Jovon “Q” Quarles on Overcoming His Childhood, Becoming a Record-Breaking Navy SEAL & Life as a Special Forces DS

Navy SEAL Jovon “Q” Quarles sits down with Gia, who he watched win her season of Special Forces, for a powerful conversation about the road that made him. He opens up about a childhood marked by his mother’s addiction and incarceration, the grandmother who raised him and pushed him toward the military, and having kids in high school before turning his life around. Q shares the brutal, never-before-told story of quitting during Hell Week, fighting his way back, surviving kidney failure, and becoming the first Black man to graduate at the top of his BUD/S class. He also talks life as a directing staff member breaking celebrities down to build them back up, what it really takes to make it through the course, and teases the intense new jungle season of Special Forces. Tune in to Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.

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