What Stallone said
Stallone describes lowering his body fat during Rocky III and says the effort became an obsessive body regimen that included bulimia. He also acknowledges using steroids and says he overused them.
The consequences he describes
The actor links decades of stunts and body demands with multiple back, shoulder and neck operations. He says he remains focused on fitness but would tell his younger self not to perform every stunt.
How to read the report
20 Minutes is relaying Stallone's statements from a New York Times interview tied to his memoir The Steps. The briefing therefore treats the account as his own retrospective disclosure and does not extend it into medical claims about cause or diagnosis.
Update note: Original source-read briefing preserving attribution and separating personal recollection from medical verification.
Original headline: Sylvester Stallone révèle avoir été boulimique et accro aux stéroïdes à l’époque de « Rocky »
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September 28 French account quoting Stallone's comments about body image, steroid use and later operations.
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