EXCLUSIVE Kerry Katona: ‘I’m not everybody’s cup of tea’

Kerry Katona says her social life consists of working and doing interviews like this one, and you can totally tell. A chat with her is like hanging out with your loudest, most non-filtered friend at the pub (not that she goes to the pub these days – more on that in a bit).She's always great company, talking at a million miles an hour; always brilliantly honest, warm-hearted and witty.

We're speaking to Kerry for the paperback edition of her third autobiography Whole Again, which details her chaotic and colourful life with an unflinching focus on the abusive, coercive and controlling behaviour Kerry suffered at the hands of third husband George Kay, who died in 2019. Despite a litany of similarity grim life experiences: foster homes, drug addiction, bad husbands, divorces, mental health criss, and bankruptcy, the 42 year old tackles it all with refreshing and upbeat candour.Now an entrepreneur, mum of five, business owner, fiancée, author, reality TV pro and "OnlyFans MILF" (her words), the ex-Atomic Kitten singer has added yet another string to her bow, as a motivational speaker and life guru.We caught up with Kerry while she was in the middle of her No Regrets tour, where fans get to hear her talk about her life and have the chance to ask her advice on anything, from relationships and mental health, to addiction and bankruptcy.We feel a chat show coming on...Phenomenal.

The messages I've received from people have brought me to tears. There's so many people out there who haven't realised that they're in that kind of [coercive and controlling] relationship.

I’ve just done the audio book for it, which was really difficult to do, I was crying reading it out. But I wanted to get the emotion in there, because I want people to