Jack Fincham has revealed he “went missing for a week in Dubai” at the height of his drug addiction.
The Love Island star is now eight months sober, after turning his life around.
The reality star admitted that when at his lowest point he went missing for a week straight.
At the time he had just signed a professional boxing contract, and was flown out to Dubai for a fight.
Jack told Amber O’Donnell at Crypto Fight Week: “After the fight my family came out to see me, they flew all the way to Dubai to come and see me.”
“You know my brother was there, my trainers, I went missing for a week after. Out drinking, not caring about anyone apart from myself.”
“And it’s not that I’m a selfish person it’s that I didn’t have any respect for myself.”
The Love Island star continued: “It’s like my brain wasn’t working right, it was like, ‘you’ve done that, so you can do this and before I knew it I had ruined everyone else’s holiday, let myself down, and fell straight back into the cycle that I had been in before that fight.”
“When I’m talking lows, I mean I had to borrow a score off my mum just to get about.”
“I had won one of the biggest shows in England, I had boxed on my actual hero’s card, but I had squandered the money and it was going on things that weren’t relevant,” he added, reflecting on the controlling nature of addiction.
“I had to ask mum for a score just to get about, and I was out every weekend taking drugs and drinking, doing things I shouldn’t have done, all it’s done is cost me jobs, lost friends.”
Jack confessed being arrested was a turning point for him in his life and said: “I thought, ‘this is enough now’.”
“All this stuff was my own fault but I was good at having something else or someone to blame.”
“This is September, last year, at the lowest point I was taking drugs pretty much every day to avoid how I was feeling.”
“I get emotional talking about it because it’s hard,” he added.
“It’s so easy for people to go, ‘you had everything, you could have done anything,’ but I didn’t.”
He continued: “But I don’t resonate with that person anymore.”
Jack rose to fame after appearing on Love Island in 2018, which he won with his then-girlfriend Dani Dyer.
