Kerry additionally shared how she “blamed everybody else” when she was declared bankrupt in August 2008.
The former Atomic Kitten star incessantly shares insights into her life earlier than fame with followers, beforehand revealing how her mom launched her to amphetamines on the age of 14.
As a teen, she was placed into the care system, residing with 4 units of foster mother and father and attending eight totally different faculties.
In a brand new interview with fellow OnlyFans star Casey Boonstra on OFTV, Kerry candidly spoke concerning the numerous points she confronted rising up and defined how she turned her life round.
“I wasn’t academic. I was dyslexic. Foster home, refuges… I had four sets of foster parents, three refuges,” she shared.
“I had a really tough childhood. My mum was always trying to kill herself; I was in refuges; I was doing drugs with my mum…
“And then I got in a girl band. I couldn’t afford to pay the rent, so I started lap dancing while I was in Atomic Kitten.”
Kerry additionally shared how she “blamed everybody else” when she was declared bankrupt in August 2008 after failing to pay the ultimate £82,000 of a £417,000 tax invoice.
Liz Mcclarnon, Natasha Hamilton And Kerry Katona (Photo by Brian Rasic/Getty Images)
She filed for chapter a second time in July 2013 at County Court in Wigan.
“The first time I went into chapter 11, I used to be a multimillionaire, I had all of it. My accountant truly had me offed. Him and my ex-husband,” the 43-year-old stated.
“And it just went, all of it just went. I lost everything – the cars, the house, the lot. I lost it all.
“I was so resentful and had all this hatred and blamed everybody else. It’s like being in a rocking chair going back and forth; it was getting me nowhere.
“It’s been, it’s gone, there’s nothing I can do with it. But coming to those terms and realising it, it’s quite hard to get to that part of going, ‘look, it’s money at the end of the day’.
“But what surprised me was how I was treated when I lost my money by people. You’d think I had leprosy or something. (I was like,) ‘I’m still the same person’.
“And then I went bankrupt again… Now I’ve become a millionaire again.”
Kerry Katona
Kerry stated she lived in a “self-pity party” for a very long time earlier than she realised she wanted to reevaluate her life.
“I lived in a self-pity party and it was getting me nowhere. It doesn’t get anybody anywhere. I can’t keep blaming my past for that,” she stated.
“Until you start accepting the things you’ve done wrong yourself… Don’t get me wrong, circumstances and people didn’t help, but you’ve got to take responsibility for your own actions and let all that go because it’s going to eat you alive. There’s nothing you can do.
“For me, it’s not about how many times you fall, it’s about how many times you get back up, and God loves a trier. You can knock me down, but you won’t keep me down. That’ll be my decision.
“I’ve got one life and I want to make the most of it.”
The I’m A Celebrity… Get me Out of Here! winner defined that she turned her life round by flogging raunchy photographs of herself on OnlyFans through the pandemic.
“It was the first lockdown of Covid and I couldn’t even afford to pay the rent… Someone mentioned it to me. Lockdown was really in my favour with it, and it just changed my life.
Kerry Katona
“As soon as I started doing OnlyFans and took everything into my own hands, it gave me the confidence to go, ‘it’s not my business what you think of me’. I did this by myself.”
Defending her choice to pose nude on-line, the mum-of-five stated: “I’m on national television saying, ‘yeah, I get my t*ts out’. And what? Nicole Kidman does it, Sandra Bullock has, Jennifer Aniston has, Natalie Portman has. I’m not doing anything that they haven’t done.
“What’s so different about me doing OnlyFans and them doing it on a big screen, being paid £10 million, and getting an award for it?”
