I jumped from hotel balcony to kill myself during drunken gambling binge…I thought I had nothing left, says Jack Fincham

LOVE Island star Jack Fincham has told how he jumped off a hotel balcony in a heartbreaking suicide bid during his lowest point last year. The reality star hit rock bottom after splashing all of his TV earnings on drugs, booze and gambling, he told The Sun. In 2018 Jack became an overnight sensation after winning the ITV dating show with Dani Dyer. But seven years on, the Towie star has opened up about how his addiction troubles saw him blow his £1million fortune - and nearly lose his life.

While on a break with his partner, Towie star Chloe Brockett, 24, a stay in a West Midlands country hotel took a turn for the worst. "I’d had the world at my feet, but the addictions destroyed everything," Jack said. At the peak of despair, Jack recalls Chloe calling an ambulance in an effort to stop the star trying to take his own life. He said: "I ordered room service — sambucas, Prosecco, five vodkas at a time. Bang, bang, bang, done.

“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’.". Jack said Chloe went downstairs and begged hotel staff to stop serving him. He added: "She asked them to call an ambulance because she was scared I was going to kill myself.".

While she was away, desperate Jack threw himself from the hotel balcony. 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’. “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.”. Cops took him away for his own safety while he sobered up.

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.”. Describing the shocking spiral which led up to that night last summer, the 33-year-old said he had "nothing to show" for his reality work. He spent £40,000 in one day on blackjack online and sat in bed alone taking cocaine. Jack added: "I had the world at my feet and I screwed it up.".

If you, or anyone you know, needs help dealing with mental health problems, the following organisations provide support:. Jack said: "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 have messed up my life'. "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.".

Last week, Jack faced prison after pleading guilty to having a dangerous dog while on a suspended sentence for a drug-driving offence. He has now revealed he feels "utterly mortified" by what he has done and only blames himself, saying: "I, Jack Fincham, am an addict. "Embarrassed just doesn’t touch it. It is hideous. I cry when I think about how I’ve let people down. "Drugs helped my relationship with Dani fail. I was absent, my priorities were wrong, I wasn’t a great boyfriend. I am determined to change my future.

"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.". The past few months have seen Jack finally start to turn his life around as he has his eyes set on a promising future with partner Chloe. He said: "My last drink was Christmas Day — just two Desperados. At New Year there was no drugs or booze for the first time in my adult life. That feels amazing.

"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.". 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.

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. 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. “Then I started to take Xanax without the coke, sometimes ten pills a day.”.

He quit it after rehab, but last summer a packet he had hidden during the height of his addiction dropped out of a cupboard. 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.