SAS Australia: Nick Cummins reveals ‘gangs and death threats’ in confession about dark past - PerthNow

SAS Australia star Nick Cummins has revealed he was involved with “gangs and death threats” as a teenager and that his uncle was murdered.

The rugby player made one of his most emotional confessions to date on the hit Seven show, revealing that his biggest regret in life was telling his father, Mark Cummins, to “f... off” when he tried to pull him out of a “dark space”.

“When I was 13 I was going through a pretty tough time at school,” Cummins confessed during Monday night’s episode.

“Gangs and stuff, death threats, all that sort of thing, I was trying to handle it and my old man tried to help me.”

Cummins made the remark in an attempt to protect his dad from becoming involved.

Nick Cummins with his dad, Mark.

“His brother was murdered, stabbed, and I didn’t want him to go through anything like that,” Cummins revealed. “But it added so much pain on to him when I told him to f... off.

“He didn’t flog me, which made it even worse, because I was always relying (on that), that was his evening thing, and now he’s got terminal cancer and I think that situation has driven me to my career, to work harder and prove that I am deserving of his love.”

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The emotional confession brought Cummins’ celebrity cast mates to tears and prompted the directing staff to drag him in for interrogation.

It was during interrogation that the former Western Force player turned reality star gave a glimpse into Mark’s style of discipline.

The ‘Honey Badger’ on SAS Australia Credit: NIGEL WRIGHT/NIGEL WRIGHT

“I was brought up with a strong moral code and a good sense of right and wrong, if I was given an order to bloody do something, and I didn’t it was a crack across the chops,” he said.

“Not a punch or anything like that, just a backhand but a very well deserved backhand.”

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2020-11-16 12:40:00Z
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