Rod StewartThe legendary music industry myth that a rock star had semen extracted from them in a stomach pump has apparently been solved by Rod Stewart in his new autobiography.
The story, which has been told in relation to a number of music stars, has been passed around the industry for years. It claims that a star, usually Stewart or Elton John, collapsed at a party and had to have their stomach pumped. As a result doctors extracted either 7 ounces, 1 gallon or 10 gallons of semen – sometimes even dog semen.
The myth has been attributed to a number of stars, including David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jon Bon Jovi (and his drummer) and more recently, Britney Spears, Fiona Apple and Alanis Morrissette.
In the book though, Stewart says it was all started by a disgruntled publicist – Tony Toon – who Stewart had fired.
“[Toon] fed the press a story in which, as a consequence of an evening spent orally servicing a gang of sailors in a gay bar in San Diego, I had been required to check into a hospital emergency room to have my stomach pumped.” Stewart continues, “I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor… And I have never had my stomach pumped, either of naval-issue semen nor of any other kind of semen.”
He did, however, put cocaine up his rectum as a way to protect his nasal passages.
“So we started buying anticold capsules from the chemist's, separating the two halves of the capsules, replacing their contents with a pinch of cocaine, and then taking the capsules anally, where, of course, the human body being a wonderful thing, they would dissolve effortlessly into the system.”
