The rise and fall of James Argent: New low for ex-TOWIE star after pushing beauty queen lover down stairs - after pals said he was the happiest he'd been since shaking drug and alcohol addictions and shedding 14st

Just days ago, friends of James Argent reported the world prima 'has ne'er been happier' aft ditching his cause and alcohol addictions, shedding 14 chromatic and yet uncovering emotion with his stunning exemplary girlfriend.

The erstwhile TOWIE star, 37, looked utterly smitten arsenic helium and Swedish quality queen Nicoline Artursson, 31, frolicked connected the formation during a romantic getaway to Spain.

Whispers abounded that Arg, arsenic helium is much informally known, was adjacent acceptable to 'take the narration to the adjacent level' with the erstwhile Miss Sweden, 9 months aft the brace casually met successful a supermarket.

But a specified 72 hours aft his formation outing his narration - and his full estimation - person been near hanging successful uncertainty aft helium pushed Artursson down steps during a convulsive row.

Argent, who admitted a domestic violence charge, is understood to person tried to force the exemplary retired of the beforehand doorway of her flat successful the Costa del Sol, causing her to tumble down 2 steps.

Her screams alerted neighbours, who past called the police. 

Artursson is understood to person needed infirmary treatment, but the grade of her injuries are presently not known.  

Argent has present been handed a six-month suspended condemnation and a two-year restraining order, portion besides being told to implicit a 'resocialisation people successful the tract of sex violence'. 

The turnabout successful events is the latest successful a agelong bid of challenges Argent has had to look since coming into the nationalist eye. 

He has spoken openly astir his battles with portion and cause addiction since uncovering fame connected TOWIE and successful 2014 helium was suspended from the amusement aft helium failed a regular drugs test.

The TV prima past spent 3 months successful a installation successful Thailand implicit the festive play successful 2016 successful bid to get the 'ongoing support' helium needed.

But successful 2019, pursuing a divided with past woman and chap TOWIE formed subordinate Gemma Collins, Argent relapsed and was hospitalised doubly aft overdosing connected drugs astatine his home. 

At the tallness of his addiction to cocaine, Argent antecedently recalled however helium suffered with psychosis which near him convinced the walls successful his location were caving in.

Speaking connected the Cabin Recovery Podcast in 2023, the world prima revealed however his cause usage went from being 'recreational' astatine the tallness of his TOWIE fame to thing overmuch darker.

He candidly elaborate suffering with paranoia and psychosis successful the midst of his cocaine addiction, telling however helium would fastener himself successful his country for days connected end.

Argent recalled 1 incidental wherever helium 'barricaded' himself successful his country and suffered  with psychosis connected a four-day cocaine bender.

Speaking to big and recovering cause addict Hunter Michael Shepard, helium said: 'Over 2 years ago, it got that atrocious erstwhile I was virtually having, I was picking up and I was continually picking up and using, and I didn't person a wink of slumber for 4 days straight.

'In my house, doors locked, barricading myself successful my room, eventual paranoia and psychosis. I utilized to deliberation that the walls successful my location were caving in.

'I'll beryllium honorable with you, I've ne'er truly told anyone this, but for days I'd beryllium holding my caput similar this successful my room, crying and screaming, reasoning the ceilings were going to cave successful connected me.'

Argent said helium would instrumentality cocaine unsocial successful his location astatine the tallness of his wont arsenic helium bravely reflected connected his struggles with psychosis and the acheronian moments of his addiction.

He said: 'I would beryllium determination for hours connected my telephone connected selfie mode, taking videos and pictures for hours due to the fact that I was adamant successful my caput that my chemoreceptor was going to cave in.'

He heartbreakingly told however helium was near not wanting to live, adding: 'I ne'er ever contemplated suicide, I ne'er planned connected taking my ain life, I retrieve sitting determination sometimes, astir praying to God saying instrumentality maine now.'

Recalling different acheronian infinitesimal amid his addiction, Argent told however helium once woke up astatine the bottommost of his staircase covered successful blood, but was excessively anemic to basal up aft not eating successful days.

'I retrieve waking up astatine the bottommost of my staircase, with humor pouring down my face, similar wherever americium I? What americium I doing? Screaming for help, but determination was cipher around,' helium said.

'I was successful specified a atrocious carnal information that I couldn't truly basal up. I hadn't eaten for days connected end.' 

The TV property admitted helium deed 'rock bottom' when helium woke up successful infirmary connected Christmas Day 2019 'fighting for his life' aft an overdose, with nary household oregon friends astir him, and realised helium had 'lost everything'.

Argent said helium knew successful that acheronian infinitesimal that helium needed to get sober, admitting that needed to hap for him to judge helium was successful request of help.

But arsenic his assemblage struggled to flooded his addiction to intoxicant and drugs, Argent recovered himself besides enduring an eating upset and unhealthy narration with food.

Argent, who weighed 27 chromatic astatine his heaviest but has since mislaid 14-stone, underwent gastric sleeve country successful 2021 and aboriginal had a tummy tuck to region the excess tegument astir his stomach. 

He said: 'My eating upset is my halfway addiction, that is my fig 1 problem. The archetypal clip I went to rehab, which was The Cabin successful Thailand, I retrieve I went determination for portion and drugs, but wrong a day, I was enactment successful the eating upset unit. 

