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Kerry Katona has a £3,000-a-week drug habit says close friend

Kerry angrily denies drug allegations but Leighton Ogden kept a diary during 2006...

7 March 2006

I bumped into Kerry and Mark in Reflex nightclub. I knew ‘Taxi Mark’, as we called him, because he used to deliver coke to my friends.

Even though Kerry told me a few weeks before that she never took drugs, she was doing more coke than you could imagine.

She was up for four days – she must’ve had up to 10g of coke and 10 pills. I saw her sniff 1g at once. She’d do 20 or 30 lines in an hour.

6 June

Kerry called to ask if I wanted to go to her barbecue. I said no, but she pleaded with me – she’d had a fit that morning and wanted someone there.

It looked like cocaine caused these fits, which happened pretty regularly, but it never stopped her. During the day, she must’ve had 4g and three or four Es.

I was getting worried. Her eyes were glazed over like she was going to have another fit. I told her not to take any more, but she screamed: ‘I’ll do what I f***ing want.’

1 July

Kerry called to say that Mark was out. She wanted me to come round. She’d been at the coke all day and was losing the plot.

She went upstairs and brought all these videos and DVDs down. She put on her and Brian’s wedding video and broke down, crying: ‘If Brian wanted me back, I’d do it – I still love him.’

September

We all went out to Belle Vue dog track for Kerry’s birthday. She knocked back champagne before moving on to double vodkas.

We got a coach back to her house and Kerry was sniffing coke in the bathroom.

Kerry’s the worst addict I’ve ever seen and she’ll never, ever admit she’s got a problem. I doubt even rehab can help her. It’ll be the death of her and that’s very sad.

Kerry’s lawyer David Price says: ‘The allegations about Kerry Katona are highly defamatory of our client and very wounding to her on a personal level. They’re also entirely untrue.’

Chris White

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