Before the success of Rocky, he was evicted from his apartment and slept in a New York City bus station for three weeks. “I had this one coat, and that coat literally was my house,” Sylvester said in an interview for Creed with journalist Kjersti Flaa. “And I would sleep at the bus station, Port Authority bus station, or outside the post office in the dead of winter. And boy, it was cold. So that coat saved my life.”
