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"Rod Stewart has opened up about his past addiction to steroids, explaining that the drug shrunk the size of his manhood. The singer told Mojo magazine how he relied on steroids to help soothe his vocal cords before gigs, but suffered several side effects.  &amp;quot;I let myself down on tours in the late &amp;#039;80s when I was addicted to steroids. In those days we didn&amp;#039;t have in-ear monitors and the band kept getting louder and drunker, and I kept blowing my voice out,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;The steroids will take down the swelling in any membrane - including your knob - and it&amp;#039;s what you do when you&amp;#039;re in a bit of a pinch and need to do a show and you can&amp;#039;t sing.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;Steroids make you fat and bloated, you can&amp;#039;t sleep and you get really irritable. It&amp;#039;s one of the most horrible drugs in the world.   &amp;quot;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! &amp;quot;I will still use them around once a year if I&amp;#039;m really struggling. It gets you through the show, but you pay for it. You can&amp;#039;t sing for a week.&amp;quot; Stewart recently revealed that he once split from his wife Penny Lancaster for two weeks following an argument. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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