Loose Women’s Janet Street-Porter refuses to ‘condemn this troubled woman’ as she defends Katie Price after drink-driving arrest

metro.co.uk:

Katie Price following her arrest for drink-driving after she flipped her car.While the Loose Women star, 74, doesn’t condone Katie’s actions, she spoke out in favour of her character after getting to know the former glamour model, 43, when she was a panellist on the show.Katie had appeared in court on Wednesday where she pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol and cocaine while her license was still suspended.She had overturned her car in the early hours of Tuesday morning and no other vehicles were involved in the collision.Janet wrote in her column for the Daily Mail that Katie was ‘lucky to be alive’ after the crash, which came after she ‘reached a new low in a life that’s lurched from one disaster to another in the past.