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Katie Price Faces the Question She Feared for 22 Years

By on Saturday, December 6, 2025

⭐ “Why Doesn’t Dad Want Me?” — The Question Katie Price Spent Two Decades Praying Her Son Would Never Ask

By Linh Nguyen – Saturday, December 6, 2025

Some moments in motherhood arrive like a storm you’ve seen on the horizon for years but still aren’t ready for when it finally breaks.
For Katie Price, that moment didn’t come during the chaos of paparazzi flashbulbs, or in the middle of a TV interview.
It came in silence — in an ordinary afternoon — when her eldest son, Harvey, now 22, turned to her with a question she had feared since the day she first held him in her arms.

With the innocence that has followed him throughout his life, Harvey asked:

“Why doesn’t Dad come to see me?”

A short question.
A lifetime of heartbreak behind it.

💔 The Truth the Public Has Known — and the Son Who Is Only Now Beginning to See It

Harvey’s father, former Premier League player Dwight Yorke, has remained almost entirely absent since Harvey was an infant.
The public knows this story.
Katie has spoken about it for years — sometimes calmly, sometimes through tears — as she navigated parenthood alone while living under the most unforgiving spotlight in the UK.

But Harvey, who is autistic, partially blind, has septo-optic dysplasia, and lives with the rare genetic condition Prader–Willi syndrome, never fully understood the missing piece in his life.

Until this year.

The nation has watched Katie fight for him at every stage:

  • countless hospital stays

  • behavioural meltdowns

  • emergency medical decisions

  • education battles

  • therapy sessions

  • difficult nights when sleep simply wasn’t an option

Katie has been there for all of it — not as a celebrity, but as a mother who refused to let her son face the world alone.

And now Harvey, entering adulthood and surrounded by peers who freely talk about their fathers, is beginning to ask the questions she spent 22 years praying would never come.

💔 “How Do I Tell Him Something That Will Break His Heart?”

A friend close to the family revealed that Katie froze when Harvey asked his question — not because she didn’t know the answer, but because she knew the truth would wound him in a way she had tried to protect him from his entire life.

“She has spent decades shielding him from rejection,” the source shared.
“Her biggest fear has always been that he would feel unwanted.”

Katie has said publicly many times:

“The door has always been open for Dwight. It was his choice.”

But children eventually see the world for what it is.
They notice who shows up.
And who never does.

🧠 Harvey, Growing Older — and Growing Aware

For most of his life, Harvey accepted life as it came.
He asked about trains, frogs, football, food — simple joys.
He didn’t question the gaps that adults could see clearly.

But now, living in residential college, interacting with friends who talk about weekends with their fathers and families who visit regularly, Harvey has started looking for answers he never needed before.

And Katie knows she cannot avoid those questions forever.

How do you explain that sometimes love alone doesn’t make someone stay?
How do you tell a child — even a grown one — that a parent made a choice not to be present?
And how do you say it without breaking their heart… or your own?

❤️ A Mother Who Has Been Both Mum and Dad for 22 Years

When the public thinks of Katie Price, they may think of glamour shoots, TV headlines, or tabloid controversies.
But behind all that noise is a woman who has been:

  • nurse

  • carer

  • therapist

  • organiser

  • advocate

  • protector

  • and two parents in one

She has attended every appointment, signed every form, fought every battle, and loved fiercely in the moments when no one was watching.

Through exhaustion.
Through public judgement.
Through challenges most families will never understand.

Harvey never lacked love — because Katie carried double.

🤍 “Mum Has Always Been Here for You” — The Answer She Finally Gave

When Harvey finally asked the question she feared most, Katie stayed calm.
She didn’t blame.
She didn’t lie.
She didn’t lash out.

She told him the truth he could hold without breaking:

“Mum has always been here for you, and Mum always will be.”

Then gently, she explained that sometimes grown-ups don’t make the choices they should — and that none of it was his fault.

Harvey accepted her answer.
Katie held herself together until he went to bed.

And then, she cried.

Not because of Dwight Yorke.
Not because of the past.
But because she saw, in that brief moment, the one expression every single mother hopes never to see:

The quiet ache of a child realizing someone they love didn’t love them enough to stay.

🌍 A Private Pain With a Universal Echo

Katie’s story is large, messy, and played out publicly — but the emotions behind it are painfully common.

Across the UK, thousands of single parents face the same impossible conversation.
And thousands of children endure the same invisible question:

“Why didn’t my dad want to be in my life?”

Katie Price has been controversial, bold, outspoken, beloved, criticised…
But through every chapter, one truth has never changed:

She raised a son who never had to question her love —
even as he began to question someone else’s.

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