katie Price Admits She Needs an ‘Appropriate Adult’ for Paperwork – ‘I Get Bored and Don’t Understand It’
Katie Price has opened up about how her ADHD diagnosis affects her day-to-day life, including needing support when dealing with important paperwork, especially anything involving the courts.
The 46-year-old revealed that she requires the presence of an “appropriate adult” during official matters, admitting she struggles to stay focused and often finds herself zoning out when reading through legal documents. “I have to have an appropriate adult with stuff, if it’s court and stuff. Because I can’t concentrate,” she said during a chat on the We Need to Talk podcast with Paul C Brunson, reported the Mirror.
Katie explained, “People will be like, ‘What’s that?’ And I’ll tell them in a minute. I can read, of course I can read, but I read it all and then get bored or start thinking about something else. I find it hard to focus on forms.”
She first received her ADHD diagnosis around 18 months ago, after years of struggling without really knowing why. She now understands that many of her past difficulties, particularly with her bankruptcy case, were linked to symptoms of the condition. “I’ve had a lot of court stuff, even the bankruptcy stuff… I didn’t really understand everything so I would leave it to the side because I didn’t understand or read it all. You’re like, ‘Oh I’ll do it later’. Put it off. Put it off. Put it off,” she said.
Katie also spoke about how her diagnosis now plays a role in legal proceedings. “They’re like, ‘No, because of her diagnosis she needs an appropriate adult’,” she added, noting how it’s helped make things a bit more manageable.
It was Katie’s mum, Amy, who helped her realise something wasn’t quite right. “My mum kept saying to me, ‘You always… even when you’re sitting there, move around a lot, you’re quite erratic and you’re impulsive.’ And I said, ‘I don’t know mum, this is me,’ and she said, ‘There’s something not right about your brain.’”
Katie initially brushed it off but eventually agreed to get tested. Her mum booked her in for a private ADHD assessment, which confirmed she has “severe” ADHD.
She’s previously spoken on Olivia Attwood’s So Wrong It’s Right podcast about how the diagnosis has helped her understand herself more, saying she’s “impulsive and chaotic” but learning to manage it. “I’m organised chaos,” she said, “but in situations now I can control better because I understand.”
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