Kerry Katona claims mum Sue gave her drugs at 14 and told her it was sherbet: ‘I thought it was normal’
metro.co.ukKerry Katona has made a shock claim that her mum gave her drugs as a young teenager and told her it was sweets.The mum-of-five, who shot to fame through her music career with Atomic Kitten, has been open in the past about the sometimes bumpy relationship with her mother.Kerry’s mum Sue suffered for years from mental health and addiction issues, with Kerry being taken into care at a young age.She has now claimed that, when she was just 14 years old, her mother rubbed drugs on her gums and told her it was sherbet.Kerry went into foster care when she was 13 and had supervised visits with her mother for some time after, but would sometimes sneak off and meet Sue outside of these visits as she missed her mum.‘My mum had a terrible life, she had a really bad life,’ she told the Warrington Podcast.‘I had my first drug with my mum.
I was 14.‘She told me it was sherbet and it was speed.’As host Shaun Attwood gasped in shock, Kerry went on: ‘I was in foster care, I was only allowed to have supervised visits with my mum, but I snuck off.
Because she’s my mum, she’s the centre of my universe.‘I snuck off to this pub to go see her, and she went to the toilet with her girlfriend Tina and I thought “She’s been in there for ages.” I thought: “What is she doing?”‘I went in and she had this bag of white powder and I go “What’s that, what are you doing?”‘And she went -‘ at this, Kerry pretended to dig something out of a bag with her finger, and went on: ‘Put a finger in [my mouth] and rubbed it on my gums.‘She said it was sherbert.
And it was speed!’Referencing her own difficult background of drug addiction, Kerry said it started long before she rose to fame with the girl group.‘I didn’t know any different.
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