Warning: This article contains discussion of gambling addiction and suicide which some readers may find distressing.
A man who lost as much as £40k to a gambling addiction said it left him ‘dying inside’ before he sought help and turned his life around.
Like many people, Scott Johnson’s gambling started as a weekly event with friends where they’d each stick a quid on an accumulator ahead of the weekend’s football.
But it wasn’t long until this casual weekend bet spiralled into a deeply damaging addiction that resulted in him losing thousands of pounds.
The 38-year-old told LADbible that when going through a tough time, ‘you find some sort of medication to help you’ and in his case it was ‘drinking and gambling’. But while his bets started…