Ex-NFL and “American Gladiators” stars memoir reveals heavy steroid habit
Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Hot Momma
Ex pro-football player and “American Gladiators” star Dan Clark reveals his dirty little secret of 20 years taking steroids in his memoir, “Gladiator: A True Story of ‘Roids, Rage and Redemption,” out next month. Dan loved the power steroids gave him - until the “American Gladiators” star discovered the muscle-enhancing drugs made him grow man-boobs, shrank his privates and turned sex into a painful experience.
Clark, 44, a former LA Rams defensive lineman who juiced (not an exclusive club by any means), says when he first started injecting steroids, he gained a whopping 32 pounds of muscle in 10 weeks and topped the scales at 262. He shot (literally) seven seasons of “American Gladiators” from 1989 to 1996, as “Nitro” on the smash reality series, “I hate[d] taking off my shirt. For photo shoots, [I’d] wet my nipple with spit . . . [to] look firm instead of hanging down.” Clark developed Gynecomastia, ‘man boobs’ from the steroid usage and pleaded with the wardrobe stylist to make him a new uniform, but didn’t tell her it was “to hide my budding breasts.” He eventually underwent reduction surgery.
They also took their toll on his private parts, so much so that he embarrassingly had to explain to women what was going on. “My b- - -s never really regained their size. They’re kind of shriveled,” he sadly told one bedmate. In addition, steroids subjected him to a “dull throbbing pain” every time he had sex. After finally going for therapy, Clark kicked his habit. He writes: “The treacherous steroid path. I always thought I could handle it. But the drug handled me. Easily and completely . . . I was never big enough or strong enough for myself.” Clark, who was in the Meryl Streep movie “Death Becomes Her” and the Christian Bale flick “Equilibrium,” is a consultant on the new version of “American Gladiators.”
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