Stallone Recounts Extreme Poverty and Survival Tactics in New Memoir 'The Steps'
Sylvester Stallone has detailed his pre-fame poverty in his new memoir, 'The Steps,' revealing that he showered in his clothes to save money on laundry and survived on raw eggs and cottage cheese. The 80-year-old actor described living in a cramped tenement in New York City with only $60 to his name, working odd jobs like cleaning lion cages at Central Park Zoo and cutting fish at a deli. Stallone stated that these extreme measures were necessary to pursue his acting dreams despite facing constant rejection and near-starvation, a narrative that aligns with the recent release of the biopic 'I Play Rocky.'
