Ross Kemp clip resurfaces of moment guerilla soldiers aimed guns at him in Papua New Guinea
On-screen incident was recalled after a moment from Kemp's new documentary went viral
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Your support makes all the difference.A hair-raising clip from Ross Kemp's 2014 show Extreme World 3 has resurfaced after he revealed his latest stunt for a new documentary.
Fans have already been discussing the former EastEnders star after he was seen inhaling a small amount of the drug spice from a prisoner's vape for his programme Welcome to HMP Belmarsh.
"I am rarely lost for words but as I turn to camera, I have lost the ability to speak," Kemp wrote in The Sun ahead of the release of the TV show.
"My brain has gone blank, my hands are clammy and my mouth is dry."
Kemp's account led to Twitter user Nick Harvey, a UK composer who worked on all four seasons of the Extreme World documentaries, to recall another incident where Kemp found himself in an extreme situation.
"A lot of people are sharing the Ross Kemp on spice video," Harvey wrote. "But I've worked on a number of his documentaries over the years, and this clip, when a gun was pulled on him in Papua New Guinea, is even more extraordinary."
In the Extreme World clip, an expedition in Papua New Guinea almost turns violent when three guerilla soldiers armed with rifles and shotguns burst out of the surrounding trees and demand Kemp and his crew get down on their hands and knees.
Kemp is shown refusing, instead pushing the rifles pointed at him away and yelling: "Are you gonna kill me? No one's gonna f***ing kill me."
Eventually the soldiers back down and Kemp and his team leave the situation unharmed.
"You know if you get down on your hands and knees, you're going to become a victim," Kemp said of the incident at the time. "What they're going to do... you just don't know."
"I don't know to this day if they were going to hurt us," he added. "Or if they were just testing us, testing our mettle to see if we'd capitulate, and because we didn't, we earnt [the soldier's] respect I think."
Welcome to HMP Belmarsh with Ross Kemp airs on Thursday 9 January at 9pm on ITV.
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