Peter Andre: 'I got death threats'

Peter Andre has revealed that he was the victim of death threats earlier in his career.

The 'Flava' singer told OK that he was targeted by abusive followers when he toured Australia in the mid-1990s.

Andre said: "In 1994 when I was supporting Bobby Brown in Sydney, I had 26 police there because they thought something was going to happen.

"I received letters like, 'I'm going to kill you', with symbolic lyrics of my songs written on them. I'd gone from being this golden boy to being this hate figure.

"I was getting death threats, people were texting me with my parents' address saying, 'Say goodbye to them'. It was horrendous."

Last year, Andre told the Daily Mail that the incidents contributed to a series of "crippling, terrifying" panic attacks, which led him to consider suicide.

"It got so extreme I was having up to 20 panic attacks a day. I couldn't cope. I couldn't work. I didn't know what to do. I ended up checking myself into a psychiatric ward in New York," he said.

"I spent two weeks there going to group therapy, talking to people. I was then discharged and put on seriously strong medication, which actually made me worse. It was a really bad time."