told the New York Times<\/a> in a profile published Saturday that he attended a high school that would punish teenaged students who misbehaved by putting them in \u201ca place called Park Lodge or the Snake Pit.\u201d<\/p>\nSylvester Stallone, seen here in 2022, writes about a violent attack in a psych ward in his upcoming memoir. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Stallone, seen here in 2023, claims a fellow patient tried to rip his groin off. GC Images<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the outside it looked like a big, old Tudor home from the \u201920s, and then you walked inside and you entered the heart of insanity,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThe smell, the filth, people running around naked, clawing, hands tied, drooling. This is what they thought would impress you never to break the rules again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stallone said he was left there for two weeks and was attacked by a \u201cguy named Jay Bird.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was big, had no hair, always naked, rotten teeth,\u201d the actor explained. \u201cThey called him Jay Bird because he was always naked as a jaybird. And I go into the bathroom on the way to the food mess hall, and he comes in and comes around me and he\u2019s like ripping on my throat and he is going into my pants and grabbing my groin.\u201d<\/p>\n
The actor, photographed above in 1977, described the psych ward as \u201cthe heart of insanity.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n
Sylvester Stallone, seen here in 2022, also writes about his dysfunctional and violent childhood in his memoir. Dave J Hogan\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
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Stallone alleged that two guards ran in and began \u201cbeating the crap out of him [Bird] with razor straps.\u201d<\/p>\n
When he returned to school, the \u201cRambo\u201d star said the principal asked if he\u2019d learned his lesson.<\/p>\n
\u201dI said: \u2018I learned a lot more than that lesson. A much better lesson: You can\u2019t break me,’\u201d he shared. \u201cSo when I got to the city [New York] and everything that came after that, I always felt I was unbreakable in that way. My heart could be broken, like every human being, but I\u2019m talking about will.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stallone says his mother, Jackie, seen here in 1997, was not a nurturing figure. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The actor shared that he abused steroids and had an eating disorder while preparing for 1982\u2019s \u201cRocky III.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Steps\u201d hits bookstores on Sept. 29. William Morrow<\/p>\n
The NYT reached out to Stallone\u2019s high school and a spokesperson responded that, while they hadn\u2019t read the book, they respected the star\u2019s \u201cright to tell his story his own way\u201d and apologized \u201cfor any trauma he remembers experiencing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stallone also reveals in the wide-ranging profile that his mother was not a nurturing figure and his father was unpredictable and violent.<\/p>\n
He also admitted to abusing steroids and struggling with bulimia<\/a> while preparing for 1982\u2019s \u201cRocky III.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThen it became an obsession,\u201d he said, referencing how he curated his body to fit the \u201cRambo\u201d and \u201cRocky\u201d franchises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone claims that he was once sequestered in a psychiatric ward, where a fellow patient attempted to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,20165,12727,362,75,337,83694,24774,348],"class_list":["post-910963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-memoirs","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-rocky","tag-sylvester-stallone","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}