Katie Price has learned the truth about her fling with Gareth Gates 25 years later as he speaks in her documentary about their four month fling11:15, 24 Jun 2026Updated 11:15, 24 Jun 2026Katie Price says she's finally learned the truth about her fling with Gareth Gates - nearly 25 years after their romance hit the headlines.‌The former glamour model was 23 at pregnant with son Harvey while Pop Idol heartthrob Gareth was 17 when they enjoyed an unlikely relationship. Gareth initially denied anything happened when the story hit the press, but later admitted he did so because he wasn't sure how to handle the attention.‌In Katie's new Sky documentary, Gareth speaks about their romance - and Katie feels she now finally has the answers from him a quarter of a century later, after claiming that the singer 'ghosted' her.‌"Imagine meeting someone 25 years ago and then they sort of ghost you. You don't know why and then you go forward 25 years and then you get the answers," she said.‌"Because he had thought I'd done something which I didn't do and now, he finds out, it really wasn't me. The shock on his face and the shock on mine – everyone was like, 'You and Gareth, that was the one that got away!'"Last month, Gareth opened up at length about his fling with Katie. He said he became wary of trusting people after that, and that he was regularly asked about it - even now.Asked if he lost his virginity to her, as she claimed, he said: "No comment. I'll just say I was extremely inexperienced with a girl who was extremely experienced. I could see why she thought that. I haven't ever spoken about relationships. I believe that relationships are between two people and I couldn't believe that somebody else was selling stories about very, very intimate details.‌"And I was shocked and I learned a lot about that - about people and about the industry, and about trust I guess. I would never have ever done that to her or to anybody else, and so it was a real learning curve for me. I felt exactly the same at the time. And it was a shame because she's a really lovely girl. But I couldn't quite believe somebody would do that I guess."He added: "I became sort of very wary of trusting people after that because that was such a big thing on such a massive, massive scale - it was everywhere. It became the main thing in every interview. Everybody just wanted to know about that and not about my brand new album which I'd worked tirelessly on.‌"I was like, 'That's a shame I'm now having to talk about this when actually I just want to be an artist.' That was tough. It just kind of made me extremely wary of people in the industry I guess. You become very careful about what you text people, what you say to people. I was a boy at the time, I wasn't even an adult."In 2024, Katie spoke about it and said she was pregnant at the time they had sex."I took his virginity when I was six months pregnant. Just because I'm pregnant, don't say I can't have a boyfriend," she said.Article continues belowLike this story? For more of the latest showbiz news and gossip, follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Threads.