Jack Laurence

Yeah, yeah.

Don't let Jim touch a grenade.

First forming in the 1800s, its selection process is notoriously tough, and men from all over the world each year take on the challenge to join its ranks.

So Jim was slowly using his time as a legionnaire to conquer his fears.

one of which was jumping, as he puts it, from anything higher than around three metres.

So if you're afraid of jumping from heights, not even great heights, naturally, when you get the choice of your regiment within the French Foreign Legion... So therefore it made sense to sign up for the paratroopers.

So at no point did you suddenly go, this is exhilarating.

I love this.

I'm going to keep doing this.

Yeah.

Well, there's a positive.

Absolutely incredible.

But you never actually saw any sort of form of war, did you, or any sort of actual combat?

Chapter 2.

I didn't see what I was doing as that bad.

So Jim's time in the Legionnaires would come to an end and he headed back home.

He describes that time as therapy for him and helped him to get his head straight and overcome a lot of the fears he'd carried with him at a younger age.

When he returns home, he gets himself a job as a telemarketer, of all things.

But as I'm sure you can imagine, it's not long before the lure of adventure is calling, and he heads off overseas.

Spending time in the party scene of Ibiza is where Jim would try his first drug at the age of 21.