'I tin astir laughter astatine it now, I've gone determination for portion and drugs and was enactment successful an eating upset unit, similar travel connected what other could perchance spell incorrect for maine successful my life? I tick each box, I'm an addict done and through.' 

Argent elaborate however helium wouldn't devour for hours portion taking cocaine, earlier 'bingeing' the adjacent day.

He explained: 'It's brainsick due to the fact that successful astir people's minds, if you're a cocaine addict, you'd subordinate cocaine with radical who are truly slim oregon skinny, oregon value loss, oregon you'd perceive stories astir models taking cocaine due to the fact that they'd halt eating. 

'But for me, it was the opposite. Even to this day, radical are similar 'how tin a cocaine addict beryllium morbidly obese, it doesn't marque sense'. 

'What I would do, I'd prime up astatine 8 o'clock astatine night, I'd beryllium utilizing drugs until the aboriginal hours of the morning, and I could ne'er devour erstwhile I was doing, truthful I would not devour thing from 9pm until the aboriginal hours of the morning, past I'd beryllium tossing and turning for a fewer hours, trying to get immoderate sleep. 

'Then, possibly if I did get a fewer hours, I'd beryllium perfectly starving due to the fact that I hadn't eaten for truthful galore hours, and past I would binge connected everything. 

'I would binge connected takeaways, accelerated foods, chewy sweets, crisps, sugary drinks, chocolate, crystal cream, burgers, Indians.'

Argent explained that his binge-eating was the 'route' of his aboriginal cocaine addiction and said helium had an unhealthy narration with nutrient and workout from a young age. 

'I ever had, adjacent from a young age, I had rather an unhealthy workout with nutrient and exercise, I was yo-yoing,' helium said.

'I wasn't overweight for galore years, I was precise overmuch up and down. One twelvemonth I could beryllium truly slim, but not successful a steadfast place, beauteous overmuch starving myself and exercising each the clip - and the different year, I could get morbidly obese, I would bash nary workout astatine each and beryllium binge eating.

He said losing value and getting steadfast had helped him with his sobriety - but truthful excessively had stableness successful his romanticist relationships.

Argent had a precocious illustration and on-off emotion matter with his TOWIE co-star Lydia Bright, which lasted from 2008 to 2016. It was reported astatine the clip that his cocaine addiction played a relation successful their split.

He past moved connected to Gemma Collins, but again his demons would look and origin a rift betwixt the pair.

Appearing connected This Morning, the world prima admitted that helium 'hated' woman Gemma Collins during the tallness of his addiction battle, arsenic she refused to screen up for him.

Growing emotional, Arg confessed: 'I truly consciousness for Gemma due to the fact that she has had to spell done truthful much. When I was heavy successful my addiction I would hatred her. 

'I would accidental "why are you telling my family, wherefore are you telling maine friends, wherefore are you telling the bosses of the TV shows? You're going to ruin my career."

'But she refused to screen up for me. She refused to prevarication for me, she would ne'er screen up oregon alteration to proceed successful my addiction.

'At the clip I hated her for that due to the fact that I astir wanted to get distant with it and bash what I wanted.'

Admitting that Gemma was pivotal successful his recovery, helium continued: 'She gave maine immoderate pugnacious emotion for sure. She was hard connected me. 

'Thank God she was due to the fact that if it wasn't for Gemma calling the ambulances to my house, who knows what could person happened. 

'I person enactment my ain beingness astatine risk, my vocation and health. More important than that it's what I've enactment my parents friends woman and manager through.

'The lone mode I tin marque amends with them is by staying cleanable and sober. It's each bully making these promises, but enactment speaks louder than words.'

The brace yet called it quits successful 2020, with Argent subsequently dating 19-year-old Italian histrion Stella Turian for conscionable implicit a year.

Argent nevertheless seemed to person recovered emotion erstwhile much aft falling for Artursson after they bumped into each different extracurricular a Spanish supermarket.

Describing the infinitesimal they met, Argent revealed helium thought she was retired of his league but decided helium had thing to lose. 

He said: 'I was walking to my gig astatine Elliott Wright's edifice successful Marbella.

'All of a abrupt I spot this pistillate coming towards me. I was like, "Wow, she's beautiful". She was conscionable successful her gym clothes, wearing nary make-up. She'd really conscionable fed a stray cat.'

And aft summoning up the courage, helium asked her out.

Despite Argent's confession connected their archetypal day astir his seven-year cause addiction, the exemplary was unfazed.

He explained: 'It was astir apt rather a batch to instrumentality in, but she was truly cool. She was good astir everything. Being unfastened and honorable and putting your cards connected the array from the commencement is truthful important.'

Insiders believed she would beryllium the pistillate to crook Argent's beingness astir and that the exemplary 'loves him for who helium is'.

'He's wholly smitten. He's decidedly looking to popular the question and commencement their aboriginal together,' a root told OK! Magazine earlier this month.

'He has perfectly nary uncertainty that she is the pistillate helium wants to walk the remainder of his beingness with, they are perfectly soulmates, there's nary question astir it.'

But aft much caller events, his nine-month narration is present said to beryllium over, with Argent nary uncertainty near contemplating this latest fallout from his actions. 

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