Two-fisted “American Sniper” actor Erik Aude is the REAL deal!
Surviving a hellacious two years of unspeakable torture in a Pakistani prison, he was handed a death sentence after being framed for drug smuggling.
Amid the horror, the 6-foot-1, ex–high school gridiron star beat hordes of American-hating fellow inmates to a pulp, earning the moniker: “Toughest man in prison.”
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“This was a bad dream,” said the 35-year-old hunk, who’s also acted on “NCIS” and “Sons of Anarchy.”
Erik claimed to be a gullible 20-year-old when he accepted an all-expenses-paid gig from a training partner at his Beverly Hills gym to pick up some leather jackets in Islamabad.
“(He) came across as sincere,” he recalled.
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But his partner duped Erik into unknowingly smuggling drugs. At the airport on his way home, security dragged him into a room where an agent pulled a small envelope from a jacket lining.
“He tells me, ‘This is opium,’” Erik recalled.
The young American was hauled off to jail and viciously tortured.
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“They electrocuted me,” he said. “They loved to beat the bottom of your feet with a cane again and again.”
Despite the pain, Erik refused to confess to the crime. He was taken to Pakistan’s hellish Adiala Central Jail, where “the prisoners were waiting for me behind a door and … chanting, ‘Kill the American!’”
Inside, he was attacked by dozens of bloodthirsty brutes. “I had to fight for my life,” he said. “I bombed on those guys and took out all my frustrations of being set up, tortured and humiliated on them.”
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The powerfully built jock beat off his attackers, but during the ferocious brawl, he tossed a convict off a balcony.
Despite never knowing how badly injured the man was, Erik was sentenced to death!
Finally, after a clash with the hellhole’s most brutal guard, he went “from being the most hated prisoner to the most respected,” he explained.
A year after being locked up, the man who framed Erik admitted to the DEA he set him up, and he was released in 2004.
Now, the actor says he has no regrets: “I’m glad I went to prison — it lets me enjoy life so much more now.”
