KATIE Price’s third and final day of evidence at Kieran Hayler’s alleged rape trial spiralled into fiery court outbursts and a stark warning from the judge.
The former glamour model lashed out at Hayler’s lawyer – accusing her of “slander” and ranting: “I won’t have anybody call me a liar”.
Despiter being slapped down about her outbursts, Katie continued to row with Arlette Piercy as her cross-examination became more heated.
In one tense exchange, she asked the defence lawyer: “Are you calling me a liar?”
Ms Piercy replied: “I am.”
Katie then responded: “I don’t need to be here. You can see in black and white something’s gone on.
“I won’t have anybody call me a liar.”
Katie also branded Hayler, who is accused of raping and sexually a 13-year-old girl, a “wrong’un” and said: “You shouldn’t turn this case against me”.
She continued: “The real reason why we’re here is what he’s done to a child, not me.”
Ms Piercy then said she “can’t continue like this” after Katie repeatedly spoke over her.
She said: “Because you know I’m right.
“I won’t have anyone tell me I’m a liar. I’m not a liar.”
After Ms Piercy then referenced “cocaine and booze benders”, the reality star snapped back: “That’s discrimination.
“Everyone knows I self-medicated on coke due to Kieran introducing it.
“You are wrong and trying to discriminate me. The press know it all because of my journey. I ended up in therapy and tried to kill myself twice.
“You’re not going to slander my name. I don’t care if you are a barrister, you are not going to slander my name like that.
“I don’t need to sit here like a therapy session.”
Judge Mark van der Zwart was forced to intervene and told Katie to “stop talking please”.
He urged: “Take a drink, take a breath, take a moment.”
As she continued to try to talk, the judge continued: “Ms Price, let’s leave it there please.”
It came after she was given a prior warning by the judge to keep her views to herself following another rant yesterday.
Katie had claimed there were “other kids that haven’t come forward” during yet another tense exchange with Ms Piercy.
But the judge said: “When you’re being asked questions today please would you not mention any beliefs you may have whether Kieran Hayler has behaved inappropriately with anyone else apart from (the complainant).”
When she began repeating other allegations, she was slapped down by the judge.
He said: “I’m going to stop you there, Ms Price.
“Ms Price, golden rule: when I talk, nobody else does.”
She replied: “OK, sorry.”
Hayler has denied the allegations, which allegedly took place in West Sussex while he was married to Katie.
The complainant is not a member of his or Katie’s extended family.
Katie, 48, yesterday told jurors she did not have “any venom” against her ex-husband and said their split was “amicable”.
She also said she had not read any media reports of his trial because she had been “handcuffed to Suella Braverman all week” for a Channel 4 show.
Jurors were told how she had messaged the girl and vowed to make her a “little star” while quizzing her about whether she had kissed Hayler.
The exchange happened in May 2017 – eight months after the last alleged attack by Hayler, it was said.
Katie wrote: “I WON’T say anything and I PROMISE I’ll protect you!
“I’m only asking as this is a serious allegation to say.”
The girl, who was 14 at the time of the message exchange, replied: “It was just a flirt thing and he knew it was wrong. Nothing happened.”
Katie said: “Was it just a flirt and what did he do to realise it was wrong? Did he try (to) kiss you?
“I won’t bring (it) up anymore (I) just want (the) truth! I will make you a little star.
“Please help and tell me… as long as I know the truth, I won’t say. I PROMISE.”
Giving evidence behind a screen, Katie said it was “just a figure of speech” and claimed there was “no agenda or nothing behind it”.
She also denied being “angry and vengeful” towards Hayler and said she did not have a “vendetta” against him.
She ended her evidence yesterday by opening up about her mum Amy, 74, who has lung condition Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).
Katie said: “My mum’s dying at the moment and I haven’t been able to see her (because) I’ve got a cold… she’s got days.
“I did promise my mum I’d see her tomorrow.”
The girl, now 23, reported her allegations to the NSPCC in 2021.
The children’s charity then referred it to police and she was interviewed by cops in December 2021, with Hayler questioned the following month.
He denied any of the allegations took place and that anything sexual occurred.
Jurors heard he also told police in his first interview of the allegations in January 2022 that he believed he was being “set up”.
He said “100 per cent” he had not raped the girl, adding: “No never, the thought someone thinks I would do that is horrible, it makes me feel sick.”
Hayler also said to officers that he believed Katie had “planted a seed to (the complainant)”.
He added: “It’s like a smear campaign to ruin me.
“For this to come completely out of the blue I feel like somebody here is trying to set me up.
“Kate would put pressure on anybody. For her to not have anything on me I think kills her a little bit inside.”
In court, Katie described the allegations as “disgusting” but said she never went to the press or police about it and it was the complainant who reported it.
Hayler, who has worked as a stripper and actor, married Katie at a luxury resort in the Bahamas in 2013.
He was her third husband following her marriages to singer Peter Andre and cage fighter Alex Reid.
Katie and Hayler split in 2018 and formally divorced in 2021.
The trial continues.