Katie Price has maintained that she has requested to go to prison, but she believes it would not be fair for taxpayers.
The 45-year-old former model, who has been declared bankrupt for a second time, was fined £880 last week for driving a Range Rover in August 2023 without a license or insurance.
She also got eight penalty points, totaling 11, and was ordered to pay an extra £972 in costs. Tory MP James Wild has suggested that she should be imprisoned after a series of driving convictions.
Speaking on The Katie Price Show, she responded: ‘There’s a member of parliament who wants me off the road. I’m not even driving at the moment. And about all this driving stuff.
‘I don’t talk about it here, but there is a lot of unfair treatment around that as well. Every day people face bankruptcy. I am paying it off, and I am paying it off.
‘I don’t want to hear some MP is trying to get me in prison. That’s good for taxpayers, right? What would they gain with me in prison?
‘It would cost them more money to put me in prison than not. I have requested to go to prison, but they won’t do it, so what do they want to do?’
Mr Wild has argued that sentencing guidelines for driving offenses need to be revised to ensure that ‘repeat driving offenders’ receive ‘maximum sentences for reckless behavior’.
At present, driving without insurance and without a license can result in fines, penalty points, and a possible driving ban, but neither is punishable by imprisonment.
Meanwhile, Katie has also talked about her bankruptcy, which she discovered on air, and stated ‘the court proceedings are noise in my head’.
‘What doesn’t help, what I’m tired of reading, “Yes Katie Price is bankrupt”. Every day people face bankruptcy,’ she said.
‘We all know I’m in bankruptcy. I don’t need to read it and hear it and have it thrown in my face. It’s not nice, it’s mentally damaging.
‘And when it says the reasons I can’t go to court, mentally – I don’t have to keep reading about it every day.’
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While discussing the situation on her podcast, she advised people to stop discussing the situation as she tries to ‘move on’ with her own life.
She added: ‘Just leave me alone. I’m trying to move on with my life. And it just brings up a bad period of my breakdown for why I got in that situation.
‘If I don’t work, no one else will. So, we keep going to The Priory a lot… to keep my head sane to focus on things.’
