Meet The Drug Lords: The Real Narcos Jason Fox reveals the dangerous and sad incidents axed from final cut

Inspired by the hit Netflix series Narcos, which chronicled the rise of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar, Channel 4 sent former special forces soldier Jason Fox to meet the biggest players of the cartel, and unravel how they still manage to evade the law for a new three-part series, Meet The Drug Lords.

Part one kicks off tonight and sees Fox, best known for fronting brutal reality series SAS: Who Dares Wins, travelling across Mexico to meet the Sinaloa cartel, highly regarded as the most powerful drug trafficking organisation in the world.

While the docu-drama is packed with adrenaline and nail-biting meetings with some of the most dangerous criminals in the world, Fox spilled to Metro.co.uk the mind-blowing scenes which didnt make it to air.

We filmed so much, so a lot got cut, he told us. We spent a few days living with heroin farmers up in the mountains. That was amazing because the country is unbelievable, we spent two days cutting round on quadbikes. It was fun, dangerous, but fun.

There was a story in Peru where we met an Australian girl who had just been released from prison because she had been caught 10 years prior with 18kg of cocaine at Lemur airport. I interviewed her driving round Lemur, really sad story, shes now 33.

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So we spoke to her, that didnt make it. In an all-female prison and that was grim. I think she said the first three years she slept on a step until she earned some respect and got a bed.

Fox left the special forces in 2012 after serving in Afghanistan, before paving out a successful TV career. Not that hes slowed down at all, as he insisted Meet The Drugs Lords is still, very much, entering another warzone.

But not as we conventionally recognise a warzone, he explained. But youre very aware of how fragile you are and theres not much there to back you up.

The only thing you can rely on is your character, and the fact you need to remain switched on and not make any mistakes or anything that pisses them off, or as they just said, youre f**ked.

Meet the Drug Lords: The Real Narcos airs tonight at 9pm on Channel 4.

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