Kerry Katona has jumped to her mother’s defence on Tuesday as she warned fans not to send her hate messages after opening up about her traumatic childhood.

Atomic Kitten star Kerry, 44, sat down with Paul C Brunson for the latest episode of his highly successful podcast We Need To Talk.

During her time with the relationship guru, recalled how she was raised not knowing who her real father was, only discovering her biological dad after his death.

She revealed how her mother had a number of short-lived relationships with men she was led to believe were her dad, with one being physically abusive and forcing her and her mum to go into witness protection.

Kerry admitted being put in ‘unspeakable situations’ as a child, that ‘no child should ever be in, ever’ as she described going through four sets of foster parents and living in a shelter, while her mum battled mental health issues and drug addiction.

Following the sad admission, Kerry has now urged her followers not to troll or send hateful messages to her mum Sue.

Kerry Katona has jumped to her mother’s defence on Tuesday as she warned fans not to send her hate messages after opening up about her difficult childhood

Atomic Kitten star Kerry, 44, sat down with Paul C Brunson for the latest episode of his highly successful podcast We Need To Talk where her upbringing with mum Sue was discussed 

Taking to Instagram, she thanked fans for their support as she said she was holding back tears, when she urged them to remember how her mum is now an ‘older lady’.

Kerry said: ‘It was a very, very long time ago and I love my mum dearly and my mum is not that person anymore, she’s a much older lady now.

‘So if anyone is thinking of sending her any messages hate, please don’t. Please don’t, we all make mistakes and my mum’s childhood was awful and it’s in the past and it’s made me who I am today.’

In a lengthy caption alongside her video, she added: ‘It’s been a heavy day its never easy to speak about heartache and hurt and even more so being able to admit publicly about all the mistakes I have made over the years but also the mistakes my mum has made, but these are very much in the past the past has been and gone.

‘Me and my mum are living in the present in the moment I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for my mum who I love with all my heart and always will for those who are sending negativity and mean comments towards my mum.

‘Please remember my mum is now a much older lady and not the woman she used to be it takes a lot to hold your hands up and take accountability for your mistakes which my mother has done and which I intern I’ve also done and every day each one of us including yourselves, we try and forgive ourselves for our mistakes just remember we all make them we’re all only human.

‘All we can do now is try and be the better version of who we was yesterday and once again, thank you all so so much for all your beautiful heartfelt wonderful comments.’ 

She added: ‘Positivity and blessings to everybody that’s all I ever want.’ 

Kerry revealed how her mother had a number of short-lived relationships with men she was led to believe were her dad, with one being physically abusive

Following the sad admission, Kerry has now urged her followers not to troll or send hateful messages to her mum Sue

Kerry said: ‘It was a very, very long time ago and I love my mum dearly and my mum is not that person anymore, she’s a much older lady now’

Kerry is currently dating personal trainer Paolo Magaglione, 33, and has reportedly moved him into her home just two months after they met on Celebs Go Dating.

Prior to this she was in a six and a half year relationship with fiancé Ryan Mahoney before they split at the end of last year.

She was reportedly planning to have a child with Ryan before they split.

Kerry has daughters Molly, 22 and Lilly, 20 with her ex husband Brian McFadden who she was married to from 2002–2006.

She is also mum to Heidi, 17, and Max, 15, with ex husband Mark Croft and eight-year-old DJ from her relationship with the late George Kay.

Speaking about her upbringing on We Need To Talk, Kerry said: ‘There were always fights.

Kerry told fans: ‘All we can do now is try and be the better version of who we was yesterday and once again, thank you all so so much for all your beautiful heartfelt wonderful comments’

Kerry ended up going into witness protection with her mother as they attempted to flee the abuse from her partner Dave, only to later find out he was her biological father

‘I mean, the things I saw my mum do I can’t even repeat because it’s so cruel. So cruel, some of the things I witnessed as a kid.’

She recalled one ex of her mother’s who she instantly felt uneasy around. 

Kerry explained: ‘I had to pretend, had to call him dad. And I just had this instant fear of Dave, instant fear of him, like terrified of him.

‘And I remember him walking in my bedroom – and the first time I met him, he just fell flat on his face, drunk. I knew I had to pretend and laugh, because I knew his aura. I could tell the kind of man he was going to be.

‘This one time, I’d be seven or eight, maybe eight – babysitting on stale ketchup butties, because my mum was going on the p**s for three days. And I used to go do shopping by myself…

‘But this one time I remember I was in bed, my mum had been out, and she came in and she sat next to me and said, “Dave asked me to marry him.”

‘I went, “Don’t do it, mum… He’s going to beat you. He’s really going to beat you up.” She went, “Kerry, 16 years, he’s never laid a finger on me.”

‘The next night, she came home, black and blue, and she had the side of a shotgun to her head.’

Reflecting on her childhood, she concluded: ‘The situations I’ve been put in as a child are, some of them are unspeakable. Some of them are so unspeakable that no child should ever be in, ever’

Kerry ended up going into witness protection with her mother as they attempted to flee the abuse.

‘We had to go into hiding,’ she explained. ‘And that’s when we got put… and I remember, because of who Dave was, and I remember the social services, or whoever it was who came to get us, like witness protection.

‘We had to go into hiding, and me mum had to dye her hair… and we ended up in Manchester in a refuge.

‘At one point, I couldn’t go to school in case Dave kidnapped me, so I had to get home schooled.’ 

It was later in life that she was told by a foster parent that Dave was in fact her biological father.

Reflecting on her childhood, she concluded: ‘The situations I’ve been put in as a child are, some of them are unspeakable. Some of them are so unspeakable that no child should ever be in, ever.’

Part one of Kerry Katona on We Need To Talk is out now. Part two will be released on September 9.