MAFS UK star Georges emotionally opens up about his secret struggles with addiction
'It became my escape, but also my prison'
MAFS UK star Georges Berthonneau has emotionally opened up about his struggled with addiction over the years, both before and after appearing on the experiment.
In a series of posts on his Instagram, Georges explained how a childhood of “bullying” meant that he “learned to be tough before I learned to be loved.”
He continued: “That pain became the foundation of my resilience. But it also created deep wounds I carried for years. Eventually that pain caught up with me.
“I turned to drugs, alcohol, food, and toxic habits to numb it all. Addiction became my escape, but also my prison. I lost control. I lost direction. And at one point… I nearly lost everything.
“One day, I hit a wall. I looked in the mirror and said: ‘If this doesn’t stop, then you might as well disappear.’
“So I started with what I could control, my body and my mindset. Brick by brick, I rebuilt myself. Every workout broke the old me. Every rep, every choice, every walk rewired my mindset. It wasn’t just a transformation, it was a resurrection.”
Georges also talked about the struggled he’d had with food addiction after MAFS UK, explaining that he’d had “14 takeaways in two weeks.”
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He continued: “Addiction isn’t just drink or drugs. It can be food too. Over-eating, bingeing, using food as a crutch.
“I was quitting on myself and my body every time I gave in. I was obsessed with takeaways and it was costing me hundreds of pounds.”
The MAFS UK star admitted that he’s “always been on my own” with Georges feeling as though he has “few friends, lots of fakes and be isolated for outing people for shitty behaviours.”
And whilst their behaviour almost made Georges “quit too” he explained that the “loneliness” he felt turned into “rocket fuel” and that ultimately he “used that pain to become the best version of me.”
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