Yahoo Lifestyle The Biggest Loser's Leigh Westren: 'My secret ice shame'
The Biggest Loser's Leigh Westren. Photo: Lawrence Furzey.
The Biggest Loser favourite Leigh Westren has opened up about the shocking private battle he’s kept hidden from the world – an eight-month addiction to the evil drug ice.
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Speaking exclusively to New Idea, Leigh has revealed he blew an estimated $80,000 on the drug, taking up to 20 hits of ice a day at the height of his addiction.
‘I thought I’d have ice once and that was it,’ he says. ‘But I loved the high it gave me, so I took it again... and again, and again. Within a week, I’d gone from trying ice for the first time to becoming an ice addict. I was hanging out in crack houses and doing ice all day with junkies, hanging with dealers.'
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Leigh on The Biggest Loser. Photo: Channel Ten.
Leigh first tried ice in July 2014 after the death of a close relative but says he eventually made the decision to quit the drug because of the toll his behaviour was having on his family.
'The important thing is that I focus on staying off drugs and repairing my relationship with my parents,’ he revealed.
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