While the other man ultimately went free, the actor found himself in the Manhattan House of Detention, which had been given the nickname of \u201cthe Tombs\u201d.<\/p>\n
He wrote: \u201cIt was filthy. It was violent, overcrowded. It was a true house of horrors. It was also very familiar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stallone revealed he had \u201cspent a week in a place a lot like this, except worse because there were no cops, laws or judges there\u201d at one point in his teens.<\/p>\n
This time, he found himself in a cell alongside \u201cat least 15 men\u201d, even though the space was \u201cprobably designed for six\u201d.<\/p>\n
He was released after a week and a half, and immediately quit his job at the deli.<\/p>\n
The action movie hero reflected: \u201cIt was a wake-up call. The thought of having no freedom again was an incentive to keep my nose clean, forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
By 1976, he had turned things around and became a household name at the age of 30 when Rocky hit the big screen.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Stallone recently revealed how a terrifying spell in a psychiatric facility as a teenager left him convinced that nobody would ever be able to break his will after claiming he was attacked by another resident during his stay.<\/p>\n
The Rambo star told the New York Times that teenagers at Pennsylvania\u2019s Devereux Manor High School could be sent to a place he knew as Park Lodge or the \u201cSnake Pit\u201d as punishment for breaking rules, and said he was once kept there for \u201ca couple of weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sylvester said: \u201cIn my age group, the teenagers, if you ever snuck out to see a girl or do something like that, you\u2019d be reprimanded by being taken to a place called Park Lodge or the Snake Pit.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cOn the outside it looked like a big, old Tudor home from the 1920s, and then you walked inside and you entered the heart of insanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Describing what he remembered seeing inside, he said: \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 also claimed that during his stay he was attacked by another resident.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIt was wild, but this to me, was one of the better things that happened, too. I said, \u2018I know they\u2019re going to try to break me\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was attacked there. They tried to rip my groin off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sylvester said the other student was known as Jay Bird.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cHe was big, had no hair, always naked, rotten teeth. They called him Jay Bird because he was always naked as a jaybird.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd 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
He said two guards then intervened, \u201cbeating the c*** out of [Jay Bird] with razor straps\u201d.<\/p>\n
Stallone recalled: \u201cI go, \u2018What the hell is wrong with him?\u2019 And they say, \u2018You\u2019re in a crazy house, boy. Nothing\u2019s wrong with him. He\u2019s crazy\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
A representative for Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health told the newspaper it respected his \u201cright to tell his story his own way\u201d and was \u201csorry for any trauma he remembers experiencing\u201d, without directly addressing his allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the other man ultimately went free, the actor found himself in the Manhattan House of Detention, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,14466,682,3043,58930,156,9931,10053,14641,9462,111,139,69,6115,312,287573,308892,269587,28066,177235,6736],"class_list":["post-629703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-arrest","tag-being","tag-call","tag-deli","tag-entertainment","tag-horrors","tag-house","tag-jailed","tag-memoir","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-real","tag-says","tag-stallone","tag-stallones","tag-sylvester","tag-true","tag-wakeup","tag-was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}