Grant Denyer reveals he 'woke up face down surrounded by human poo' and thought his wife Chezzi was being raped by an intruder while he was addicted to painkilling drugs

Grant Denyer has revealed how his life went downhill during an addiction to painkillers.

The 43-year-old Family Feud host was on a concoction of endone and morphine while recovering from a broken back injury after a monster truck accident.

The side effects from his drug use were so bad that the star once woke up surrounded by faeces and believed his wife was being raped by an intruder.

REVEALED: Grant Denyer, 43, has revealed he 'couldn't tell the difference between reality and a dream' as he candidly opened up about using painkillers

'Mad sh*t that went on …. when I closed my eyes and couldn't tell the difference between reality and my dream,' he said on his It's All True podcast on Monday.

'As soon as you close your eyes you go into your worst nightmares,' Grant continued.

'The things that you are afraid of the most are the first things that happen the moment you fall asleep and you start dreaming.'

'It is traumatic as every time you sleep and then when you wake up you can't tell what is real and what isn't.'

Candid: The Family Feud host was on a concoction of endone and morphine while recovering from a broken back injury after a monster truck accident

'I remember waking up thinking there was a home invasion and I thought that Chezzi was being attacked, being raped in the apartment,' Grant admitted

Also speaking on the podcast, his wife Chezzi explained the medication was the worst part of her husband's injury by far.

'So many drug psychosis episodes where Grant would kick me out of the house thinking I was an imposter dressed up as Chezzi!' she said.

Grant added: 'I remember waking up thinking there was a home invasion and I thought that Chezzi was being attacked, being raped in the apartment.

'I'm trying to find these guys who are attacking you and raping you. I'm like, "Where are they? I know they're here! Where are they?"'

'Mad sh*t that went on': Grant has revealed he 'couldn't tell the difference between reality and his dreams' during his battle with painkillers. Pictured with his wife Chezzi

With Chezzi, 40, slowly weaning him off the meds, Grant remembered one night leaving the house in his undies to get some scotch.  

Chezzi explained Grant left the house to buy Scotch - dressed only in his underwear - and she searched the city streets only to find him asleep face down in a fire exit surrounded by 'filth and human poo'.

'It broke my heart,' Chezzi said of the harrowing experience.

'I found him at the top of the fire escape laying face down in all this filth. There was even a human poo next to him (which wasn't Grant's).' 

Broken: The monster truck crash left Grant with a vertebrae that was shattered in 11 pieces, and doctors feared he may never walk again

But the experience totally connected them, albeit in an unhealthy way, as 'we learnt the term co-dependant - our existence during that period and afterwards was patient and nurse.'

The monster truck crash left Grant with a vertebrae that was shattered in 11 pieces, and doctors feared he may never walk again.

However, the popular presenter made a remarkable recovery, triumphantly returning to TV screens and eventually winning a Gold Logie.

Grant's new podcast IT'S ALL TRUE? is available to be streamed now.

Chezzi revealed: 'So many drug psychosis episodes where Grant would kick me out of the house thinking I was an imposter dressed up as Chezzi!' The happy couple are currently expecting their third child. Pictured with: daughters, Scout and Sailor