Katie Price has begged cruel online trolls to stop targeting her son Harvey.
Katie and Harvey Price
The former glamour model has revealed that she is desperate to shield her 18-year-old son – who has septo-optic dysplasia, which causes blindness and growth hormone deficiency, Prader-Willi syndrome, ADHD and autism – from online bullying and warned that it needs to stop.
Katie said: "It has to stop. It doesn't just happen with Harvey, it happens with everyone. Whether you're an MP, a doctor, if you're gay, straight, your race, anything – people are just trolling and it's getting out of hand.
"That's why I'm still continuing with Harvey's Law to make online abuse a criminal offence."
The 42-year-old star admits that she is relieved that Harvey can't understand the abuse as she would fear for his welfare otherwise.
She told the All About Autism podcast: "If Harvey knew, if he was a person that could understand it, you can understand why people would commit suicide and stuff.
"Luckily for Harvey he doesn't understand it, but I do. I will do everything I can to protect him. This is the thing, trolling cruel suicide, trolling causes mental health. It's got to stop. I do blame a lot of these social media sites."
Katie recently confessed that she hopes that she isn't outlived by her son.
She said: "I wish he would go before me. Not because I want him to die, but you talk to any mother and they worry about who will look after their disabled child when they are gone.
"He wouldn’t understand why I wasn’t there and it would break his heart. No one would cuddle him like me. No one would kiss him.
"The thought of him dying of a little broken heart would be awful."
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