Kerry Katona’s estranged husband is skint after blowing her multi-million pound fortune.

Mark Croft, now trying to start again with a slot machine business, showed not a trace of guilt as he admitted: “Yes, I’ve spent Kerry’s millions.

“And I don’t miss a penny of it – or feel any regret about how our marriage failed

“All I want now is to see my kids. Without them, my life isn’t worth living. But as for Kerry – she’s dead to me now.”

Ex-cabbie Croft, father to Kerry’s children Heidi, three, and Max, two, is reduced to dossing on mates’ sofas and living on beans on toast and cheap cereal.

He cannot afford to pay any rent after moving out of the couple’s luxury £1.5million Cheshire mansion.

He decided to speak out after the ex-Atomic Kitten singer, 29, rubbished their stormy four-year marriage. She claimed: “Our relationship was just about coke. I had to stop. I had to get out.”

Choosing his words carefully, Mark, 38, said: “Since we split I’ve hardly seen my kids.

“Kerry’s now moving South to start a new life with them. But what say have I had in it? I’ll tell you, f***-all.

Fight
“I’m no saint. I’ve done drugs, booze, wasted her fortune, you name it. But the one thing I am not is a s*** dad.

“I’m skint, which is entirely my own fault. But I’ll fight Kerry tooth and nail over the only thing that matters to me now – my children. God knows where I’ll find the money. But mark my words, I will.

“I now face a four-hour drive each way every other weekend down to some poncey part of Sussex, where Kerry and her new advisors have decided she can ‘reinvent herself’. What a joke! She’s reinvented herself more times than Dr Who.

“Kerry doesn’t know anyone down there. All her friends are up here in Warrington, her home town. If she sees a field she gets withdrawal symptoms from the city. She’ll go out of her head with loneliness and boredom watching the sheep, cows and birds all day.

“People think they can control Kerry and change her – but no one can. She’s her own person and does whatever she wants.

“Living in the country will bore her stupid. I’ll give it a month before she’s back up North, surrounded by all her old friends.

“Although Heidi and Max are still very young they also have their own friends and family around them up here. But now they’re being snatched away from everyone they know.

“I read she thinks I am a good dad. If that’s the case, why is she moving them to the other end of the country? “Now I’m going to have to scrape together some cash from somewhere to buy a people carrier to get down there.

“I gave her the last of my cash, £10,000, to buy a BMW X5 to ferry the kids around.

“But did I get a thank you? Of course not.”

Mark readily admits that, with Kerry’s knowledge, he helped her plough through an estimated £6.8 million fortune.

Thousands went on a fleet of luxury cars, superbikes, exotic holidays and a joint £300-a-week cocaine habit.

Recent reports suggested he was now sharing a flat with his new girlfriend, barmaid Sharon Thorpe, 30. But Mark flatly denies this.

Luxuries
He said: “Luckily, I’ve some good mates who have stood by me. In my old life, our home was full of luxuries.

“We probably spent over £15,000 on the latest flat screen TVs, home cinema and stereo systems. But now I don’t even own a black and white TV or a portable radio.

“I’m living on beans on toast and cheap cereal and counting every penny. But I’m not looking for sympathy from anyone.

“Yes, I’ve been an idiot. But I am trying to do the right thing for my kids.

“I’ve set up this fruit machine delivery business. I used what little cash I had left before splitting from Kerry to pay for a couple of vans and a couple of lads to help me out. I don’t want people reading this thinking I’m feeling sorry for myself – far from it. I’ve been a t**, I know I have. But what is the point of regrets now? “What hacks me off though is that everyone thinks it was me alone who was responsible for blowing Kerry’s cash.

“You only had to open her wardrobe to see the 90 pair of shoes she bought but hardly wore. Some of them cost up to £600 a pair.

“When my birthday came round, most husbands might get a bottle of aftershave or a shirt. I’d get an £11,000 superbike or a £100,000 sports car.

“Of course I wasn’t going to turn around and say, ‘No, take them back to the showroom”. What man in his right mind would?” Kerry was declared bankrupt in 2008 and later lost her £130,000 advertising contract with Iceland after being caught snorting cocaine in her bathbeans room. She claimed she walked out on their marriage three months ago to save herself from her destructive drugs lifestyle.

Mark says it was he who dumped Kerry after an alleged romance with her personal trainer Kevin Green – which Kerry firmly denies despite admitting kissing him.

Mark insisted: “I’ve never cheated on Kerry, despite what people are saying.

“Yes, I got a bit flirty with a couple of lap dancers a while back in Spain while I was at a low ebb. Kerry thought I f***** them – but I swear on my kids’ lives I didn’t.

“Yes things got out of hand but no sex took place.”

“To be honest, I’m just glad to be out of the whole circus for good. The only thing that concerns me now is for the future of my kids.

“Before all I was interested in was the latest boys’ toy or exotic holiday. What people forget is that I helped Kerry earn a lot of her fortune because we used to split the money from advertising and magazine deals.”

Mark, who has two other children from previous relationships, was upset by Kerry’s claims that the pair would lock themselves away for three-day coke benders while the nanny looked after their kids. He said: “Look, I’m no saint and nor is Kerry. But three-day benders? Are you having a laugh? “We’ve had some all-night sessions together but nothing like what Kerry has claimed.

“I’m not proud of our behaviour, it hardly paints us as caring responsible parents. But you can’t erase your past.”

Dream
Mark and heavily-pregnant Kerry wed on Valentine’s Day 2007, in a low-key ceremony at Gretna Green, Scotland.

Kerry, who won I’m A Celebrity in 2004, was previously married to ex-Westlife singer Brian McFadden and had two daughters with him – Molly, now eight, and Lilly-Sue,seven.

Their marriage collapsed after three years.” She recently admitted: “I’m going to work my backside off to make a life again for my kids. My dream was never to be rich or famous. It was to be part of a family with kids doing homework at the kitchen table and a lovely husband.

“That’s what I want. That’s what I’m aiming for.”

Meanwhile, Mark fumed about Kerry’s “leaving the North’ party to which she took their children on Friday.

He said: “Seeing pictures of Kerry with Max and Heidi celebrating moving away from their father makes me sick.

“At the end of the day I did really love her but all that has gone now.

“I feel as though everyone has turned against me now.

“I’m still their father. People think, ‘It’s only Mark Croft, he doesn’t give a s***.’ But I really do. I just hope Kerry realises that.”

He added: “I came from nothing and am happy to go back to nothing. It’s as simple as that. If people don’t like it, tough.”

Source: The People