Joe Wicks has opened up about his childhood agony of watching his father succumb to heroin addiction. The 33-year-old fitness expert, and national PE treasure, says he struggled with his emotions and anger growing up as he had to watch the effects of his father’s addiction to the class A drug.
Speaking about his childhood and his father, roofer Gary, Joe emotionally recounts the anger he felt towards his dad while growing up during a candid discussion on Desert Island Discs.
Joe has since formed a close relationship with his father – who is now living drugs free – but says it was a different story when he was a child.