Kerry Katona says her mum gave her drugs when she was 14 and claimed it was sherbet

Tom Beasley
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Kerry Katona says it was her mother Sue who first gave her drugs as a teenager. (PA/Getty)
Kerry Katona says it was her mother Sue who first gave her drugs as a teenager. (PA/Getty)
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Kerry Katona has revealed her first experience of drugs was when she was given speed by her mum as a 14-year-old after being told it was sherbet.

Katona had supervised visits with her mother as a teenager while she was in the foster care system, but would often sneak out to see her outside of those times.

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Speaking to Shaun Attwood and Jen Hopkins on the Warrington Podcast, Katona said it was on one of these occasions that she was first given drugs.

She said: "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?'

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"I went in and she had this bag of white powder and I go 'What’s that, what are you doing?'"

Katona said her mum then "put a finger in [my mouth] and rubbed it on my gums", adding: "She said it was sherbet, and it was speed".

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Katona rose to fame in the late 90s as an 18-year-old with pop trio Atomic Kitten, before moving into TV work and winning I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here in 2004.

The star said she is surprised that people link her troubles with addiction to being a part of the music industry, given she was already using drugs before then.

Kerry Katona was part of the original line-up of Atomic Kitten in 1999. (Getty)
Kerry Katona was part of the original line-up of Atomic Kitten in 1999. (Getty)

Katona said: "I didn’t know any different. People think I f***ed my life up because I was in the industry. I was doing drugs well before Atomic Kitten.

"But I thought it was normal. I would save up my pocket money from my foster parents to get a wrap of whizz [speed]."

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Katona has now been off drugs for a number of years and has battled financial troubles, saying that at the height of her problems she "wanted to drive the car off a bridge".

Things have turned around in recent years however, with the star revealing that her saucy OnlyFans page has made her a millionaire once again.