James Argent has admitted cruel jokes about his weight sent him spiralling into a vicious cycle of binge eating and cocaine-fuelled benders.
The former Towie star, 32, has lifted the lid on the drug addiction that wrecked his life and confessed his habit was linked to a devastated eating disorder.
Arg has said online abuse and jibes about his size pushed him into fast food binges which were followed by nights of snorting coke.
Speaking to The Sun, he explained: "The core of my addiction stems from my eating disorder. "I binge on food if I hate the way I look.
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