Katie Price and Dwight Yorke's sad feud over son Harvey from adoption bid to DNA test

While Katie Price divides opinion, astir radical tin hold she's a devoted parent to her eldest lad Harvey.

Harvey, 22, has Septo-optic Dysplasia, autism and Prader-Willi syndrome, which means helium lives astatine a assemblage that tin supply him with round-the-clock care. Katie, 46, precocious told her Katie Price Show podcast her lad had sent her a heartbreaking message: "Hey mummy, I don't similar to enactment astatine assemblage due to the fact that I've got a atrocious cough, due to the fact that I americium truthful bored to enactment astatine assemblage mummy. I americium truthful bittersweet and aggravated astatine staying astatine assemblage due to the fact that I hatred it."

The erstwhile glamour exemplary has ever been unfastened astir the difficulties of caring for her disabled son, who has analyzable needs but small is spoken astir Harvey's biologic father. The mum-of-five says erstwhile planetary and Premier League footballer Dwight Yorke, 52, doesn't support interaction with her eldest child.

Katie got large erstwhile she was concisely dating Dwight, with their narration was short-lived erstwhile she allegedly discovered Dwight had cheated. The exemplary erstwhile told however she was connected a lingerie photoshoot erstwhile she heard that the sportsman had been partying with different women.

During a 2009 interview, Dwight addressed the allegations, admitting helium wasn't the 'perfect partner'. "I deliberation anyone who's successful a narration would similar their spouse to beryllium faithful and I'm saying I wasn't the cleanable partner, she knows that," helium said. The 2 warring exes endured a rocky narration passim the remainder of her pregnancy, with Dwight denying paternity until a paternity test proved otherwise. The footballer did crook up to the infirmary to sojourn his son, and besides enactment his sanction connected the commencement certificate portion trying to importune that Harvey should instrumentality his surname.

However, his visits with his lad became fewer and acold between, with Dwight admitting: "It is simply a operation of antithetic things, 1 my clip docket and being based up successful Manchester and a footballer connected an mundane basis. Not sitting present and accidental I'm a full cleanable father, I've made mistakes on the mode and I would emotion to crook the timepiece back." But successful his ain publication published the aforesaid year, Born To Score, helium painted a precise antithetic representation of his feelings towards his son.

"From the infinitesimal I acceptable eyes connected the small fella, I person loved my lad similar I could ne'er ever person imagined possible," helium wrote. "I americium not going to perceive anymore that I did not attraction for Harvey, oregon person immoderate knowing of his needs oregon that I was not funny successful his welfare.

"Over the years I person heard Katie saying however [Peter] Andre is Harvey's dada and what a terrible, uncaring begetter I person been, each of which sticks successful my throat. Maybe if she had not made beingness truthful hard for me, mightiness person been capable to instrumentality a acold much proactive role."

At the time, Katie's then-husband Peter Andre wanted to follow Harvey, but Dwight was furious and wrote that helium wanted to "throttle" him. But 5 years later, Katie claimed that Dwight had nary narration with Harvey. She wrote successful her 2014 autobiography: "The past clip Harvey's biologic begetter Dwight Yorke saw him, which was astir 8 years ago, the archetypal happening helium asked was wherefore was Harvey truthful big. Why was I overfeeding him?

"I'd explained Harvey's information to Dwight galore times, but helium refused to recognize it and kept going connected astir him being fat. It's bittersweet that he's incapable to judge Harvey for who helium is and seems incapable oregon unwilling to enactment wrong his limitations. On that occasion, I deliberation Dwight wanted to blasted idiosyncratic for the information that his lad is disabled.

"I person ever said that if Dwight could spot what a courageous and talented lad Harvey is past helium would bask being with him truthful much." Katie claimed she has made aggregate attempts to scope retired to Dwight implicit the years, insisting it's "never excessively late" to beryllium successful their son's life.

In November 2018, Katie shared a bid of babe pics arsenic she acknowledged the conflict of bringing up a kid with analyzable needs - and told Dwight the "door is ever open". Katie made a much hopeless plea to her ex successful December 2019, claiming Harvey "didn't merit it" arsenic she shared a heartbreaking video of her lad asking for his dad.

When asked who helium would privation to constitute a connection to connected Instagram by Katie, Harvey replied: "Daddy Dwight." "I emotion you Daddy Dwight. You look beautiful," added Harvey erstwhile asked what helium would say.

Katie past wrote to her 2 cardinal followers successful the caption: "Anyone who knows @Officialdwightyorke19 delight get him to interaction his lad Harvey doesn't merit this, helium sees his different lad Tiger truthful I don't understand! He does foundation enactment for antithetic kids foundation yet doesn't spot oregon enactment his ain son. I don't get it!"

In 2020, Katie revealed drastic plans to present Harvey to Dwight aft expected years of nary contact. Chatting with pal Mel, Katie said: "What I would similar to bash is crook up astatine his dad's spot - Dwight Yorke's - ringing the doorbell and beryllium determination with Harvey, for him to spot Harvey. That's what I would similar to bash and I volition bash that. I deliberation Dwight should commencement entering Harvey's life, it's been years."

Accusing Dwight of having not seen his lad since helium was four, Katie added: "I would emotion Dwight to travel into interaction with Harvey. How tin you not privation to cognize Harv? He's truthful funny." In 2021, Katie revealed successful her publication that Dwight had really spoken to Harvey implicit the telephone connected his tenth day - and she was "shocked" that it happened. "But I deliberation Dwight was adjacent much shocked erstwhile Harvey asked him, 'When americium I seeing you?'," she said.

Katie said the past clip she saw Dwight was erstwhile she met up with him astatine a edifice successful Alderley Edge, Cheshire, successful 2012. They spoke astir what Harvey had said connected the phone, past Dwight told her helium didn't privation to beryllium successful Harvey's life.

"Even aft helium said that, I was inactive trying to beryllium persistent. I wanted Harvey to person his dada successful his life, but helium conscionable wasn't funny successful immoderate of it," Katie explained. "This isn't astir me. This is your lad and your soma and blood. But helium conscionable didn't springiness a s**t.

"There's lone truthful overmuch you tin effort earlier you realise you're flogging a dormant horse. I got up and near and that's the past clip I saw him. I haven't heard from him since."

Despite Dwight not stepping up, it was revealed by Harvey's maternal grandmother, Amy Price, that his cause has enquired astir his lad galore times. In Katie's 2021 book, Amy said: "I deliberation it's bittersweet that Dwight isn't successful Harvey's life. His cause has ever been successful interaction with me.

"If Harvey isn't well, she'll connection maine and inquire however helium is. But Dwight ne'er asks himself." The twelvemonth prior, Harvey was hospitalised and was truly poorly successful intensive care, and Dwight's cause rang Amy to inquire "how atrocious helium was".

"I said, 'Look, this has got to halt now. If Dwight wants to cognize astir Harvey, he's got our fig and helium should ringing america himself'," Amy wrote. "He shouldn't beryllium going done his agent. It's astir clip helium took immoderate responsibility. But we've heard thing from Dwight, which is simply a shame.

"Harvey is besides missing retired connected a narration with his brother, arsenic Dwight has different son. It truly is specified a shame due to the fact that we ever had a bully narration with Dwight."