‘Drugs made me hate GC’

JAMES “ARG” ARGENT has said he “hated” his girlfriend Gemma Collins during the lowest point of his drug addiction because she refused to lie for him.

The Only Way Is Essex star, above, appeared on This Morning to discuss his seven-year struggle with cocaine and his experience of an eating disorder.

Speaking to co-hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford via video-link from his home in Essex, the 32-year-old said Collins, 39, had refused to be “an enabler”.

He said: “I really feel for Gemma because she’d had to go through so much. When I was deep in my addiction I would hate Gemma.

“I would say, ‘Why are you telling my family [and] friends? You’re going to ruin my career’.”