Kerry Katona: Addict ex-husband George Kay threatened to inject our daughter with drugs

Kerry Katona has revealed her violent late husband George Kay threatened to kill their daughter by injecting her with drugs.

The Atomic Kitten star’s estranged husband died of an accidental drugs overdose aged 39 in 2019. Due to a restraining order he had not seen his now eight-year-old daughter Dylan-Jorge, known as DJ, for a year before he died.

Katona writes in her new autobiography Whole Again: “One of his friends came round and told me I’d done the right thing in keeping him away from DJ.

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“Apparently, he’d planned on injecting her with heroin and then killing himself."

She added: "He had threatened to rape my mum and slash her up in front of me. So I didn’t know what he was going to do next. I was terrified he was going to hurt her or DJ.”

Katona details the physical and psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of Kay during their relationship in the book.

She told OK magazine: “George has such a hold on me, even in death. I still feel scared he’s going to get me. He was so manipulative and calculated. I’m also very aware George is dead and he isn’t here to voice his side of the story. But this is all fact – and it’s my truth."

But she admitted she would still like to give daughter DJ the chance to grieve her late father.

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Katona revealed: "The sad thing is, I don’t even know where he’s buried. If I knew where his grave was, I would 100 per cent take DJ to visit him. I could cry just at the thought of DJ stood at his grave.

“His family didn’t even give me any of his ashes for DJ. I asked them so many times and I just never heard from them. I will never forgive them for that. I think it’s cruel – she was his baby and she doesn’t deserve to be treated like that.”

Rugby league player Kay had a history of drug abuse and mental health issues and died from a drugs overdose.

The couple married in 2014. They split in 2015, when he was arrested for assaulting her, but the charges were later dropped due to lack of evidence. They reconciled but went on to separate in 2017.

The singer is also mother to daughters Molly, 21, and Lilly, 19, from her marriage to Brian McFadden, as well as daughter Heidi, 15, and son Max, 14, from her second marriage to Mark Croft.

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Katona is engaged to personal trainer Ryan Mahoney, who she met on dating app Bumble in 2018. He proposed in August 2020.