JAMES ‘Arg’ Argent has revealed he was “kidnapped” by two local friends in a desperate bid to get him into rehab.
The former Towie star, who told The Sun this week he’s a cocaine addict and suffered two-near fatal overdoses, was tricked into thinking he was being taken to a Toby Carvery but was instead driven to a remote location on the outskirts of Wales to a treatment facility.
The incident took place in the midst of his drug taking phase, before he hit rock bottom.
Arg said: “I got a knock at the door and two well respected people came into my house and said ‘get yourself in the shower, we’re going out for some lunch’ and they weren’t taking no for an answer.
“They’re the type of people you don’t say no to or mess with.
“So I’ve got in the car and they said: ‘We’re going to take you to the Toby Carvery’ but I soon realised that’s not where we were going.
“They drove me to the middle of nowhere near Wales.
“I was like: ‘What are we doing here’ then I started clocking and I knew they were taking me to a rehab.
“They dropped me off but I wasn’t ready.”
Arg, 32, admits he only stayed at the centre for one night before discharging himself and getting a train home to Essex the following morning.
He added: “If you want to get better and clean you have to want it yourself.
“It’s all well and good grabbing someone and forcing them to go but unless they want it for themselves, it’s not going to work.”
Following his second overdose in December, James finally instigated his own rehab treatment in Thailand.
He spent two and a half months there at the turn of the year.
He now hopes to stay sober and settle down with girlfriend Gemma Collins.
