ALEX REID ON LIFE WITH KATIE, BIG BROTHER…AND HAVING THE CHANCE TO FIGHT ANDREW TATE

ALEX Reid says he felt “like a lamb to the slaughter” following his relationship with Katie Price.
Speaking exclusively to GB News, Alex, 47, said there were also times he “didn’t know what planet he was on” during their ill-fated marriage.
In a wide ranging interview the former MMA fighter also revealed how he was once offered the chance to fight Andrew Tate.
Opening up to Nigel Farage on Talking Pints about his life with Katie and his time in the ring, he told GB News: “I wasn’t really worried about brain damage when I was fighting because I wasn’t really getting hurt like that. I consider MMA mixed martial arts to be a lot safer than pugilism because you’re not sustaining the same damage to the head. You’ve got a 10 ounce glove in boxing so you could sustain more damage to the brain over a longer period, and it accumulates, which is not good.
“I got into martial arts because I was bullied. I wanted to defend the weak, and I got into it because someone very dear to me when she was young, was sexually abused.
“I wanted it to be a tough guy, the guy who went to beat all the bad guys up and so that’s why I got into martial arts. Ultimately I don’t want to hurt you, I just want to take you out and nullify the situation and in MMA I can do that.”
Revealing what it was like to appear in Celebrity Big Brother he continued: “You can’t comprehend it. I’ve been in the entertainment industry for many years. I’ve done lots of films. But then all of a sudden, I was stratospheric everywhere, because of my relationship with a certain person. At the time I was hated. And I hated it. Because all the bad press with her followed me. I never wanted to be famous for being famous. I had a mind coach for my fights, but I used them for this fight, with the media, and with myself. They said to me, ‘you’ve got to go in there (Big Brother), you’ve got to show the real you’. But it was tough, yeah.”
On his marriage to Katie he said: “I was just swept away with it. I didn’t know what planet I was on. I was like a lamb to the slaughter.”
Revealing how he once had the opportunity to fight Andrew Tate he said: “I was offered the chance to fight him at one point, which sounds crazy now. He’s a bit younger than me. With what’s going on with them, the accusations against them are very serious. I got into martial arts to protect someone close to me, so if that’s true what they are being accused of, then I’m the first one that wants to go and bash them. But I do wonder, why were the media there when they did the bust?”
Meanwhile Alex also revealed how being diagnosed with autism was a turning point.
“It was actually a relief,” he said. “It wasn’t a case of thinking ‘oh, poor me’. I mean, it actually put some pieces together. It made sense, so it was helpful.”