Joe Wicks has opened up about his father’s drug addiction and what it made him feel during his childhood.
The Body Coach says he “didn’t hate” his dad and has managed to let go of any anger he felt towards him, but he found it difficult to see what his heroin addiction was doing to him and their family.
The 33-year-old said: “I remember being in secondary school and I just remember somebody said something about my dad and I was just so angry, because again he’d relapsed.”
Joe’s dad was in and out of rehab for his heroin addiction throughout Joe’s childhood.
Joe Wicks says he ‘didn’t hate’ his dad, just what drugs did to him (Image: Getty Images for Disney)
The fitness fanatic continued: “I was disappointed and let down. I can just remember thinking I don’t want to talk about my dad. I hate him.”
But, looking back, Joe explained: “I didn’t hate my dad. I just hated what drugs were doing to him, doing to my family.
“It was just an angry thought and I suppose I let it out and I felt instantly bad. I remember just thinking what a horrible thing to say about your dad.”
The fitness fanatic now has a good relationship with his dad Gary (Image: joewicks/Instagram)
Joe is now in a great place with his dad Gary, and he occasionally features him in his social media uploads.
He said on Desert Island Discs: “Now I love my dad. I’ve had that anger and that’s completely passed.
“The antidote to addiction is connection and love, that’s what I’ve learned.”
Dad-of-one Joe opened up about his childhood and dad’s battle with drugs last year.
He told The Sun: “I grew up in a dysfunctional household. I grew up on a council estate, but I still had a roof over my head, we still had food, I went on school trips. I wasn’t completely deprived.
“The only thing was my dad was in and out – that was difficult. My dad was in and out of rehab, so he wasn’t always there.”
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