Their decade-long relationship has always been fiery, but after healing their rift last year Kerry Katona has turned to Katie Price for support as she admits her one-year marriage to George Kay is in trouble.
Mum-of-five Kerry, 35 – who has already been divorced twice - kicked George out of the family home in July, but reconciled after he admitted he’d turned to booze to cope after he was affected by a Bell’s Pallsy – a condition that left half of his face paralysed.
George, father to Kerry's youngest child DJ, recently admitted: “I wasn’t a nice person to live with.”
Insiders say that Katie – who has been divorced twice and went through her own marriage troubles last year when she discovered husband Kieran had cheated with her best friend, is the only person Kerry feels she can open up to.
“They both have kids from three sets of fathers and have gone through hell and back because of the men in their lives.
Katie’s the one person who Kerry says doesn’t judge her. She’s helping her make it right.”
Read the full story in this week’s Closer magazine.