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Episode: In conversation with Rhys Rutledge.
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Drug dealer to trooping the colour.The life of Rhys Rutledge, you would think, was a fictional story, such is the unbelievable circumstances and events contained within in. Yet it is all true. From a young boy witnessing domestic violence to becoming a drug dealer and ultimately addict, succumbing to his own product causing him to contemplate taking his own life.He was in the last chance saloon and joined the army to escape his demons. He excelled and achieved the rank of platoon sergeant, serving across the world including Afghanistan. But his biggest pi...