I’m going to say the thing everyone is thinking but wrapping in sympathy and hashtags.

Katie Price does not have bad luck with men.

She has a pattern.

Four husbands. Numerous engagements. A rotating cast of men who are either completely unsuitable, allegedly fraudulent, publicly humiliating, or all three. And every time the cycle ends, the narrative resets. Poor Katie. Another one. She deserves better.

She does deserve better. That part is true.

But deserving better and choosing better are two entirely different things. And until someone says that out loud, nothing changes.

Here is what the psychology actually looks like.

Someone who grew up learning that love is chaotic, conditional or comes with a cost will seek that same chaos in adulthood. Not because they want to be hurt. Because chaos feels like home. Calm feels boring. Safe feels suspicious. The man who is too available, too stable, too straightforward gets overlooked. The man who is exciting, unpredictable, slightly out of reach — that is the one who triggers the attachment.

Katie herself said it. “She loves the excitement of the chase and being chased. She craves the dopamine rush. She’s a self-confessed addict to anything that gives her a rush and instant gratification.”

That is not a personality quirk. That is a trauma response with a byline.

And Lee Andrews was the perfect storm. Married after ten days. Based in Dubai. Barely present in the UK. Claiming a £36 million empire. Mysterious. Unavailable. A man who needed saving or believing in or defending.

The media calls it a whirlwind romance. Psychologists call it a trauma bond forming at speed.

Nobody is saying Katie is stupid. She is not stupid. She is unhealed. And unhealed people do not need more sympathy. They need someone to hold up a mirror.

The pattern will not stop until she looks at it directly.

Not at Lee. Not at the next one. At herself.

That is the uncomfortable truth nobody in her circle is telling her. And it is the one that could actually change something.

Sophie Lewis | The Indie Leaks