Katie Price’s mum reveals why ‘womaniser’ Dwight Yorke will always be her favourite among the men her daughter has dated
KATIE Price and footballer Dwight York dated briefly in 2001 but their relationship changed the model's life forever.
During their short romance Katie became pregnant with son Harvey, with Dwight initially denying he was the boy's father.
But today, Katie’s mum Amy Price reveals that Dwight will always be her favourite of the men her daughter has dated because he gave the family Harvey.
It is the latest revelation from her book The Last Word, serialised exclusively in The Sun.
Amy, 70, who needed a transplant late last year after developing a fatal lung condition, is telling her story because she fears she does not have much time left.
When Kate told me she was dating Manchester United footballer Dwight Yorke, my heart sank.
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He had a reputation as a womaniser.
But of all the men Kate has dated in her life, Dwight will – perhaps surprisingly – always be my favourite because he gifted us this incredible child.
Kate initially thought about having an abortion and visited a clinic three times, but simply couldn’t go through with it.
Dwight did agree to attend scans and classes with her, only then to not show up.
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He told her his mates thought she was keeping the baby just to get his money.
She has certainly proved them all wrong on that.
While she was pregnant, Kate refused to give up on Dwight and the dream that he might eventually settle down with her and their baby.
One night she heard he was in London and went searching for him, but he didn’t want to know. I felt so sorry for her when she returned home, deflated.
But all this paled into insignificance when she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, who she named Harvey Daniel Price.
Kate called Dwight to inform him of the impending birth, and he made it to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton just in time to see her in the final stages of labour.
After Harvey had been cleaned up, Dwight, Kate and their beautiful baby boy spent over an hour together, looking like a happy family.
He seemed over the moon and was clearly delighted as he came out of the room with Harvey in his arms.
Dwight continued to see his son and he and Kate went to register Harvey’s birth together.
But on the way there Dwight took a call from his agent telling him not to go ahead because they wanted Harvey to take a DNA test to make sure that Dwight was the father, because Harvey was so pale.
What should have been a lovely memory was spoiled by this cynicism.
It seemed Dwight was having his life run by other people, and I suspect this has been the case for years.
Despite this, Dwight did visit Kate and Harvey once a week to get to know his little boy.
Harvey was diagnosed with a rare condition called septo-optic dysplasia – a disorder of early brain development which, among other things, affects how our body’s hormones are produced.
As he got older, his needs became more complex.
First it was his eyesight, then hearing, moods, eating habits, lack of speech and lack of emotions.
This would later be compounded with a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and pathological demand avoidance.
Almost overnight, we had to adapt our whole lives to him.
Deep down, Kate was devastated by Harvey’s diagnosis but she adored him and rather than hide him away, she set out on a mission to persuade the entire world to love him as much as she did.
In 2002, when Harvey was about three months, I went on a work trip to Los Angeles with Kate.
As far as I was concerned, the main reason for taking Harvey on this trip was so he could see an endocrine specialist we had heard about.
As usual, Kate was doing it her way, though, so she invited the cameras.
Kate had the opposite attitude to me about her son’s visibility in the media. Her attitude was, why hide him away because he is disabled?
Kate had been invited to meet Hugh Hefner, which was a big deal for her career.
While I checked in Downtown LA with Harvey, she accepted Hefner’s invitation to stay at the Playboy Mansion.
One morning, I was woken up at 1am to a knock on my hotel door.
When I opened it, I found Hugh Hefner with eight of his bunnies – including my daughter – standing on the other side.
Hefner told me: “You know, your daughter is a very naughty girl, don’t you?” and before I knew it, Kate was snapping a photo of me and Harvey with Hugh and the other bunny girls.
I know my daughter and at this particular moment she was a proud mum wanting to show off her child.
But – on reflection – that was when I sensed the boundaries around her and our family’s private life were collapsing, and I didn’t like it.
Despite our differences in opinion around Harvey’s public image, I couldn’t deny Kate was absolutely marvellous with her son.
With my help, she began fighting for Harvey from day one.
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She also had to deal with cruel headlines which insinuated her party lifestyle had somehow caused Harvey’s disabilities.
Nothing Kate did could have caused these conditions, they are genetic."
