From Love Island fame to near-death drug relapse – how Jack Fincham tried to turn life around

JAILED Jack Fincham was at rock bottom and faced "imminent death" during a drug relapse - but was desperate to "turn his life around" in recent months.

The Love Island star had quit fame and was back selling pens before he was handed a six-week prison sentence earlier today.

Jack's Towie star girlfriend Chloe Brockett broke down in tears as he was sent down for admitting being in charge of a dangerously out-of-control dog who attacked a runner and mauled a woman.

It is understood he has now been freed on bail while he appeals the sentence.

It follows numerous run-ins with the law since 2021 when he was arrested for drug-driving.

"Death was on the cards for me, it was imminent," Jack told The Sun in an emotional interview in November 2023.

He claimed that his 2023 conviction on the same charge was the wake-up call he needed.

His girlfriend Chloe has also been by his side to help Jack recover from hitting rock bottom.

Although they were just friends at the time, Chloe supported her him as he worked to clean up his act.

An insider told The Sun: "Jack was at his lowest in 2023, but had worked really had to turn his life around in the last year.

"He has battled many demons and vowed never to let his addiction win.

"It's so sad that just as he was working to get into a good place with his job, sobriety and relationship again, that this has happened."

Jack said he had hit rock bottom in 2023 when he was caught drug-driving after being pulled over by cops.

Later that year he was handed a 36-month driving ban and given 60 hours' community service.

Jack volunteered in a charity shop as part of his sentence.

However in February 2024 he was pulled over and charged with driving after taking cocaine.

He also faced charges of careless driving, having no insurance and using false number plates.

Jack was spared jail after speeding his £50,000 car down the hard shoulder of the A2 in Kent.

Our insider added: "Jack hit a real low point with his mental health last year while trying to get his act together.

"It's been a really long and difficult journey. He knows he's running out of chances."

He said before signing up to his first Narcotics Anonymous meeting: "This has made me realise that I have to take responsibility for my actions.

"I was carrying on with the same lifestyle after the arrest, but now it's hit home.

"I'm glad it's happened. That's how life is, if you make a mistake, you have to pay for it. I deserve to have a driving ban and be doing community service.

"I had no respect for myself and was selfish about others. I didn't care what happened to me in the frame of my mind I was in. I wasn't thinking about what harm I could do to myself or how I could hurt others.

"This isn't about wanting people to feel sorry for me. It's embarrassing enough as it is.

"This is more about explaining I have been going through a problem and I still am. I'll always have to work on this problem.

"I'm not saying 'poor me, poor me'. Getting behind the wheel of the car when you've taken drugs is not acceptable - but the real turning point was getting in trouble with the police and realising that I could have killed myself or someone else in that car."

Jack has battled mental health issues since finding fame in the Love Island villa back in 2018.

He went on to win the show with then girlfriend Dani Dyer - daughter of EastEnders legend Danny.

They split 129 days after leaving the villa.

His new-found fame saw him thrown from a 9 to 5 job selling pens to partying most nights - and his addiction battle soon spiralled out of control.

Alongside using class A drugs, including cocaine, Jack was taking at least 30 diazepam pills a day to cope with his crippling anxiety.

He says it was his mum who tricked him into going to rehab while he was high on drugs.

Jack said: "I came down into the kitchen and my mum told me to pack a bag. She said 'you can go away for a little while if you want?'

"This goes to show the state I was in because you'd think I would have questioned it, but I said 'oh, alright then', without even knowing where I was going.

"I got in the car with my agent and I still wasn't asking where he was taking me. I was just out of it and didn't have any idea what was going on.

"We drove to rehab and when we arrived he said 'this is where you're going', but he didn't say the word 'rehab' and so off I went.

"I got in there and then realised 's*** I'm not coming out of here now'."

Admitting he was in denial, Jack started kicking off, shouting "I don't need to be here, I'm not like that, I don't have a problem" as he sat alongside heroin addicts inside The Haynes Clinic in Bedfordshire when he was admitted back in November 2020.

After getting sober, the 33-year-old vowed: "I ain't going to let addiction beat me, I won't."

Jack and Chloe got back together and moved into their own home in May 2024.

The pair, who were first linked together back in 2019, have been renovating their Essex property ever since - and even spent Christmas together in their new pad.