Alex Reid has added further gasoline to the fire by revealing how he felt like a ‘lamb to the slaughter’ after marrying Katie Price. Since the breakup of their marriage more than a decade ago, they have had a turbulent relationship, and now Alex Reid has thrown fuel to the fire by expressing how he felt.
First encounter shortly after Katie, now 44, divorced Peter Andre, then 49, after the couple had been together for seven months. The glamour model and MMA fighter had wed in 2010 but divorced a year later.
Katie wrote in a lengthy statement that was made public at the time that they had been married ‘too hastily’ and that she considered it a’mistake.’
She went on to explain that their problems “were not helped” by Alex “getting more intrigued by life in the media eye,” and she also said that he had “changed” from the man she had fallen in love with. Both of these statements are true.
Now, Alex, who is 47 years old, has said that the fact that he was in that relationship put him into the spotlight in a way for which he had not adequately prepared himself.
Before he started dating Katie, Alex had a career in show business as a mixed martial arts fighter, had a role in the British soap opera Hollyoaks, and had a body double role in the film Saving Private Ryan. However, he became a household celebrity after his romantic life started making headlines.

‘All of a sudden I’m stratospheric everywhere because of my relationship with a certain person. I’m everywhere,’ he said while speaking to Nigel Farage on GB News on Monday.
He added that he ‘genuinely felt hated’ because of the ‘bad press’ that came from being in a relationship with Katie, who he avoided referring to by name throughout the interview.
‘The bad press that followed with her followed me,’ he said.
He also added that: ‘I never wanted to be famous for being famous.’
However, Alex said he was ‘swept away with it’.
‘I didn’t know what planet I was on. I was like a lamb to the slaughter,’ he said.
Nigel commented: ‘The marriage didn’t last that long. You’ve been going through, from what I can see of it, eight or nine years of legal action of name calling back and forth with her.’
As Alex previously mentioned, there were several topics that he was legally unable to discuss due to ongoing legal actions.
After reportedly releasing sex tape footage of Alex to a studio audience in 2019, Katie was sentenced to pay Alex £140,000 in legal fees. This was done in response to Katie’s actions.
During the production of an episode of Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit On The Side in 2018, she was accused of presenting a sexually explicit video footage of Alex to an audience in the television studio that was not captured on camera.
In addition to this, a five-year injunction was issued against her that prohibited her from disclosing any confidential information regarding their relationship.
Following their breakup, Alex began a relationship with fellow Big Brother winner Chantelle Houghton, who would later become the mother of his daughter Dolly. However, the couple would eventually end their relationship in 2012.
The previous year, he and his fiancee, Nikki Manashe, became parents to a daughter named Anastasia.
Katie later wed Kieran Haylor, however the couple split the following year in 2019.
After he accused her of having an affair a month ago, their relationship came to an end, despite the fact that she was engaged to Carl Woods.