Katie Value revealed she was raped throughout a horrifying carjacking in South Africa in 2018 as she spoke forward of her harrowing documentary Trauma And Me.
Talking in an interview with MailOnline, the media persona, 44, recalled the terrifying ordeal which noticed her held at gunpoint throughout filming for her Quest Purple actuality present, My Loopy Life with ITV.
She detailed the traumatic occasions that led her to achieve breaking level, struggling a psychological breakdown in 2018, and a failed suicide try the place she ‘knocked herself out and had black eyes’ – after which she sought therapy for PTSD.
Terrible: Katie Value revealed she was raped throughout a horrifying carjacking in South Africa in 2018 as she spoke forward of her harrowing documentary Trauma And Me
Forward of the Channel 4 programme, which was filmed throughout the aftermath of final 12 months’s automotive accident, Katie spoke of her triggers and struggling within the lead as much as the crash.
She mentioned: ‘The expertise once I was filming with ITV in South Africa, we had no safety, if we had safety they’d have been capable of cope with the six guys that jumped us, held me at gunpoint and raped me.’
Katie was thrown out of the car by the attackers, throughout her journey from Johannesburg to Swaziland in two folks carriers with the manufacturing crew.
Aftermath: Talking in an interview with MailOnline, the media persona, 44, recalled the terrifying ordeal which noticed her held at gunpoint throughout filming for her Quest Purple actuality present, My Loopy Life with ITV
Transferring ahead: She detailed the traumatic occasions that led her to achieve breaking level and search therapy for PTSD, in a candid dialogue about psychological sickness
Onscreen: The autos had been ransacked of laptops, iPads, passports, money and jewelry – however the robbers left behind a fortune in digital camera gear which the crew had saved on board – with the incident documented on the present (pictured)
The autos had been ransacked of laptops, iPads, passports, money and jewelry – however the robbers left behind a fortune in digital camera gear which the crew had saved on board. The attackers had been by no means apprehended.
Katie first mentioned her harrowing expertise throughout an episode of Channel 4’s SAS: Celeb Who Dares Wins in 2020, the place she mentioned: ‘Police mentioned it was a miracle they didn’t kill us.’
Throughout her new Channel 4 present, she candidly revealed: ‘I hit extreme melancholy a few years in the past, melancholy on prime of PTSD, I used to be suicidal, didn’t need to be right here. I attempted to kill myself.
‘I knocked myself out and had black eyes. I had bruises round my neck. I wakened. I didn’t need to be right here.’
Accident: Talking in regards to the darkish place she skilled along with her psychological well being on the time of final 12 months’s horrific drink-drive crash, Katie defined: ‘I let myself down’
Her stays at The Priory rehab clinic have been to deal with her publish traumatic stress dysfunction as she additionally added that by means of remedy she has learnt to cope with her previous and recognise what triggers her.
Katie detailed: ‘I’ve had my eyes opened about so much. Once you go in The Priory, folks assume that it should be for drinks or medication. I’ve by no means ever been in The Priory for drink, medication or habit. I’ve been within the priory for trauma rehabilitation for PTSD.’
She continued: ‘Due to what folks consider, it impacts me. There’s a stigma that when you go in The Priory, you’re a improper ‘un [one], however that’s not true. I believe individuals who go in there are courageous as a result of they’re going through their demons and no matter their issues are to make themselves a greater individual.
‘Psychological well being it doesn’t matter how large or how small that my appear, if it’s large to somebody then it’s large to them. It’s simply totally different. Something can occur.’
She added: ‘I believe individuals who go in there are courageous as a result of they’re going through their demons and no matter their issues are to make themselves a greater individual’
Talking in regards to the darkish place she skilled along with her psychological well being on the time of final 12 months’s horrific drink-drive crash, Katie defined: ‘I reside within the countryside, I had no outlet, I wanted to speak to somebody and that evening I let myself down.’
‘I’m not justifying something, there was a purpose why I acquired within the automotive and why my head was like that.
‘Sadly, I did get into that place. I might by no means get into that place once more. It occurred and it’s actual however I’ve learnt.’
The previous glamour mannequin, who nonetheless goes to remedy, mentioned: ‘I may be 44 now and have remedy every week, however I want I might have performed this years in the past. It will have stopped a number of issues that I may need mentioned or reacted to.
‘I’ve to just accept [certain situations] and never chunk again to something anymore.
‘It’s laborious for me to say as a result of I don’t need to sound bitter and I’m not bitter. I communicate to my therapist now about my conditions.’
As she offers along with her PTSD and previous trauma, Katie continued: ‘I really feel like I’ve to guard myself. I don’t put something on Instagram anymore. I don’t must justify myself anymore. I don’t owe something to anybody.
‘I don’t go on Instagram anymore and say, “Effectively that is improper,” it crosses my thoughts after which I countdown, and by the point I’m at zero, I’m identical to “Oh overlook it.”
‘I really feel higher and I really feel stronger for that. I don’t must rectify or show something to anybody. I do know the reality. I’ve grown up!’
In her newest documentary, Katie discusses what brought on her psychological well being to deteriorate and the step’s that she is taking in her restoration.
‘There’s so much within the programme however there’s a hell of so much I haven’t put in there, it’s solely 45 minutes however there is sufficient to know that I’ve been struggling,’ she mentioned.
MailOnline has contacted representatives for ITV and Quest Purple.
Katie Value: Trauma And Me airs on September eighth at 9PM on Channel 4.
Studying: The previous glamour mannequin, who nonetheless goes to remedy, mentioned: ‘I may be 44 now and have remedy every week, however I want I might have performed this years in the past’
