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Jack Fincham has revealed how he blew £1million on gambling as he battled drink and drug addictions for 14 years in a new interview on This Morning on Wednesday.
The TV personality, 32, laid everything bare as he candidly admitted he didn’t have ‘any regard for himself’ and would often put himself in danger by driving recklessly.
Jack soared to fame after winning Love Island in 2018 with then-girlfriend Dani Dyer. But while her career has gone from strength-to-strength, Jack’s life hasn’t quite followed on the same successful path.
He was recently bailed from jail over his dog attacking a runner and has since opened up on how his life has spiralled due to his addictions, which at one point saw him spent a whopping £40,000 in one day on online Blackjack.
Opening up in his first TV appearance since making the shocking admissions, Jack told hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard how he blew the cash and lifted the lid on how his drug, alcohol and gambling addictions took him down a dark path.
The reality star, who has been sober since Christmas Day, said: ‘It was awful. It always started out like you have a drink then take other drugs then I’d take others to go to sleep.
Jack Fincham has revealed how he blew £1million on gambling as he battled drink and drug addictions for 14 years in a new interview on This Morning
The TV personality, 32, laid everything bare as he candidly admitted he didn’t have ‘any regard for himself’ and would often put himself in danger by driving recklessly
‘It’s a cycle. I thought it wasnt a problem as I had a few days off in between but I then discovered an anxiety drug and became physically addicted to it and went to rehab.’
He continued: ‘I’ve wasted very close to £1million. I was driving recklessly, having no regard for myself.
‘I didn’t really care about myself. I’d end up crashing cars. It was all my fault, I am dealing with the consequences and now I want to set it straight.’
Jack added: ‘Before, things would go wrong or something bad would happen and I couldn’t handle it. I was always off drinking and taking drugs, it was masking- not dealing with the issues and problems that I had head on.
‘I thought I didn’t have a problem. From the age of 18 this has been an ongoing issue but unfortunately now since being on TV those mistakes are now public. They’re not stuff that you can deal with behind closed doors.
‘It’s stuff that I’ve done that now everyone knows about. It’s not something I could keep back.’
He explained that whether he became famous or not, he would still have struggled with these issues.
He told the presenters: ‘No matter how I ended up with money, this would have happened regardless, no matter what the scenario was.
‘Having money in abundance quite quickly accelerated it but this would have happened anyway. The amount of opportunities that I’ve messed up due to this but then would not confront it and actually say I’ve got a problem here.’
Jack explained that he’s lost countless opportunities due to ‘not turning up’ for booked appearances and being ‘unreliable’.
