Sylvester Stallone revealed for the first time that he struggled with bulimia at the height of his ’80s action star fame, with the Rocky and Rambo star saying he was willing to torture himself to achieve the chiseled body he wanted to see on the silver screen.

The Hollywood legend was also candid about his use of steroids.

“It became an obsession,” Stallone said during the Saturday episode of The Interview podcast.  “Really bad, to the point where I became bulimic.”

He then noticed his admission surprised host Lulu Garcia-Navarro. “You didn’t know that? Oh, you heard it here first.”

Stallone said his fitness fixation got really bad in 1982 on the set of Rocky III, where marathon weightlifting, boxing, and swimming sessions — to go along with a very-low calorie diet — dropped his body fat percentage to 2.6%. He said it turned into an “obsessive body-worship kind of thing” where he did not want to lose the look he had worked so hard to obtain.

“I couldn’t hold anything down, or if I did, I didn’t want to keep it down, because I became so obsessed with staying at that point of fitness,” Stallone said.

He then told Garcia-Navarro he used performance-enhancing drugs to push his body even further.

“Nobody does it without additives and drugs, period. I don’t care who, that’s bullsh*t. They have to,” Stallone said. “But then again, it isn’t as though you are a junkie. But if you’re going to work and try to stay in shape for six months straight, and you’re eating yogurt and pudding — it’s not happening.”

“So you’re taking steroids, is what you’re saying?” Garcia-Navarro jumped in and asked.

“Oh my God, you have to!” Stallone said. “But you do it in a sensible way, 6 weeks on, 6 weeks off. People go, ‘Oh, you don’t get that way naturally.’ No, you don’t, unless you’re just a freak of nature.”

Stallone has previously hinted at using PEDs to get in top shape.

He pleaded guilty to bringing human growth hormone into Australia back in 2007, with Stallone telling NBC afterward it helped him recover from injuries quicker.

It “takes off the wear and tear that your body takes,” Stallone said at the time. “The power to recuperate is very, very limited. So all it does is expedite.”

He told Garcia-Navarro he eventually “broke the cycle” when he starred in Copland in 1997, which required him to pack on 40 pounds. But the eating disorder had taken a “terrible toll” on his body by that point, he said.

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