Kerry Katona escaped eviction last night after ex-manager Claire Powell paid her rent for another month.

However, the reality TV star – who once earned ­ £2million a year – is still financially in a “real mess”, according to PR guru and close friend Max Clifford.

Kerry had been having her £5,000-a-month rent on her Surrey home paid for by her management company Can Associates.

But last week Kerry was dumped by manager Claire after she reportedly lost patience with the star’s drinking and her wish to return to Warrington.

Kerry claimed she was going to be left homeless at 5pm last night.

However, at the 11th hour, Claire agreed to pay Kerry’s rent for one more month to allow the 30-year-old to have a chance of sorting herself out.

Max Clifford told This Morning: “Claire has done a very very good job for her management-wise and no, she wasn’t made homeless at 5pm yesterday.

“Conversations have gone on and Claire has agreed that the rent will be paid for another month to give her time to sort out where she’s got to go.

“Obviously her children are all in school down here and are all settled and doing very well down here so hopefully common sense will somehow come in to this, but financially she’s in a real mess with the bankrupts and the split-up in her management.”

He continued: “The bad news is that her finances are in a real mess. And the fact that her manager Claire and her partner have split up and she has somehow got caught up in the middle of that.

“The good thing is she came to see me last week, she’s looking really healthy, she’s really happy, she’s facing up to her problems, the kids are a joy to behold – as a little mum you can’t criticise her for what she’s done with no help from Brian McFadden and no help from Mark Croft, she’s done that on her own.

“She hasn’t taken drugs, she promises me, she had a drugs test in my office last week to show to everybody, so that’s the good news.”

On the split from Can, Max added: “The split basically is the split between Claire and her partner who ran Can Associates, so there was Neville on the TV side and Claire on the management side, so they’ve fallen out and she’s [Kerry] is in the middle.”

Source: Daily Mirror.