Katie Price has vowed to care for her terminally ill mother Amy as she continues to battle her incurable lung condition.
In a new interview, the former glamour model, 41, admitted while her illness is ‘slowing her down’, her beloved parent, 66, isn’t ‘giving in without a fight’ as she’s joined a choir to help open her organs.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a condition that causes the build-up of scar tissue in the lungs.
‘I know everything about her’: Katie Price has vowed to care for her mother Amy as she continues to battle her lung condition (pictured with mum and half-sister Sophie last year)
The reality star told The Sunday Times Magazine: ‘She puts on a massive show of strength but her illness is slowing her down. She has joined a choir to open up her lungs. She’s not giving in without a fight.
‘We’ve both got tough exteriors, neither of us show anyone what’s going on inside. Because we know we’re losing Mum, nothing goes unsaid. I know everything about her and she knows everything about me.
‘I miss holding her and giving her a cuddle, but there’s a lot of banter on our family Zooms too, because if we didn’t muck about we’d never get through it. She knows that out of everyone, I’ll be the one who cares for her at the end.’
Elsewhere in the discussion, the media personality admitted ‘ruthless’ Amy has left her ’embarrassed’ when she’s quizzed her ‘hangers-on and freeloader’ exes in the past.
‘She isn’t giving in without a fight’: In a new interview, the glamour model, 41, admitted while her illness is ‘slowing her down’, her beloved parent, 66, has joined a choir (pictured in 2019)
Faith: The reality star also admitted Amy, who is usually ‘ruthless’ about her romances, believes Carl Woods is a ‘good egg’ (pictured this year)
Katie, who previously dated fitness instructor Kris Boyson, builder Charles Drury and rugby player Danny Cipriani, claimed her current beau Carl Woods, 32, has passed the ‘t***er test’ as her mum believes he’s a ‘good egg’.
The TV star revealed Amy is struggling to breathe earlier this year, after she was diagnosed with IPF in 2017.
During an interview on BBC Northern Ireland’s Nolan Live, the TV star said: ‘My mum doesn’t smoke, she’s always been so healthy and she’s got this incurable lung disease and there’s nothing you can do.
‘So the British Lung Foundation, she got us in touch with them to talk to other people and they just said, ”Build memories, take lots of pictures” and that’s all you can do really. What else can you do? You know it’s coming.
‘She’s only got like 32 per cent left of her lung capacity, we have got 100 per cent, she’s got 32.
‘So if you imagine now being that out of breath, it must be awful, and it’s an awful way to go. It’s horrible to see my mum go through it because she’s so active, it’s cruel.’
During a recent appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain with her daughter, Amy said she’s in her ‘last couple of years’.
She said at the time: ‘What with COVID and everything, if I catch a cold or COVID there’s just no hope, so that would be the end of it for me.
‘But positively, I’m hoping, I’m pushing to see if I can get on the transplant list, because there is no cure and there’s nothing else they can do for me really.
‘With the transplant my age is against me, because the results are not that good as you get older.’
When Amy was first diagnosed with IPF, she was given a three to five year life expectancy by doctors.
In recent months, she has been shielding from her family to protect herself during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Katie only able to see her mum through the window.
The pair were able to see each other in October alongside Katie’s half-sister Sophie, after they passed a coronavirus test so they knew they were safe to see Amy on her birthday.
Hard: Amy has been shielding from her family to protect herself during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Katie only able to see her mum through the window (pictured in 2020)