Mind, www.mind.org, provide information about types of mental health problems and where to get help for them. Call the infoline on 0300 123 3393 (UK landline calls are charged at local rates, and charges from mobile phones will vary).Jack has now returned to the job he did before Love Island — selling stationery — and is doing a degree in financial trading.

“My face changed, I was grey, my brain was half asleep and half awake. I wasn’t in control.Jack explained: “I was in the hotel room and went on IMDB [a TV and film database], and I was like, ‘S***, I’ve done 30 TV shows’. I thought, ‘I’ve got nothing to show for this, I have messed up my life’.“I ordered room service — sambucas, Prosecco, five vodkas at a time. Bang, bang, bang, done. Now he is looking to the future with his partner, Towie star Chloe Brockett, 24.“She asked them to call an ambulance because she was scared I was going to kill myself.”Cops took him away for his own safety while he sobered up. Heads Together, www.headstogether.org.uk, is the a mental health initiative spearheaded by The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales.He nearly did last summer when a break with Chloe in a West Midlands country hotel ended badly.He said: “My ankle was purple and I couldn’t walk for weeks. When I saw how Liam Payne passed away, I realised it could have been me.”“At first, I made £8,000 for 30-second Instagram posts for companies like Vodafone, KFC or McDonald’s. But then nobody wanted me. I don’t blame them for rejecting me. I let people down.”

If you, or anyone you know, needs help dealing with mental health problems, the following organisations provide support:He went on: “I remember weighing up the options, thinking, ‘I’ve nothing left to give here. Not a penny to my name. Nothing is salvageable’.He said: “I want a career, to earn money.An addiction to gambling went hand-in-hand. Jack said: “I started playing blackjack in 2021, £5,000 hands. I remember once dropping Chloe off at Towie and during the 40-minute cab home I blew £7,000.

He quit it after rehab, but last summer a packet he had hidden during the height of his addiction dropped out of a cupboard.The following are free to contact and confidential:“I’d find a pub at 10am and convince them to let me in.”Jack finally started to turn his life around at the end of December.Last week, he faced prison after pleading guilty to having a dangerous dog while on a suspended sentence for a drug-driving offence.“I feel like a failure, utterly mortified by the things I have done. I had the world at my feet and I screwed it up.Rethink Mental Illness, www.rethink.org, gives advice and information service offers practical advice on a wide range of topics such as The Mental Health Act, social care, welfare benefits, and carers rights. Use its website or call 0300 5000 927 (calls are charged at your local rate).I could do £800 of cocaine on a night out. I’d even sat in bed with a pile next to me just sniffing it on my own

“I will propose when I have enough money. If I did it now, her ring would have to come out of a cracker. Chloe deserves much more than that. She deserves a medal — she has saved my life.”Jack Fincham

Jack explained: “I took it after cocaine to help me sleep.   I could do £800 of cocaine on a night out. I’d even sat in bed with a pile next to me just sniffing it on my own.His addictions have led to his two arrests for drug-driving. I ended up in psychosis because I hadn’t slept. My body felt  possessed. One night I woke up, went outside into someone’s driveway and took a kid’s trike“Embarrassed just doesn’t touch it. It is hideous. I cry when I think about how I’ve let people down.After appealing, he is now on bail.Over the years Jack made TV appearances while high — or withdrawing.

“I’d had the world at my feet, but the addictions destroyed everything. I want a career, to earn money. I am worse off financially now than before Love Island“My followers had gone from 2.6million to 1.6million. Imagine lining up a million people who just don’t like you any more — it’s a horrible feeling. “I started gambling on my phone, convinced I was going to win hundreds of thousands of pounds. But then I lost my last penny — or thought I had. I was that off my head I hadn’t pressed the button. But I thought I had. I was saying, ‘I don’t want to be here any more, I’ve had enough. I am a f***ing loser’.Fighting back tears, Jack details his desperation to find more.“Then I started to take Xanax without the coke, sometimes ten pills a day.”

He said: “I searched every single pocket. I crawled on my hands and knees on the floor, under furniture, everywhere. They’re more addictive than heroin. I had withdrawal seizures, my body was jolting, insomnia that went on for days.Jack Fincham

“I ended up in psychosis because I hadn’t slept. My body felt possessed. One night I woke up, went outside into someone’s driveway and took a kid’s trike.The reality star, 32, spent £40,000 in one day on blackjack online and sat in bed alone taking cocaine, adding: “I had the world at my feet and I screwed it up.”He is also returning to boxing. He said: “I was shocked they activated a sentence for something unconnected. They took me down and got me ready for prison. Chloe was crying in the court.”

“I locked myself away for two days watching Alan Partridge and The Office over and over, comforted I finally knew the words.”He said: “I saw an episode of Dinner Date the other day and realised how dreadfully unwell I was. I looked awful. I don’t know what I was even doing on TV.”Chloe intervened, threw the pills away and said she would leave him if he ordered any more.Jack and Chloe have been together since 2019, but it was in 2020 that he was forced into rehab by his mum for an addiction to anti-anxiety drug Xanax. “I have blown more than a million pounds thanks to drugs, booze and gambling.“Chloe went downstairs and told them to stop serving me.Because of this, when he went to Southend magistrates’ court last week for two counts of being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog, he was ordered to go to jail for six weeks.As he remembers that moment, he shakes his head in disgust and points to the living room floor in his home in Grays, Essex, saying: “It dropped on the floor just there. I tried not to even look at it. I kept thinking, ‘I shouldn’t take these’ — then, ‘Maybe just one to help me sleep?’. I bought more online.

“We just watched the fireworks together and knew 2025 would be different. I’ve been to rehab before — because I was forced to — but  I didn’t actually think I was an addict. Now I’m not a kid, I need to change before it’s too late. If I don’t, I could die.”Jack Fincham

While she was away, Jack threw himself over the hotel balcony.“There’s times I wish I’d never been in the public eye and just stayed exactly as I was. Destruction was always in me, but fame and money made it happen quicker.”He reached rock bottom last year when he jumped off a hotel balcony in a suicide bid.LOVE Island star Jack Fincham says he feels “ashamed” of himself after admitting he blew his £1million TV fortune on drugs, booze and gambling.And he is looking to the future with Chloe. Jack said: “I want to marry her and have children.Next month he will take part in The Equalizer, a professional bare knuckle fighting event in Harrow.Last March, he was spared prison and given a suspended sentence instead.Now Jack, who was propelled into stardom when he won the ITV dating show with Dani Dyer in 2018, says: “I can’t say Love Island ruined my life — I did that myself. I, Jack Fincham, am an addict.“We were in a hillside lodge and I jumped. If I’d have dived at a different angle, I may not be here today. That is scary.”