Katie Price leaves court with blanket over her head after hearing

The former glamour model from Brighton tried to hide her face as she left Crawley Magistrates’ Court this afternoon, where she pleaded guilty to a string of offences.

The 43-year-old admitted to drink driving while disqualified and without insurance following a crash near her home on the the B2135 near Partridge Green.

Price wore a pink jumper as she appeared in the dock before two magistrates.

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After being confronted by police at the scene, Price was heard saying “I took drugs, I should not be driving, I admit it all”, the court heard.

She was charged with driving while unfit to drive through drink, using a motor vehicle in a public place without third party insurance and driving while disqualified.

A drugs wipe gave a positive reading for cocaine, prosecutor Debbie Jones said.

An image shared by police from the scene on Tuesday showed a car flipped on its side.

Straight out of the office to a crash in #Shoreham and now on scene at a single vehicle crash in #WestGrinstead. Occupant of the vehicle is thankfully on the whole okay. Road is closed whilst we get the vehicle recovered. #DayShift #RPU pic.twitter.com/0X0j4IXHpx

— PC Tom Van Der Wee (@PCTomVanDerWee) September 28, 2021

Officers responded to the crash at around 6.20am, where Price was arrested on suspicion of driving while above the legal limit and was taken to hospital.

Defence solicitor Joe Harrington said: “She has had a lot of personal problems recently.

“Currently she is in the process of bankruptcy proceedings so her house may be repossessed.

“So quite a lot going on in this lady’s life, a really difficult period,” he added.

Mr Harrington argued that the driving was a “one-off” incident.

Katie Price outside court in Crawley

He added: “As I understand it she had been drinking, she was lonely and she decided to go and see a friend who lived a relatively short distance away and that is when the incident happened.”

He asked magistrates to defer the sentencing for several weeks.

Appearing on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Monday, Price said she is banned from driving until the end of the year.

Discussing her disabled son Harvey, 19, she said: “Harvey’s in Cheltenham now.

“He keeps ringing me saying, ‘Mummy I miss you, I need kisses and cuddles’, so it is quite hard because obviously I don’t get my licence back until December, so I can’t just whizz in the car down there and it’s not close.”

The two magistrates, including chair of the bench Julie Hutton, have risen to consider their decision.