Former Royal Marine and Particular Forces soldier Matthew ‘Ollie’ Ollerton, 50, is greatest recognized for Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins. The bestselling writer lives in Shropshire along with his spouse Laura, 41, and her son William, 12.
My mum Angela, 76, was at all times good in a disaster. She needed to be, as a result of holidays with me as a toddler had been like going into fight.
Through the years my urge for food for hazard meant I ended up sinking a fishing hook in my leg, embedding glass in my shins and virtually dropping my arm. Fortunately, my mum had super-powers. My dad left after I was 13, leaving my mum to convey up three children. She had a great job however, with no assist, there have been instances when she was so stretched financially she needed to steal bathroom paper from work.
Matthew ‘Ollie’ Ollerton, 50, (pictured) who lives in Shropshire, revealed his mum was at all times good in a disaster
Once I stated at 14 that I wished to hitch the Marines, my mum took me to the careers workplace. She by no means let on how scared she was — even after I was in Iraq.
Then, after 26 years away from house, I returned to the UK in 2014 and he or she let me spend three months at her Cornwall cottage, simply engaged on myself. That was after I realised I used to be accomplished with assembly ladies in nightclubs. I wished a life companion.
I’ve battled drink on and off all my life, however after I met Laura in 2014, she helped me overcome it. We had been each jaded by earlier marriages, however I turned a nook after taking the hallucinogen Ayahuasca in Costa Rica in 2019. My ex-girlfriend Nat is a psychologist and he or she’d advisable it to me after learning its results on veterans with PTSD.
Laura appeared in my visions and I realised I couldn’t let the previous contaminate the longer term, so I proposed to her on New 12 months’s Eve 2019.
She takes care of me like Moneypenny takes care of 007 — our marriage ceremony was going to be Bond-themed. It was meant to happen in July 2020, however we ended up marrying final December on my fiftieth birthday. It was the perfect current ever and it means I’ll always remember our anniversary.
Ollie Ollerton’s newest thriller All Or Nothing is out now (additionally on audio and Kindle).