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Rod Stewart has opened up about his steroids addiction, admitting that it made his 'k**b' shrink.
The singer kept blowing his voice out, so he'd take steroids before a concert as they reduce swelling. The only problem was that the effect wasn't limited to just his throat, and affected other parts of his body as well.
"I let myself down on tours in the late ‘80s when I was addicted to steroids," Stewart told Mojo magazine. "In those days we didn’t have in-ear monitors and the band kept getting louder and drunker, and I kept blowing my voice out.
"The steroids will take down the swelling in any membrane — including your k**b — and it’s what you do when you’re in a bit of a pinch and need to do a show and you can’t sing."
He continued, "Steroids make you fat and bloated, you can’t sleep and you get really irritable. It’s one of the most horrible drugs in the world.
"One night, on stage in Sheffield, I thought I was in the kitchen with my mum because the steroids had eaten a hole in my stomach. I was bleeding internally and hallucinating. What the audience must have thought?"
Rod Stewart has shared a little too much about the effects of steroids
However, Stewart still uses the drugs if he needs to, even now.
He finished by saying, "I will still use them around once a year if I’m really struggling. It gets you through the show, but you pay for it. You can’t sing for a week."
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