Katie Price has admitted that her terminally ill mum ‘hasn’t got long to live’ amid her lengthy battle with an incurable lung condition.
The former glamour model, 42, said she’s ‘heartbroken’ to see her mum’s condition deteriorate after she was seen needing oxygen to help her breathe during a Facetime call.
But despite her declining health, Amy, 66, has vowed she ‘hasn’t given up yet’ in her battle with the lung condition idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which causes the build-up of scar tissue in the lungs.
Worrying: Katie Price, 42, has revealed that her terminally ill mum ‘hasn’t got long to live’ amid her lengthy battle with an incurable lung condition
In her latest film for the Channel 4 series Steph’s Packed Lunch, Katie investigates how those suffering from incurable diseases can still embrace life to the fullest.
The star was herself unable to visit Amy for many months as she’d been shielding during the Covid pandemic.
Discussing her mum, Katie says: ‘My mum is my absolute rock, my absolute best friend and to be told she’s got an incurable breathing disease breaks my heart. Sadly, she hasn’t got long left to live.’
Scary: The former glamour model said she’s ‘heartbroken’ to see her mum’s condition deteriorate after she was seen needing oxygen in a film for Steph’s Packed Lunch
Sad: Discussing her mum, Katie says: ‘My mum is my absolute rock, my absolute best friend and to be told she’s got an incurable breathing disease breaks my heart’
The film then shows the star on a video call with her mum Amy, who needed help from an oxygen supply as her health continues to deteriorate.
She tells her daughter: ‘I haven’t given up yet. I’ve got to accept the fact that I know I’m going to deteriorate,’ before starting to cough.
Katie urges her mum: ‘Turn your oxygen up’ but her mum insists: ‘I’ll be all right in a minute.’
The mother-of-five then adds: ‘It’s because you don’t want to turn it up. That’s why – you don’t want to rely on it.’
‘I haven’t given up!’ The film then shows the star on a video call with her mum Amy, who needed help from an oxygen supply as her health continues to deteriorate
Concerning: She tells her daughter: ‘I haven’t given up yet. I’ve got to accept the fact that I know I’m going to deteriorate,’ before starting to cough
Katie also meets a mindset coach for help with how to balance the grief she is feeling with the enthusiasm she needs to live life to the fullest with her mum.
The star also meets with 33-year-old Nicky Newman who has terminal cancer, to find out how she is embracing the time she has left.
Reflecting on her mum’s health battles, Katie says: ‘What I’ve learned from today is to spend as much time as I can with my mum.
‘You’ve just got to take each day as it is, build as many memories, don’t have regrets and just be happy.’
Declining health: Katie also meets a mindset coach for help with how to balance the grief she is feeling with the enthusiasm she needs to live life to the fullest with her mum
It comes after Katie vowed that she will continue to care for her mum as her health declines, adding Amy isn’t ‘giving in without a fight’ as she’s joined a choir to help open her organs.
The reality star told The Sunday Times Magazine: ‘She puts on a massive show of strength but her illness is slowing her down. She has joined a choir to open up her lungs. She’s not giving in without a fight.
‘We’ve both got tough exteriors, neither of us show anyone what’s going on inside. Because we know we’re losing Mum, nothing goes unsaid. I know everything about her and she knows everything about me.
‘I miss holding her and giving her a cuddle, but there’s a lot of banter on our family Zooms too, because if we didn’t muck about we’d never get through it. She knows that out of everyone, I’ll be the one who cares for her at the end.’
‘I know everything about her’: It comes after Katie vowed that she will continue to care for her mum as her health declines, adding Amy isn’t ‘giving in without a fight’
The TV star revealed Amy is struggling to breathe earlier this year, after she was diagnosed with IPF in 2017.
During an interview on BBC Northern Ireland’s Nolan Live, the TV star said: ‘My mum doesn’t smoke, she’s always been so healthy and she’s got this incurable lung disease and there’s nothing you can do.
‘So the British Lung Foundation, she got us in touch with them to talk to other people and they just said, ”Build memories, take lots of pictures” and that’s all you can do really. What else can you do? You know it’s coming.
‘She’s only got like 32 per cent left of her lung capacity, we have got 100 per cent, she’s got 32.
‘So if you imagine now being that out of breath, it must be awful, and it’s an awful way to go. It’s horrible to see my mum go through it because she’s so active, it’s cruel.’
During a recent appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain with her daughter, Amy said she’s in her ‘last couple of years’.
She said at the time: ‘What with COVID and everything, if I catch a cold or COVID there’s just no hope, so that would be the end of it for me.
‘But positively, I’m hoping, I’m pushing to see if I can get on the transplant list, because there is no cure and there’s nothing else they can do for me really.
‘With the transplant my age is against me, because the results are not that good as you get older.’
When Amy was first diagnosed with IPF, she was given a three to five year life expectancy by doctors.
In recent months, she has been shielding from her family to protect herself during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Katie only able to see her mum through the window.
The pair were able to see each other in October alongside Katie’s half-sister Sophie, after they passed a coronavirus test so they knew they were safe to see Amy on her birthday.
Watch the full film on Steph’s Packed Lunch on Channel 4 from 12.30pm on Wednesday 14th April.
Hard: Amy has been shielding from her family to protect herself during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Katie only able to see her mum through the window (pictured in 2020)