The brutal toll of SAS Australia: Model Erin McNaught passed out underwater, tore muscles and lost seven kilograms during extreme challenges
Former Miss Universe Australia Erin McNaught is still recovering from injuries she sustained while filming SAS: Australia two months ago.
The model said the brutal military-style reality show ‘almost broke her’ physically and mentally.
Speaking to Who magazine, the 38-year-old said: ‘I passed out underwater, I got black eyes, tore muscles in my left shoulder and I lost something like 7kg.’
The brutal toll of SAS Australia: Model Erin McNaught ‘passed out underwater’, tore muscles and lost seven kilograms during extreme challenges
‘I felt like I almost died on day one! The physical side was tough but the mental side was hard, too,’ she added.
On day one, all celebrity recruits were required to fall out of a helicopter backwards into icy waters and swim to the shore unassisted.
Erin, who has already shared photos of her badly bruised body from the fall, went on to describe the extent of her injuries from the stunt.
‘I landed face first horizontally. I blacked out underwater, lost sight in my left eye for a while and had two black eyes for five days,’ she said.
‘I blacked out underwater, lost sight in my left eye’: Model Erin’s entrance into the water didn’t go to plan and was badly hurt by the fall
‘I got black eyes, tore muscles in my left shoulder and I lost something like 7kg’: Erin has already shared photos of her badly bruised body from the helicopter fall
‘I felt like I almost died on day one’: Erin (Number 7) said she struggled physically and mentally on the tough reality TV series. Pictured with swollen cheeks after the brutal helicopter fall
The mother-of-two added that despite her best efforts to ‘bulk up’ before the show with an additional 6kg, she lost more than 6kg during her time on SAS: Australia.
While they were required to perform very physical tasks, Erin explained they were living off ‘meagre rations’.
A total of 17 famous faces signed up for the intense SAS selection course run by an elite team of ex-special forces soldiers, otherwise known as the ‘Directing Staff’.
Remember her? Erin represented Australia in the Miss Universe pageant in 2006
Happy family: Erin shares two young sons, Evander, four, and Ennio, three, with UK singer Example, real name Elliot Gleave (left)
Sydney-based PR queen Roxy Jacenko, 40, was the first to voluntarily withdraw from the series during episode one due to a pre-existing injury.
Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, 43, and former NRL WAG and glamour model Arabella Del Busso, 30, both left on the second episode.
SAS: Australia airs Monday and Tuesday nights from 7:30pm on Channel Seven
Tune in: SAS: Australia airs Monday and Tuesday nights from 7:30pm on Channel Seven. Pictured Erin dragging Candice Warner across the beach
Cast: A total of 17 famous faces signed up for the intense SAS selection course run by an elite team of ex-special forces soldiers known as the Directing Staff