HE is the ripped US Marines veteran filling the boots of sacked Ant Middleton on TV’s SAS: Who Dares Wins. But in an exclusive chat with the Sun on Sunday, new chief instructor Rudy Reyes today reveals how life in the military was nothing compared to the drink and drugs hell his war traumas plunged him into.
Rudy, 50, quit the Marines in 2005 after seven years’ service including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, then turned to TV and film acting work in the US before going on ever-wilder benders to blot out his demons.
He fell in with biker gangs and brawled in bars, and in 2016 contemplated ending it all after losing custody of his nine-year-old son Dylan.
He said: “I had PTSD and had been in a mental institution for veterans. My violence was used against me in court. I was not well. “I have never felt so low.
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