Legal experts have questioned how Katie Price has travelled to the US just weeks after admitting in court that she had taken cocaine while pleading guilty to drink-driving charges.
Katie, 43 arrived in Las Vegas on Wednesday with her fiancé Carl Woods, 32, where they plan to marry.
Just six weeks earlier on 29 September, Katie pleaded guilty at Crawley Magistrates' Court to three charges of drink driving, driving whilst disqualified and driving without insurance after she flipped her car following an all-night alcohol and cocaine bender.
Prosecutors dropped a drug-driving charge in light of her guilty drink-driving plea, but magistrates were told that a drugs test gave a positive reading for cocaine.
Katie, from Horsham, West Sussex, who was already banned from driving, flipped her car on a country road at 6.20am near West Grinstead, close to her home.
After the hearing, she checked into The Priory rehab clinic and only left earlier this week as she headed to the US.
Katie Price, 43 arrived in Las Vegas on Wednesday with her fiancé Carl Woods (pictured together), 32, where they plan to marry
American immigration lawyers based in the UK told MailOnline that they are 'mystified' as to how she was able to travel to the US given the fact that she admitted to taking illict drugs.
Following the crash, Katie told police: 'I was just going to my friend's house. I know I shouldn't. I've been banned four times. I took drugs. I should not be driving. I admit it all.'
Most travellers to the US apply through ESTA, an automated system that determines the eligibility of visitors to the country and does not require them to get a visa.
But those who are convicted of drug offences or simply admit to consuming them, either during a court appearance or following a high-profile incident are automatically prevented from ESTA and are forced to apply for a visa, which can take anything up to two years, because of a COVID backlog.
Kaitlin Davies (pictured) is a lawyer for London-based firm DaviesLegal, which specialises in US immigration law
Kaitlin Davies, a lawyer for London-based firm DaviesLegal, which specialises in US immigration law said: 'Her case was at the end of September and it would be near impossible for Price to get to the US this quickly by applying for an ESTA.
'You don't have to disclose a driving under the
