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<\/p>\nLOVE Island's Jack Fincham is back selling pens for the same boss he worked for at 17, insisting: "I've never been happier".<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old gave an emotional interview to The Sun about his secret stint in rehab as he opened up about his drug addiction for the first time.<\/p>\n
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After a series of arrests for drug-driving, Jack has been clean since August – the longest he's been drug-free since his eight-week stretch in the Love Island villa in 2018.<\/p>\n
He's now working at London's AJ Office Supplies – and credits the job for getting him back on the straight and narrow.<\/p>\n
Jack told us: "I'm back to work now and having a routine keeps me sane, it gives me a purpose, right? That's why I'm so happy.<\/p>\n
"After Love Island I had more money<\/span> than I knew what to do with.<\/p>\n "I could go out on a Wednesday and not have to worry about getting up for work early the next<\/span> day.<\/p>\n "I've been gradually falling to pieces since 2018… then the money ran out."<\/p>\n Jack won Love Island's \u00a350k prize with his then-girlfriend Dani Dyer and promptly quit his full-time job as offers flooded in.<\/p>\n But his drug abuse spiralled out of control and soon he was losing TV work because of his addiction.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Now he's working as an account manager and salesman, working with big clients in the city.<\/p>\n "I'm in the process of building myself up," Jack says excitedly.<\/p>\n "Which is why I'm back selling pen supplies.\u00a0Stick to what you know!<\/p>\n "I'm trying to get myself back on top," <\/p>\n "I mean, I wish I had gone back to work two years ago, but it's been amazing for me.<\/p>\n "I'm back working with some of the same people I knew when I was 17.<\/p>\n "They've all been saying how great I'm doing. I'm grafting hard and excited for the future<\/span>.<\/p>\n "I want to have one of the biggest stationary companies in the whole of the UK one day.<\/p>\n "I'd also love to get back to TV one day.<\/p>\n "I always thought you had to do one or the other, but you actually don't. You can do both.<\/p>\n "I worried about people thinking I was failure because I'd gone back to work and was out of money, but it's the complete opposite. They should be thinking, 'great, you're getting even more money in'.<\/p>\n "That's how I look at things now."<\/p>\n At his worst in 2020, Jack was taking at least 30 diazepam pills a day to cope with his crippling anxiety. <\/p>\n In November of that year he was tricked into going into rehab while high on drugs<\/span> by his mum Samantha.<\/p>\n Terrified for her son's health<\/span>, she worked with his agent to get him checked into The Haynes Clinic in Bedfordshire.<\/p>\n "Death was on the cards for me, it was imminent," Jack says emotionally. <\/p>\n "If I had carried on how I was, even up to six months ago, I would definitely be dead. Without a shadow of a doubt."<\/p>\n Jack's undergone a life-changing few months after landing in trouble with the police<\/span> turned out to be the push he needed to get help. <\/p>\n After admitting to drug-driving, Jack was handed a 36-month driving<\/span> ban and given 60 hours' community service after admitting two counts of drug-driving.<\/p>\n Jack – who suffers from ADHD – attended his first Narcotics Anonymous<\/span> meeting last night and is back in therapy<\/span> as he continues to rehabilitate himself.<\/p>\n He is set to volunteer in a charity shop as part of his sentence, which he was handed last month.<\/p>\n He is still under investigation for alleged drug-driving in August this year.<\/p>\n "This has made me realise that I have to take responsibility for my actions," says Jack.<\/p>\n "I was carrying on with the same lifestyle after the arrest in March, but now it's hit home. <\/p>\nREAD MORE ON JACK FINCHAM<\/h2>\n
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