‘I can’t be a traitor’ says Katie Price as she explains tragic reason behind career pause

Katie Price has revealed why she has stopped writing books in recent years, after previously finding success both as a non-fiction and fiction writer.

Discussing her writing career on her podcast The Katie Price Show, the glamour model turned TV personality, 45, opened up about how her close friend, and ghostwriter, Rebecca Farnworth passed away, with Katie feeling like a "traitor" when she tried to continue writing.

During a Q&A section of the podcast, Katie's sister Sophie read out a question from a fan, which was: "Katie would you ever bring out another fiction book – Angel was my favourite"

To which Katie replied: "There will be more books, 100%, but unfortunately, Rebecca, who I used to do all my novels with, she died.

"So that set me back doing the books because I felt like I was being a traitor doing it with someone else." Sophie then added: "Yeah, it was sad."

Rebecca worked with Katie on both her fiction and non-fiction books, but passed away in 2014 aged just 49 following a battle with cancer.

Back in 2012, Katie had said that she "felt sorry" for Rebecca, telling BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour: "I feel sorry for Rebecca. She's been with me about 10 or 11 years. I speak in the dictaphone.

"You've definitely got to have a talent to sit there and write the book. I mean she's amazing at it.

"So, I come up with the plot, and then we go through each chapter together. She fills out the bits. She's just amazing how she does it. She really is good."

Katie's discussion about her own writing career comes after he mother Amy released her own memoir, The Last Word, in which she wanted to "set the record straight" about her daughter's somewhat turbulent life.

Discussing her book with OK!, Amy said: "It's about my daughter, Kate. There are so many wrongs that have been published about her or said about her and I want to set the record straight because I know her the best.

"It is about things that have affected Kate. What people don't really know about Kate, they'll find in my book."

Amy, who has the lung disease Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, also sadly admitted she didn't think she'd ever get to see it be released.

She said: "When I started writing it I thought I would have been dead. Touch wood, I'm still here."

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