Kerry Katona has expressed her “relief” following ex-husband George Kay’s death.
“George couldn’t be saved. He was always going to die,” she told The Mirror.
The former couple share one child together, fiver-year-old DJ. George died suddenly of a suspected drug overdose earlier this month.
The former rugby league player passed away aged 39, and is reported to have a history of issues with drugs.
“To be honest it’s almost a relief he died when he did, when DJ is at this age,” Kerry told the paper.
“This way DJ is saved from having to grow up witnessing all the psychotic episodes he would have had. You have to remember the hell he put us through. If he hadn’t have died, it would’ve been me.”
“My mum says she was just waiting for the call from the police to say he’d killed me. And I know myself, I’d never have been able to relax unless he was either back in jail or dead.”
“Now he’s dead, there’s a sense of relief.”
Explaining her experiences with George to the paper, she said:
”He’d come into the house, off his head hallucinating and get a knife, while the children were there.”
“He would steal my credit card to buy me gifts, and then threaten to stab me in the head. The police came out to my house 22 times.”
